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Roger Briggs

1936 – 2024

English-born Canadian priest

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About Roger Briggs

Lived 1936 – 2024 (aged 87–88).

Roger Edward Briggs (1936 – June 27, 2024) was a British-Canadian Anglican priest. He spent most of his career in the Anglican Church of Canada as a missionary in the Diocese of the Arctic, including service as dean of the Arctic and rector of St. Jude's Cathedral in Iqaluit.

Early life and education Briggs was born in Horsforth, West Yorkshire, in 1936. He studied at the London College of Divinity, graduating in 1961 and migrating to Canada to serve as a missionary in the Arctic. He married Surrey-born Carole Wagstaff in 1962.

Clergy career Briggs began his ordained ministry in Great Whale River, Quebec, a community of Cree and Inuit on Hudson Bay. From 1974 to 1978, he was rector of Holy Trinity Church in Yellowknife. As rector of All Saints, Sandy Hill, he helped establish a day hospice ministry. In 1995, Briggs accepted an offer to return to the Arctic as dean and rector of St. Jude's Cathedral in Iqaluit. In 2002, Briggs was awarded a Queen Elizabeth II Golden Jubilee Medal for "outstanding and exemplary contributions to their communities or to Canada as a whole."

Briggs died on June 27, 2024, in Comox, British Columbia.

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1936
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Died
2024

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english-born Canadian priest (1936–2024)

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Roger Briggs was born in 1936.

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Sources & further reading

· Wikipedia: Roger Briggs

· Wikidata: Q138808703

· DBpedia: Roger Briggs (priest)

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