Tom Collings | |
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| 7th Bishop of Keewatin | |
| Church | Anglican Church of Canada |
| Province | Rupert's Land |
| Diocese | Keewatin |
| In office | 1991–1996 |
| Predecessor | James Allan |
| Successor | Gordon Beardy |
| Orders | |
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| Consecration | 1991 |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 2 December 1938 Abergavenny, Wales |
| Died | 8 July 2014 (aged 75) Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada |
| Buried | Kaleida, Manitoba, Canada |
| Denomination | Anglicanism |
| Spouse | Julie Black Collings (m. c. 1965)[1][2] |
| Alma mater | |
Thomas William Ralph Collings (2 December 1938 – 8 July 2014), known as Tom Collings, was a British-born Canadian Anglican bishop. He served as the seventh Bishop of Keewatin from 1991 to 1996.
Born in Wales, Collings was educated at the University of Oxford in England and Union Theological Seminary in the United States before returning to England to study at the University of Essex. He taught mathematics at a number of British universities and spent several years as deputy director of a research unit at University of Strathclyde. Collings was ordained to the diaconate in the Scotland in 1979 and to the presbyterate in the Canada in 1980. He first served as an assistant priest at St John's Cathedral in Winnipeg, Manitoba, and went on to serve a variety of Manitoban parishes, most of which had a significant indigenous population.
Collings became Bishop of Keewatin in 1991 and served in that role in the Kenora, Ontario–based diocese until 1996.