John Feetham (bishop)

John Oliver Feetham (28 January 1873 – 14 September 1947) was a long-serving^[1] Anglican bishop^[2] in Australia who was aligned with the Anglo-Catholic tradition.^[3]

Early life

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.^[4] He was educated at Marlborough College and Trinity Hall, Cambridge.^[5][6]

Religious life

Feetham was ordained in 1899.^[7] After a curacy at St Simon Zelotes, Bethnal Green,^[8] he was Principal^[9] of the Brotherhood of the Good Shepherd (one of the Australian Bush Brotherhoods).^[10] In 1913 he was ordained to the episcopate as the fourth Bishop of North Queensland.^[11]

Later life

Feetham died on 14 September 1947^[12] and his ashes were interred beneath the high altar at St James' Cathedral, Townsville.^[13]

Feetham is commemorated in the Australian Anglican calendar on 15 September.

References

1. "Bishop's Lodge (entry 600883)". Queensland Heritage Register. Queensland Heritage Council. Retrieved 13 July 2015.
2. James Cook University of North Queensland
3. Anglo-Catholicism in Australia
4. Who was Who 1987-1990: London, A & C Black, 1991 ISBN 0-7136-3457-X
5. "Feetham, John Oliver (FTN892JO)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
6. The Times, 14 December 1891 p. 12, "University Intelligence Oxford, Dec. 12"
7. The Clergy List, Clerical Guide and Ecclesiastical Directory, London, John Phillips, 1900
8. Genuki
9. ADB on-line
10. NLA Catalogue
11. "Ecclesiastical Intelligence. New Bishop Of North Queensland", The Times 1 November 1912, p. 4.
12. "Obituary Bishop Of North Queensland", The Times 16 September 1947, p. 6
13. Cathedral website