is the former Bishop of Saskatchewan and, most recently, the Rector of the Episcopal Church of the Incarnation, Dallas having retired in 2022. He was educated at the University of Toronto, Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, and the University of Oxford. Burton served in the Diocese of Nova Scotia and as Dean of St. Alban’s Cathedral in Prince Albert, Saskatchewan, before in 1993 becoming the youngest bishop in the Anglican Communion. Father Burton has also been involved in substantial local and international ministerial work. He helped to establish the James Settee College, a theological school for First Nations’ people, the Incarnation House in Dallas for homeless teenagers, and a poor outreach center in Belize, which involved the largest capital campaign of its kind in more than a century.
Burton has represented the Anglican Church as Co-Chair of the Anglican-Roman Catholic Dialogue, as Episcopal Visitor to the South American Mission Society, and as executive committee of General Synod, among many other positions. He also sits on the Board of the Anglican Digest, Elliott House and LaHave Coastal Conservation. Through his ministry but also in his personal life, Burton is a keen scholar of literature, a talented photographer, and dedicated explicator of the sublimity of the human and natural worlds.
