Andrew Asbil
{{short description|Canadian Anglican bishop}}
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| honorific-prefix = The Right Reverend
| name = Andrew Asbil
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| title = 12th Bishop of Toronto
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| caption = Bishop Asbil in 2019
| church = Anglican Church of Canada
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| province = Ontario
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| diocese = Toronto
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| term = 2018–present
| predecessor = Colin Johnson
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| other_post = Dean of Toronto, 2016–2018
| ordination = 1989 (priesthood)
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| consecration = September 29, 2018
| consecrated_by = Colin Johnson
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| birth_date = {{Birth year and age|1961}}
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| nationality = Canadian
| religion = Anglican
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| parents = Walter Asbil
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| alma_mater = {{unbulleted list | University of Waterloo | Huron University College}}
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Andrew Asbil (born 1961) is a Canadian Anglican clergyman who has served as 12th bishop of Toronto since January 2019, succeeding Colin Johnson.{{cite web |url=http://www.toronto.anglican.ca/about-the-diocese/diocesan-bishop/ |title=Bishop of Toronto |work=Anglican Diocese of Toronto |accessdate=2020-11-23}} His father, Walter Asbil, was Bishop of Niagara from 1991 to 1997.{{cite web|url=https://www.toronto.anglican.ca/2018/06/09/andrew-asbil-elected-dioceses-coadjutor-bishop/|title=Andrew Asbil elected diocese's coadjutor bishop|website=The Diocese of Toronto|date=9 June 2018 |accessdate=2020-11-22}}
Life and career
Asbil attended the University of Waterloo and subsequently received his Master of Divinity degree in 1988 from Huron University College in London, Ontario. He was ordained to the priesthood in 1989 and then served the Anglican Church of Canada in the dioceses of Niagara and Toronto.
He was Dean of Toronto{{cite web|url=https://www.toronto.anglican.ca/about-the-diocese/corporate-information/synod/2018-electoral-synod/the-very-rev-andrew-j-asbil/|title=The Very Rev. Andrew J. Asbil|website=The Diocese of Toronto|accessdate=2020-11-22}} from 2016 until his consecration as bishop in September 2018.{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GLVOaUvwwOE|title=Consecration of Bishop Andrew Asbil|website=YouTube|date=October 2018 |accessdate=2020-11-22}} On January 1, 2019, he became the diocesan bishop and was installed at the Cathedral Church of St. James in Toronto on January 13, 2019.
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Category:21st-century Anglican Church of Canada bishops
Category:Anglican bishops of Toronto
Category:University of Western Ontario alumni
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