Frederick Wilkinson

Frederick Hugh Wilkinson MM (two bars), ED was the 7th Bishop of Toronto.

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

He began his ordained ministry as a curate at theChurch of the Ascension, Hamilton, Ontario. After this he was a professor at theCollege of Emmanuel and St. Chad, Saskatoon andthen Rector ofSt Stephen's Calgary . He was Sub-Dean of Christ Church Cathedral, Vancouver from 1932 to 1936. Further incumbencies at St James's Montreal and St Paul’sToronto followed 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.