Bio

Bishop Anthony Burton is the retired Bishop of Saskatchewan.

He was educated at University of Toronto, Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, and the University of Oxford.

He was ordained in the Diocese of Nova Scotia, where he served in two parishes on Cape Breton Island. In 1991 he moved to Prince Albert, Saskatchewan, where he served as Dean and Rector of St. Alban’s Cathedral.

In 1993, he was elected Bishop of the Diocese of Saskatchewan.  At the time of his election in 1993, Bishop Burton was the youngest bishop in the world-wide Anglican Communion, and the youngest Canadian bishop in the twentieth century. In addition, he spent a term as Chair of the Council of the North (representing a third of Canada's dioceses and 85% of its geography).  He was instrumental in establishing James Settee College, a theological school for educating indigenous people for the ministry.  He served as Co-Chair of the Anglican-Roman Catholic Dialogue; as the Episcopal Visitor to the South American Mission Society; and as patron or officer of a variety of institutions, societies and organizations, among them Nashotah House Theological Seminary, the College of Emmanuel and St. Chad, and the Living Church Foundation. He also served on the executive committee of General Synod, the Council of General Synod of the Anglican Church of Canada, and on the Council's planning committee. 

In 2008, he became Rector of the Episcopal Church of the Incarnation in Dallas, Texas where he initiated a center for homeless teenagers, Incarnation House; and a perpetually endowed residential Internship Program for new graduates, the Uptown Fellows Program.  He also lead a $31,000,000 capital campaign (at the time the largest financial campaign of an Episcopal church this century) to establish an endowment for the poor, construct three new buildings locally and a new church in Belize, and purchase and renovate a new Outreach Building for ministry to the poor.  The Church of the Incarnation is now one of the best attended Episcopal churches in North America, with extensive ministry among the marginalized, focussed primarily on disadvantaged children and youth.

He retired in 2022.  Currently, he is Chairman of Elliott House; Trustee of the Anglican Digest; Visitor of Ralston College; and Director of the LaHave Coastal Conservation Association.

He has been married to Anna Burton since 1989.  They have two children.