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

Life

Born in Boston, Massachusetts and educated at

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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. Crockford's Clerical Directory1975-76 Lambeth, Church House, 1975 He was a

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at All Saints'

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and then

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at Christ Church Cathedral, Fredericton, New Brunswick. He was then

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at the

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of St George's

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and, before his ordination to the

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. 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

1948 births Valparaiso University alumni Anglican archdeacons in North America 20th-century Anglican Church of Canada bishops Anglican bishops of Calgary 21st-century Anglican Church of Canada bishops LGBT Anglican bishops 2016 deaths Alumni of Westcott House, Cambridge 21st-century Canadian LGBT people Harvard Divinity School alumni Alumni of the University of Cambridge Saint Paul University alumni University of New Brunswick alumni University of Calgary alumni {{Canada-Anglican-bishop-stub