David Greenwood (bishop)
{{Short description|Canadian Anglican bishop (born 1963)}}
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| honorific-prefix = The Right Reverend
| name = David Greenwood
| title = Bishop of Athabasca
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| church = Anglican Church of Canada
| province = Northern Lights
| diocese = Athabasca
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| term = Since 2020
| predecessor = Fraser Lawton
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| ordination = 2004 (diaconate)
2015 (priesthood)
| consecration = 21 February 2020
| consecrated_by = Greg Kerr-Wilson
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| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1963|09|14|df=y}}
| birth_place = Camrose, Alberta, Canada
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David Adrian Greenwood (born 14 September 1963) is a Canadian Anglican bishop and IT professional. Since 2020 he has been bishop of the Diocese of Athabasca in northern Alberta.
Biography
Greenwood was born in Camrose, Alberta, in 1963. He married Benita at age 19, and they had four children and eventually 14 grandchildren.{{cite web |title=Meet Our Bishop |url=https://athdio.ca/pages/bishop |publisher=Diocese of Athabasca |access-date=10 March 2025}} In 1988, the Greenwoods moved to Fort McMurray, where David spent 30 years working in information technology for Syncrude Canada as a programmer, systems designer and architect, and supervisor.{{cite news |last1=Kidd |first1=Joelle |title=Athabasca elects new bishop |url=https://anglicanjournal.com/athabasca-elects-new-bishop/ |access-date=10 March 2025 |work=Anglican Journal |date=21 November 2019}}
After discerning a call to ministry, Greenwood began studying for ordination in the 1990s. In 2004, he was ordained as a vocational deacon. Starting in 2012, he discerned a call to the priesthood and was ordained to that order in 2015 at St. James' Cathedral in Peace River. Prior to his election as bishop in November 2019, Greenwood was priest in charge of All Saints' Church in Athabasca. He was consecrated as a bishop on 21 February 2020 in at St. James' Cathedral.{{cite news |title=Episcopal Electoral Synod names All Saints’ Athabasca priest David Greenwood as Bishop-elect |url=https://dq5pwpg1q8ru0.cloudfront.net/2020/10/15/09/13/33/27bbe793-3e6a-477a-bf0b-55886fc62154/20__January_Messenger_Good_web.pdf |access-date=10 March 2025 |work=The Messenger |date=January 2020}}
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Category:Anglican bishops of Athabasca
Category:21st-century Anglican Church of Canada bishops
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