Barry Hollowell

Barry Craig Bates Hollowell (April 14, 1948 – August 17, 2016)[1] was an Anglican bishop in Canada. He was the seventh Bishop of Calgary.[2]

The Right Reverend Barry Hollowell
Bishop of Calgary
Church	Anglican Church of Canada
In office	1999-2005
Predecessor	Barry Curtis
Successor	Derek Hoskin
Orders
Ordination	1974
Consecration	1999
Personal details
Born	April 14, 1948 Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Died	August 17, 2016 (aged 68) Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Spouse	Linda Barry-Hollowell (d. 2008) Kevin Huang
Children	3
Alma mater	Harvard University

Life

Born in Boston, Massachusetts[3] and educated at Valparaiso University after which he studied theology in the United Kingdom at Cambridge University and Westcott House. He then finished an M.Div. degree at the Episcopal Theological School (Cambridge, Massachusetts). He was ordained a priest in 1974.[4] He was a deacon at All Saints' Chelmsford, Massachusetts and then assistant curate at Christ Church Cathedral, Fredericton, New Brunswick. He was then Anglican chaplain at the University of New Brunswick, rector of St George's St Catharines and, before his ordination to the episcopate, Archdeacon of Lincoln, Ontario. He resigned from the position of diocesan bishop of the Diocese of Calgary in 2005. Having previously completed master's degrees in both pastoral counselling (Saint Paul University in Ottawa) and in psychology (University of New Brunswick), he pursued doctoral studies and received a PhD in counselling psychology from the University of Calgary in 2012. His dissertation was entitled "The Experience of Spirituality in the Lives of Anglican Gay Men".

References

1. Obituary in the Anglican Journal, 2 September 2016
2. Canadian Anglican Archived 2011-03-16 at the Wayback Machine
3. Who's Who 2008: London, A & C Black, 2008 ISBN 978-0-7136-8555-8
4. Crockford's Clerical Directory1975-76 Lambeth, Church House, 1975 ISBN 0-19-200008-X