Ronald Curry Ferris (b. 1945)

Ron Ferris went to the University of Western Ontario and has doctorates in Sacred Theology, Ministry and Theology.1) Ferris arrived in Carcross in 1966 when he and his wife worked as church volunteers teaching Sunday school.2) Margaret Marsh says Ferris was a Principal of the Chooutla school and Jan, his wife, was a registered nursing assistant.3) In 1970, Ferris moved to Old Crow where he was an Anglican minister until 1972.4)

Ronald Ferris was elected the 9th Bishop of the Yukon in 1980. He moved to Whitehorse with his wife Jan and their five children in 1981. He was consecrated in March of that year.5) In 2004, Ferris had served as an Anglican bishop for twenty-three years and worked in all parts of Canada. He served as Yukon's bishop for fourteen years.6)

Ferris became the Bishop of Algoma in 1995 and left the Anglican Church of Canada in September 2008. He disapproved of the pro-homosexuality stance taken by some dioceses of the Anglican Church. He became the bishop of the Anglican Church of the Southern Cone of America, and an assisting bishop of the Anglican Network in Canada, in 2009.7)

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“Ron Ferris,” Wikipedia, 2018 website: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_Ferris
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Kelly-Anne Riess, “Ex-Yukon bishop came in second in vote.” The Whitehorse Star (Whitehorse), 4 June 2004.
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Emily-Jane Hills Oxford, Letters from Inside: The Notes and Nuggets of Margaret Marsh. Baico Publishing Consultants Inc., 2006: 109.
5)
Manuscript “Summery of the Anglican Church in Yukon” by Archdeacon Allan Haldenby of Dawson in 1957 and updated by Lee Sax and Bishop Ronald Ferris in 1991.