Shane Parker (bishop)

Shane Alexander Donaldson Parker is a Canadian Anglican bishop. Elected and consecrated in 2020, he is the 10th diocesan bishop of the Anglican Diocese of Ottawa in the Anglican Church of Canada. Prior to his election as bishop, Parker was dean of Ottawa and rector of Christ Church Cathedral.

Biography
Parker was born in Edmonton to Irish-Canadian parents and raised in western Canada. He did undergraduate and graduate studies at Carleton University and worked as a sociologist prior to studying theology at Saint Paul University. Parker was ordained a priest in the Diocese of Ottawa in 1987. He is married to Katherine Shadbolt and they have three adult children.

As a priest, Parker served in parish ministry and as an archdeacon prior to his appointment as dean of Ottawa in 1999. As dean, he appointed Albert Dumont, an Algonquin poet who had renounced Christianity for indigenous beliefs, as "indigenous spiritual teacher-in-residence" at Christ Church Cathedral. He also oversaw a $120,000 restoration of the cathedral and the cathedral's membership in Coventry Cathedral's Community of the Cross of Nails.

On March 14, 2020—the final day before Anglican church services were suspended amid the spreading COVID-19 pandemic—the diocese elected Parker as its 10th bishop. He was consecrated and installed by Archbishop Anne Germond on May 31, 2020, at Christ Church Cathedral.