John Feetham (bishop)
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John Oliver Feetham (28 January 1873 – 14 September 1947) was a long-serving Anglican bishop in Australia, who was aligned with the Anglo-Catholic tradition.[1][2][3] He was the Anglican Bishop of North Queensland from 1913 until his death in 1947.[4]
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.[4]
Feetham established a number of Anglican schools in North Queensland:[12]
- All Souls and St Gabriel's in Charters Towers
- St Anne's in Townsville (now the Cathedral School)
- St Mary's School in Herberton[12]
Later life
Feetham died on 14 September 1947[13] and his ashes were interred beneath the high altar at St James' Cathedral, Townsville.[14]
Feetham is commemorated in the Australian Anglican calendar on 15 September.[15]