John Feetham (bishop)
John Oliver Feetham (28 January 1873 – 14 September 1947) was a long-serving Anglican bishop in Australia, who was aligned with the Anglo-Catholic tradition.[1][2][3] He was the Anglican Bishop of North Queensland from 1913 until his death in 1947. [4]
Early life Edit
Feetham was born into an ecclesiastical family, his father was the Reverend William Feetham, Rural Dean of Raglan, Monmouthshire and his mother the daughter of an archdeacon.[5] He was educated at Marlborough College and Trinity Hall, Cambridge.[6][7]
Religious life Edit
Feetham was ordained in 1899.[8] After a curacy at St Simon Zelotes, Bethnal Green,[9] he was Principal[10] of the Brotherhood of the Good Shepherd (one of the Australian Bush Brotherhoods).[11] In 1913 he was ordained to the episcopate as the fourth Bishop of North Queensland.[4]
Feetham established a number of Anglican schools in North Queensland:[12]
- All Souls and St Gabriel's in Charters Towers
- St Anne's in Townsville (now the Cathedral School)
- St Mary's School in Herberton[12]
Later life Edit
Feetham died on 14 September 1947[13] and his ashes were interred beneath the high altar at St James' Cathedral, Townsville.[14]
Feetham is commemorated in the Australian Anglican calendar on 15 September.[15]
References Edit
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- ^ "Feetham, John Oliver (FTN892JO)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
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- ^ a b Moore, Alison (1981). "Feetham, John Oliver (1873–1947)". Australian Dictionary of Biography. from the original on 8 April 2018. Retrieved 3 April 2017.
- ^ "Obituary Bishop Of North Queensland", The Times 16 September 1947, p. 6
- ^ . St James' Cathedral, Townsville Queensland Australia. Archived from the original on 7 March 2016. Retrieved 16 July 2022.
- ^ "Who was 'The Blessed' Bishop John Oliver Feetham?". from the original on 17 July 2022. Retrieved 17 July 2022.