Barry Hollowell

Born in Boston, Massachusetts[4] and educated at Valparaiso University after which he studied theology in the United Kingdom at Cambridge University and Westcott House. He then finished an M.Div. degree at the Episcopal Theological School (Cambridge, Massachusetts). He was ordained a priest in 1974.[5] He was a deacon at All Saints' Chelmsford, Massachusetts and then assistant curate at Christ Church Cathedral, Fredericton, New Brunswick. He was then Anglican chaplain at the University of New Brunswick, rector of St George's St Catharines and, before his ordination to the episcopate, Archdeacon of Lincoln, Ontario. He resigned from the position of diocesan bishop of the Diocese of Calgary in 2005. Having previously completed master's degrees in both pastoral counselling (Saint Paul University in Ottawa) and in psychology (University of New Brunswick), he pursued doctoral studies and received a PhD in counselling psychology from the University of Calgary in 2012. His dissertation was entitled "The Experience of Spirituality in the Lives of Anglican Gay Men".