About Frederick Crabb
Lived 1915 – 2007 (aged 91–92). Frederick Crabb was an anglican priest.
Frederick Hugh Wright Crabb (24 April 1915 - 24 February 2007) was an Anglican bishop and missionary in the 20th century.
He was born in Luppitt, Devon, on 24 April 1915, as the third of six children in a farming family. He studied Theology at the University of London and was ordained in 1939. His first posts were curacies in Teignmouth and Plymouth.
In 1942, the Church Missionary Society send him to Sudan as a missionary He then held two incumbencies in Calgary before being appointed Bishop of Athabasca in 1975. He was also Metropolitan of Rupert's Land from 1977 and retired in 1983.
Crabb died on 24 February 2007.
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