Dean of Toronto

The Dean of Toronto is an Anglican dean in the Anglican Diocese of Toronto of the Ecclesiastical Province of Ontario, based at the Cathedral Church of St. James in Toronto. The incumbent is also Rector of St. James Cathedral.

The incumbents have been:[1]

Tenure Incumbent Notes
1867–1882Henry James Grasett (1808–1882)First Dean of Toronto, and father of Lieutenant-Colonel H. J. Grasett
1882–1937No appointment of Dean – duties usually undertaken by Rector. In 1883, the yet-to-be-built Cathedral of St. Alban-the-Martyr became by statute the first legal Cathedral of the Diocese of Toronto. The Church of St. James legally became the Cathedral in 1935; having been a parish church since the Parish's inception in 1797.
1937–1961Charles Edward Riley (1883–1972)
1961–1973Walter Joseph Gilling (1906–1973)
1974–1986Hugh Vernon Stiff (1916–1995)
1987–1994Sheldon Duncan Abraham
1994–2016Douglas StouteHusband of Mary Lou Benotto of the Court of Appeal for Ontario
2016–presentAndrew AsbilSon of Walter Asbil, former Bishop of Niagara

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