John Feetham

Who was John Feetham?

John Oliver Feetham was a long-serving Anglican bishop in Australia who was aligned with the Anglo-Catholic tradition.

Feetham was born into an ecclesiastical family, his father was the Reverend William Feetham, Rural Dean of Raglan, Monmouthshire and his mother the daughter of an archdeacon. He was educated at Marlborough College and Trinity Hall, Cambridge. and ordained in 1899. After a curacy at St Simon Zelotes, Bethnal Green, he was Principal of the Brotherhood of the Good Shepherd. In 1913 he was ordained to the episcopate as the fourth Bishop of North Queensland. He died on 14 September 1947 and his ashes were interred beneath the high altar at St James' Cathedral Townsville.

Feetham is commemorated in the Australian Anglican calendar on 15 September.