Doull, Alexander John

First Bishop of Kootenay.

Alexander John Doull was born in Halifax, Nova Scotia in 1870. He obtained a B.A. from Oxford University in 1894. He married Margaret Gertrude (last name unknown) that same year, and was ordained deacon in 1896. He was the curate of Leeds Parish Church in England from 1896 to 1899, and was ordained priest in 1898. He obtained an M.A. from Oxford in 1898 as well. In 1899, he became curate of the Church of the Advent in Montreal, then rector in 1901. He then served as Dean of Columbia and rector of Christ Church Cathedral in Victoria, British Columbia, from 1910 to 1915. He was the examining chaplain to the Bishop of British Columbria from 1912 to 1915, and received an M.A. and D.D. from the University of King's College, Windsor, Nova Scotia in 1914. He was consecrated Bishop of Kootenay in 1915, and received an honourary D.D. from Oxford in 1916. In 1930, he was selected to sit in the Committee for Church Union, and in 1933, he resigned from the See of Kootenay. He was the assistant bishop of Sheffield, as well as archdeacon and canon, from 1933 to 1935, before returning to British Columbia in 1935 due to ill health. He passed away in 1937.