John Timothy Frame (1930 – 2017)
John Frame was born in Toronto. He received an undergraduate degree from the University of Toronto and a Master of Divinity at Trinity College in Toronto.1) His first post was in 1957 at Burns Lake, British Columbia a parish that covered 12,000 square miles. In 1968, Frame succeeded Bishop Henry H. Marsh as Bishop of the Yukon, a diocese covering 200,000 square miles. At the time Frame was believed to be the youngest Anglican bishop in Canada. Marsh was sixty-eight when he retired.2)
In 1980, Bishop Frame resigned his Yukon position to become the rector of Christ Church Cathedral in Victoria and dean of the diocese of British Columbia [Dean of Columbia].3)
Bishop Frame was conservative and opposed the ordination of women to the priesthood. Archbishop Caleb Lawrence described him as a controversial but important figure in the Anglican Church. Bishop Frame’s son-in-law Archbishop John Privett, diocesan bishop of Kootenay and metropolitan of the ecclesiastical province of British Columbia and Yukon, remembered him as a man of strong views and rigorous theology.4)