John Barry Curtis is a retired Anglican

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. Born on 19 June 1933, he was educated at

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and

ordained Ordination is the process by which individuals are consecrated, that is, set apart and elevated from the laity class to the clergy, who are thus then authorized (usually by the denominational hierarchy composed of other clergy) to perform ...

after a period of study at

Chichester Theological College Chichester Theological College (1838–1994) was an Anglican theological college for the Diocese of Chichester in Sussex, England. Its churchmanship was high church and Anglo-Catholic. History Chichester Theological College college was foun ...

in 1959. Crockford's Clerical Directory1975-76 Lambeth, Church House, 1975 He began his ordained ministry as a curate in Pembroke, Ontario. After this he held incumbencies in

Kanata, Ontario Kanata (, ) is a suburb of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. It is located about west of the city's downtown core. As of 2021, Kanata had an urban population of 137,118. Before it was amalgamated into Ottawa in 2001, it was one of the fastest-growing ...

, Buckingham, Quebec,

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and

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. He became Bishop of Calgary and Metropolitan of

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in 1994, retiring from both posts in 1999.

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