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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
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
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]
Later life
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
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"Bishop's Lodge (entry 600883)".
Queensland Heritage Register. Queensland Heritage Council. Retrieved 13 July 2015.
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"Anglo-Catholicism in Australia" (PDF).
Archived (PDF) from the original on 6 June 2011. Retrieved 27 September 2009.
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"James Cook University of North Queensland".
Archived from the original on 17 July 2022. Retrieved 27 September 2009.
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b "Ecclesiastical Intelligence. New Bishop Of North Queensland",
The Times 1 November 1912, p. 4.
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Who was Who 1987-1990: London,
A & C Black, 1991
ISBN
0-7136-3457-X
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"Feetham, John Oliver (FTN892JO)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
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The Times, 14 December 1891 p. 12, "University Intelligence Oxford, Dec. 12"
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^ The Clergy List, Clerical Guide and Ecclesiastical Directory, London, John Phillips, 1900
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"Genuki".
Archived from the original on 5 May 2010. Retrieved 27 September 2009.
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"ADB on-line".
Archived from the original on 5 March 2011. Retrieved 27 September 2009.
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"NLA Catalogue".
Archived from the original on 14 June 2011. Retrieved 27 September 2009.
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a
b Moore, Alison (1981).
"John Oliver Feetham (1873–1947)".
Australian Dictionary of Biography. Vol. 8. Canberra: National Centre of Biography,
Australian National University.
ISBN
978-0-522-84459-7.
ISSN
1833-7538.
OCLC
70677943. Retrieved 3 April 2017.
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^ "Obituary Bishop Of North Queensland",
The Times 16 September 1947, p. 6
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"St James' Cathedral: Tour". St James' Cathedral, Townsville Queensland Australia. Archived from
the original on 7 March 2016. Retrieved 16 July 2022.
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"Who was 'The Blessed' Bishop John Oliver Feetham?".
Archived from the original on 17 July 2022. Retrieved 17 July 2022.
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