David Crawley (bishop)

David Perry Crawley was Archbishop of Kootenay and Metropolitan of British Columbia and Yukon from 1994 to 2004.

He was ordained in 1961 [3] and was the incumbent at St Thomas', Sherwood Park until 1966.

He was Canon Missioner at All Saints Cathedral, Edmonton from 1967 until 1970 and Rector of St Matthew's, Winnipeg from 1971 until 1977.

In 1985 he became the twelfth rector of St. Paul's, Vancouver where he sought to heal the relationship between the parish and the local LGBT community and to minister to the members of that community who were at the time dealing with the AIDS crisis.

[4] In 1990 he resigned his position at St Paul's on being elected to the episcopate (as Bishop of Kootenay) in 1990.