Acton Windeyer Sillitoe[1] (also Wyndeyer; 12 July 1840[2] – 9 June 1894)[3][4] was the first Bishop of New Westminster.
Sillitoe was born in Sydney[2] and educated at Pembroke College, Cambridge[5] and ordained in the Church of England: he was made deacon on 21 February 1869 by George Selwyn (Bishop of Lichfield) at St Peter's Church, Wolverhampton[6] and ordained priest by Selwyn in 1870.
[7][8] After curacies at Brierley Hill and Wolverhampton he was the incumbent at Ellenbrook from 1873 to 1876.
He was consecrated a bishop 1 November 1879 by Archibald Campbell Tait, Archbishop of Canterbury at Croydon Parish Church[2] and went to British Columbia (Canada) to serve as the first Bishop of New Westminster; he also became a Doctor of Divinity (DD).
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