Identity area
Type of entity
Person
Authorized form of name
Sidney Stewart Payne
Parallel form(s) of name
- Archbishop Sidney Stuart Payne
Standardized form(s) of name according to other rules
Other form(s) of name
Identifiers for corporate bodies
Description area
Dates of existence
1978 -
History
Archbishop Payne was born June 6, 1932. He receive a Bachelor of Arts, MUN, 1958; Licentiate of Theology, Queen's College, 1957; Bachelor of Divinity, General Synod (Correspondence), 1965; and Doctor of Divinity, Honorary, King's College, Halifax. Deacon in 1957, he was ordained to priesthood in June, 1958, and served at Happy Valley, 1957-1965; Bay Roberts, 1965-1970; and St. Anthony, 1970-1978. He was consecrated as the Second Bishop of the Diocese of Western Newfoundland, June 23, 1978, and installed as Lord Bishop of Western Newfoundland, Oct. 29, 1978. Bishop Payne was elected Metropolitan of the Ecclesiastical Province of Canada on Nov. 3, 1990, and installed on Dec. 7, 1990.