Walter Barfoot

Walter Foster Barfoot (17 October 1894 – 28 June 1978) was a Canadian Anglican bishop.^[1]

Barfoot was educated at Wycliffe College^[2] and ordained in 1923. He was a tutor at the College of Emmanuel and St. Chad Saskatoon and then a professor at St John's College, Winnipeg.^[3] He became Bishop of Edmonton in 1941^[4] and Primate of All Canada a decade later. Elected Metropolitan of Rupert's Land in 1953.^[5] He retired in 1959 and died in 1978.

References

1. Primates of the Anglican Church of Canada
2. Manitoba Historical Society
3. "Who was Who" 1897-2007 London, A & C Black, 2007 ISBN 978-0-19-954087-7
4. Crockford's Clerical Directory1947-48 Oxford, OUP, 1947
5. The Times, 9 October 1953; pg. 7; Issue 52748; col F, News in Brief

Religious titles
Preceded by Arthur Burgett	Bishop of Edmonton, Canada 1941–1953	Succeeded by Howard Clark
Preceded by Louis Sherman	Metropolitan of Rupert's Land 1951–1959
Preceded by Frederick Kingston	Primate of the Anglican Church of Canada 1951–1959