Bishop James C.M. Clarke.Bishop James C.M. Clarke, who served the diocese of the Arctic and the Canadian Forces, died April 28 at the age of 85. "He came down with an infection around Easter," said his son, Mark in an interview. He added that his father had been affected by Alzheimer's disease Alzheimer's disease (ăls`hī'mərz, ôls–), degenerative disease of nerve cells in the cerebral cortex that leads to atrophy of the brain and senile dementia. for several years. Born in Campbellford, Ont., Bishop Clarke earned a B.A. degree at the University of Toronto Research at the University of Toronto has been responsible for the world's first electronic heart pacemaker, artificial larynx, single-lung transplant, nerve transplant, artificial pancreas, chemical laser, G-suit, the first practical electron microscope, the first cloning of T-cells, and L.Th. and B.D. degrees at Trinity College Trinity College, Ireland: see Dublin, Univ. of. Trinity College Private liberal arts college in Hartford, Conn., founded in 1823. It is historically affiliated with the Episcopal church, though its curriculum is nonsectarian. . He was awarded an honorary doctorate by Trinity in 1981. Ordained or·dain tr.v. or·dained, or·dain·ing, or·dains 1. a. To invest with ministerial or priestly authority; confer holy orders on. b. To authorize as a rabbi. 2. as a deacon in 1949 and a priest in 1950, he served the Calgary parish of St. Stephen from 1949 to 1951. He then headed for another parish called St. Stephen, this time in Fort Chimo, Que., now called Kuujjuaq, part of the diocese of the Arctic. In writing about his first Christmas in the north, he showed a keen eye for the social pressures affecting the native Inuit. "A thing I remember, especially from that first Christmas is the way the children went everywhere with their parents. Those families were very closely knit Adj. 1. closely knit - held together as by social or cultural ties; "a close-knit family"; "close-knit little villages"; "the group was closely knit" close-knit close - close in relevance or relationship; "a close family"; "we are all... , compared to the way we are civilizing them into fragmentation now," he wrote in the Toronto Star. He was appointed archdeacon of the northern Quebec region and in 1974 was named executive archdeacon of the diocese, working out of the office that the Arctic then maintained in Toronto. In 1979, he was elected bishop suffragan suf·fra·gan n. Abbr. Suff. or Suffr. 1. A bishop elected or appointed as an assistant to the bishop or ordinary of a diocese, having administrative and episcopal responsibilities but no jurisdictional functions. (assistant) of the Arctic and lived for a time in Iqaluit, then called Frobisher Bay, now the capital of Nunavut. In 1986, then-primate Ted Scott named Bishop Clarke as Bishop Ordinary to the Canadian Forces, a position that oversees Canadian military chaplains and represents an even more far-flung constituency than the Arctic. He retired in 1991 and is survived by his wife of 47 years, Ruth, and three grown children, Matthew, Mark and Penina. |
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