Terence Edward Finlay (May 19, 1937 – March 20, 2017) was a

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bishop. He served as

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and

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from 2000 to 2004. He graduated from

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in 1959, where he became a member of the

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fraternity. He became a priest in the

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. He was consecrated as a bishop in 1986 and appointed area bishop of the Trent-Durham episcopal area. He was elected co-adjutor bishop of Toronto in 1987 and installed as the 10th Bishop of Toronto in 1989. He became the 16th

and

in October 2000. He retired in 2004.

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awarded him an Honorary Senior Fellowship in 1992.

at Western University bestowed him with its "Alumni Award of Distinction" in 2006. In 1992 he dismissed the Reverend James Ferry for maintaining a homosexual relationship, while saying that the church had maintained "a conspiracy of silence" regarding the issue of homosexuality and the priesthood. Finlay was disciplined by the church body for marrying a same-sex lesbian couple in 2006. He commented that he agreed with the principle of allowing

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s, and regretted his actions in 1992.

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