Tony Burton (bishop)
Anthony Burton is the former bishop of Saskatchewan, and since 2008, the current Rector of the Church of the Incarnation in Dallas, Texas.
He was born and raised in Ottawa, Canada, and studied at was educated at University of Toronto, Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada and University of Oxford[1].
He was ordained in the Diocese of Nova Scotia, where he served in two parishes on Cape Breton Island. In 1991 he moved to Prince Albert, Saskatchewan, where he served as Dean and Rector of St. Alban’s Cathedral before being elected, in 1993, Bishop of the Diocese of Saskatchewan. At the time of his election in 1993, Bishop Anthony Burton was the youngest bishop in the world-wide Anglican Communion, and the youngest Canadian bishop of the twentieth century. He spent a term as Chair of the Council of the North (representing a third of Canada's dioceses and 85% of its geography); he also served as Co-Chair of the Anglican-Roman Catholic Dialogue, and as the Episcopal Visitor to the South American Mission Society, and as patron or officer of a variety of institutions, societies and organizations. He was a member of the executive committee of General Synod, the Council of General Synod of the Anglican Church of Canada, and on the Council's planning committee.
He is currently Chairman of the Board of Eliot House, a member of the The Living Church Foundation, the Steering Committee of the Communion Partner Rectors, and the Advisory Committee of the Anglican Communion Institute.
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