David Somerville (bishop)

The Most Rev. Thomas David Somerville (November 11, 1915^[1] – July 25, 2011) was the sixth Bishop of New Westminster and eighth Metropolitan of British Columbia.^[2]

Somerville was born in Lytton, British Columbia and educated at the King George Secondary School and the University of British Columbia in Vancouver. Ordained in 1939, he had incumbencies in Princeton, Sardis and Vancouver. He was Dean of Residence at the Anglican Theological College of British Columbia then Coadjutor Bishop of New Westminster^[3] and then its diocesan^[4] and Metropolitan of British Columbia from 1975, retiring from both positions in 1980.

References

1. “Who was Who” 1897-2007 London, A & C Black, 2007 ISBN 978-0-19-954087-7
2. Metropolitans of British Columbia
3. Crockford's Clerical Directory 1975-76. London: Oxford University Press, 1976. ISBN 0-19-200008-X
4. Diocese of New Westminster: archbishops and bishops