Hugh Stiff

{{Short description|Canadian bishop (1916–1995)}} {{Infobox person | name = Hugh Vernon Stiff | honorific_prefix = The Right Reverend | birth_date = {{birth date|1916|9|15|df=y}} | death_date = {{death date and age|1995|9|24|1916|9|15|df=y}} | education = University of Toronto | occupation = Clergyman }}

'''Hugh Vernon Stiff''' (1916–1995) was a Canadian Anglican bishop in the 20th century.<ref>{{cite web|url= http://www.houseofnames.com/xq/asp.fc/qx/stiff-family-crest.htm|title= House of Names}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://bishop.blogsome.com/2007/11/22/keewatin/ |title=Canadian Bishops |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110708021008/http://bishop.blogsome.com/2007/11/22/keewatin/ |archivedate=2011-07-08 }}</ref>

==Life and career== Stiff was born on 15 September 1916<ref>Who was Who 1987-1990: London, A & C Black, 1991 {{ISBN|0-7136-3457-X}}</ref> and educated at the University of Toronto. He was a parishioner of the Church of St. Mary Magdalene in Toronto. He was ordained in 1953<ref>''Crockford's Clerical Directory 1975-76'' London: Oxford University Press, 1976 {{ISBN|0-19-200008-X}}</ref> and began his ordained ministry as missioner at Lintlaw, Saskatchewan. After this, he was Rector of All Saints' Saskatchewan, then Dean of Calgary.<ref>{{cite web|url= http://ww2.glenbow.org/search/archivesPhotosResults.aspx?XC=/search/archivesPhotosResults.aspx&TN=IMAGEBAN&AC=QBE_QUERY&RF=WebResults&DL=0&RL=0&NP=255&MF=WPEngMsg.ini&MR=10&QB0=AND&QF0=File+number&QI0=NA-2746-10&DF=WebResultsDetails|title= Glenbow Museum}}</ref>

In 1969, he became Bishop of Keewatin.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.dioceseofkeewatin.ca/about_us |title=Diocese of Keewatin |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20100423004552/http://www.dioceseofkeewatin.ca/about_us |archivedate=2010-04-23 }}</ref> In 1974, he became Dean of Toronto and Rector of St. James Cathedral, until his retirement in 1986. Stiff died on 24 September 1995.

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