“We are all called to ministry,” affirms Rt. Rev. David Irving, “some to lay ministry, some to ordained ministry.”
The recently installed 12th bishop of the Anglican Diocese of Saskatoon felt that call early in life. “I knew from the time I was a young teen that I was being called to ordained ministry.”
Born in Carlisle, Cumbria, Irving completed his senior education and theological training in England, where he worked for a number of years before emigrating to Canada.
His father, an Anglican priest, was by this time working in the Diocese of Edmonton, and Irving and his wife Joan paid their first visit to Canada to visit his parents and go skiing.