From Canada-
Anglican Bishop John R. Sperry died on Saturday in Hay River, N.W.T. He was 87 years old.
Sperry, who was better known as Jack, worked as a bishop with the Anglican Church throughout the North.
He was a minister at Anglican missions in Kugluktuk, N.W.T. — then called Coppermine — and Fort Smith, N.W.T. He also served as the Bishop of the Arctic for the Anglican Church and worked throughout Nunavut, the Northwest Territories and Nunavik.
He learned Inuinnaqtun and worked to translate the Bible and hymns into the Inuktitut dialect.
Bishop Andrew Ataguttaaluk knew Sperry well, having worked and travelled with him in the North since the 1970s. He said Sperry's translation work was instrumental in teaching the Anglican faith to the people of the Western Arctic.
More here-
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/story/2012/02/12/north-bishop-sperry-dies.html
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