Dean of Toronto

The Dean of Toronto is an Anglican dean in the Diocese of Toronto of the Ecclesiastical Province of Ontario, based at the Cathedral Church of St. James in downtown Toronto, Ontario. The incumbent is also Rector of St. James Cathedral.

The incumbents have been:[1]

Tenure	Incumbent	Notes
1867–1882	Henry James Grasett (1808–1882)	First Dean of Toronto, and father of Lieutenant-Colonel H. J. Grasett
1882–1937	No appointment of Dean – duties usually undertaken by Rector. In 1883, the yet-to-be-built Cathedral of St. Alban-the-Martyr became by statute the first legal cathedral of the Diocese of Toronto. The Church of St. James legally became the cathedral in 1935, having been a parish church since the parish's inception in 1797.
1937–1961	Charles Edward Riley (1883–1972)
1961–1973	Walter Joseph Gilling (1906–1973)
1974–1986	Hugh Vernon Stiff (1916–1995)
1987–1994	Sheldon Duncan Abraham
1994–2016	Douglas Stoute	Husband of the Hon. Mary Lou Benotto of the Court of Appeal for Ontario
2016–2018	Andrew Asbil[2]	Became the 12th Bishop of Toronto in 2019
2019–present	Stephen Vail[3]	Former Archdeacon of Trent-Durham[4]

References

1. "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2016-03-04. Retrieved 2014-09-05.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
2. "Bishop of Toronto". Anglican Diocese of Toronto. Retrieved 2018-11-23.
3. "Clergy". Cathedral Church of St. James. Retrieved 2019-08-04.
4. "Stephen Vail appointed Rector of St. James Cathedral and Dean of Toronto". Cathedral Church of St. James. Retrieved 2019-08-24.