Walter Gilling

Walter Joseph Gilling, D.D. (23 June 1906-21 July 1993)[1] was a Canadian Anglican priest in the first two thirds of the 20th century.[2]

Gilling was educated at Trinity College, Toronto. Ordained in 1936, his first posts were curacies in Toronto. He was Chaplain at his old college from 1937 to 1939; then a Chaplain in the Canadian Army Service Corps until 1946. He was Rector of St Luke, Peterborough, Ontario from 1946 to 1956; and its Archdeacon from 1953 to 1956 He was then Archdeacon without territorial jurisdiction from 1956 to 1961; and Dean of Toronto[3] from that year until he retired in 1973.