Arthur Edward Burgett (186913 December 1942) was an

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bishop serving Alberta, Canada, in the first half of the 20th century. Burgett was born in Calcutta and educated at Radley and Trinity Hall, Cambridge, and ordained after a period of study at Ripon College Cuddesdon in 1898. After eight years in the Duke of Wellington's West Riding Regiment he served a curacy in Tottenham. Moving to Canada he was a missionary within the Anglican Diocese of Quebec and

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to the Bishop 1914. He was Rector of St Paul's, Quebec, and then

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of Assiniboia from 1918 to 1924 and of Edmonton North until his appointment to the episcopate as the second Bishop of Edmonton. Burgett was made a deacon in 1897 and ordained a priest in

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1898 – both times by Mandell Creighton, Bishop of London, at

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; He was consecrated a bishop on 13 January 1932 by Isaac Stringer, Arch bishop of Rupert's Land, at All Saints' Pro-Cathedral, Edmonton, and installed there at the same service.

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* 1869 births People educated at Radley College Alumni of Trinity Hall, Cambridge Duke of Wellington's Regiment officers Alumni of Ripon College Cuddesdon Anglican Church of Canada archdeacons 20th-century Anglican Church of Canada bishops Anglican bishops of Edmonton 1942 deaths {{Canada-Anglican-bishop-stub