Frederick Wilkinson

For the British Army officer, see Frederick Green Wilkinson.

Frederick Hugh Wilkinson MM (two bars), ED (1896 – 1980) was the 7th Bishop of Toronto.^[1]

Life and ministry

Wilkinson was born in 1896^[2] into an ecclesiastical family^[3] and educated at the University of Toronto. He was ordained in 1925.

He began his ordained ministry as a curate at the Church of the Ascension, Hamilton, Ontario.^[4] After this he was a professor at the College of Emmanuel and St. Chad, Saskatoon and then Rector of St Stephen's Calgary . He was Sub-Dean of Christ Church Cathedral, Vancouver from 1932 to 1936.^[5] Further incumbencies at St James's Montreal and St Paul's Toronto followed^[6] before he became a coadjutor bishop of the Diocese of Toronto in 1953 and its diocesan bishop in 1955. He served until 1966 and died in 1980.^[7]