William Cyprian Pinkham was the second Anglican Bishop of Saskatchewan

Anglican Diocese of Saskatchewan

The Diocese of Saskatchewan is a diocese of the Ecclesiastical Province of Rupert's Land of the Anglican Church of Canada formed in 1874. Its headquarters are in Prince Albert, Saskatchewan. The diocese of Saskatoon was split off from it in 1933....

. He then became the first Bishop of Calgary

Anglican Diocese of Calgary

The Anglican Diocese of Calgary is a diocese of the Ecclesiastical Province of Rupert's Land of the Anglican Church of Canada, located in the southern part of the civil province of Alberta. It was established in 1888...

 when the diocese

Diocese

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 was divided in 1903.

Pinkham was born in St John's, Newfoundland

St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador

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 and educated at St Augustine's College, Canterbury

St Augustine's College, Canterbury

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. He was ordained in 1868 and first position was as the incumbent

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 of St James’s Manitoba

Manitoba

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. After this he was Superintendent

Superintendent (education)

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 of Education for the Protestant Public Schools of Manitoba and finally, before his ordination to the episcopate, the Archdeacon

Archdeacon

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of Manitoba.

Pinkham retired in 1926 and died two years later.