Acton Windeyer SillitoePhoto of Sillitoe (also Wyndeyer; 12 July 18409 June 1894)NPG detailsFind a grave was the first Bishop of New Westminster.
Sillitoe was born in Sydney and educated at Pembroke College, CambridgeAlumni Cantabrigienses and ordained in the Church of England: he was made deacon on 21 February 1869 by George Selwyn (Bishop of Lichfield) at St Peter's Church, Wolverhampton and ordained priest by Selwyn in 1870."Crockford's Clerical Directory 1985" p1267: London; Horace Cox; 1885 After curacies at Brierley Hill and Wolverhampton he was the incumbent at Ellenbrook from 1873 to 1876. After this he was a chaplain at Geneva then Darmstadt. He was consecrated a bishop 1 November 1879 by Archibald Campbell Tait, Archbishop of Canterbury at Croydon Parish Church and went to British Columbia (Canada) to serve as the first Bishop of New Westminster; he also became a Doctor of Divinity (DD).
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