Arthur Peters (bishop)

{{short description|Anglican bishop}} ''' Arthur Gordon Peters ''' (born 21 December 1935) is a Canadian Anglican bishop.<ref>[http://bishop.blogsome.com/category/nova-scotia/ Canadian Anglican Bishops] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110708021307/http://bishop.blogsome.com/category/nova-scotia/ |date=2011-07-08 }}</ref>

Bishop Peters was educated at the University of King's College<ref>"Who was Who"1897-1990 London, A & C Black, 1991, {{ISBN|0-7136-3457-X}}</ref> and ordained deacon in 1963.<ref>''Crockford's Clerical Directory 1975-76'' London: Oxford University Press, 1976 {{ISBN|0-19-200008-X}}</ref> After a curacy at Waverly he became Rector of Weymouth. He held further incumbencies at Annapolis-Granville and Christ Church, Sydney before being elected bishop coadjutor of Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island in 1982. Two years later he succeeded as diocesan bishop. In 1997, the Bishops of the Ecclesiastical Province of Canada elected him as their metropolitan archbishop and he assumed the title Archbishop of Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island Metropolitan of the Ecclesiastical Province of Canada, retiring in 2002.

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{{s-start}} {{s-rel|ac}} {{s-bef|before=Leonard Fraser Hatfield}} {{s-ttl|title=Bishop of Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island|years=1984 – 2002}} {{s-aft|after=Fred Hiltz}} {{s-bef|before=Sidney Stewart Payne}} {{s-ttl|title=Metropolitan of Canada|years=1997 – 2002}} {{s-aft|after=Andrew Sandford Hutchison}} {{end}}

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