15 Facts About Tom Collings

Thomas William Ralph Collings, known as Tom Collings, was a British-born Canadian Anglican bishop.

Tom Collings served as the seventh Bishop of Keewatin from 1991 to 1996.

Tom Collings taught mathematics at a number of British universities and spent several years as deputy director of a research unit at University of Strathclyde.

Tom Collings was ordained to the diaconate in the Scotland in 1979 and to the presbyterate in the Canada in 1980.

Tom Collings 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.

Tom Collings was born on 2 December 1938 in Abergavenny, Wales.

Tom Collings was raised attending his father's Baptist Sunday school and his mother's Anglican church.

Tom Collings was educated at Monmouth School before moving to England to attend the University of Oxford.

In 1963, Tom Collings was awarded a Harkness Fellowship and moved to New York City to attend Union Theological Seminary.

Tom Collings went on to teach mathematics at North East London Polytechnic, the University of Strathclyde, and Open University.

Tom Collings served for several years as the deputy director for the Health Services Operations Research Unit at the University of Strathclyde.

Tom Collings was ordained to the diaconate in the Scottish Episcopal Church in 1979 and to the presbyterate in the Anglican Church of Canada in 1980.

Until his election to the episcopacy in 1991, Tom Collings had served as the Dean of Theology of St John's College at the University of Manitoba, as well as the coordinator of their native theological education program and the director of their lay education program.

Tom Collings was a non-stipendiary priest-in-charge of St Helen's in Winnipeg in 1987.

Tom Collings died on 8 July 2014 in Winnipeg and was buried in St Mary's-St Alban's Cemetery in Kaleida, Manitoba.