John Feetham (bishop)

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St John Oliver Feetham (1873-1947), Anglican Bishop of North Queensland from 1913 to 1947.

Saint John Oliver Feetham (28 January 1873 – 14 September 1947) was a long-serving[1] Anglican bishop[2] in Australia[3] who was aligned with the Anglo-Catholic tradition.[4] He is recognised as a saint in the Anglican Church of Australia.

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.[12]

Feetham established a number of Anglican schools in North Queensland; All Souls and St Gabriel's in Charters Towers, St Anne's in Townsville and St Mary's in Herberton.[13]

Later life, death and relics[]

Feetham died on 14 September 1947[14] and his ashes, being holy relics, are interred beneath the high altar at St James' Cathedral, Townsville.[15]

Feetham is commemorated in the Australian Anglican calendar. His feast day, known throughout the Diocese of North Queensland as 'Feetham-mass' is celebrated on 15 September.

The Anglican Church in Cardwell, Queensland, is under Feetham's patronage, and was consecrated as 'John Oliver Feetham Church'.

References[]

  1. ^ "Bishop's Lodge (entry 600883)". Queensland Heritage Register. Queensland Heritage Council. Retrieved 13 July 2015.
  2. ^ "James Cook University of North Queensland". Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  3. ^ Malden Richard (ed) (1920). Crockford's Clerical Directory for 1920 (51st edn). London: The Field Press. p. 1232.
  4. ^ Anglo-Catholicism in Australia
  5. ^ Who was Who 1987-1990: London, A & C Black, 1991 ISBN 0-7136-3457-X
  6. ^ "Feetham, John Oliver (FTN892JO)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
  7. ^ The Times, 14 December 1891 p. 12, "University Intelligence Oxford, Dec. 12"
  8. ^ The Clergy List, Clerical Guide and Ecclesiastical Directory, London, John Phillips, 1900
  9. ^ Genuki
  10. ^ ADB on-line
  11. ^ NLA Catalogue
  12. ^ "Ecclesiastical Intelligence. New Bishop Of North Queensland", The Times 1 November 1912, p. 4.
  13. ^ Moore, Alison (1981). "Feetham, John Oliver (1873–1947)". Australian Dictionary of Biography. Retrieved 3 April 2017.
  14. ^ "Obituary Bishop Of North Queensland", The Times 16 September 1947, p. 6
  15. ^ Cathedral website
Anglican Communion titles
Preceded by
George Horsfall Frodsham 		Bishop of North Queensland
1913 –1947 		Succeeded by
Wilfrid Bernard Belcher


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