About Father Dan

By DFG
Reflections of a Canadian Churchman is the official webpage of the Rev. Daniel F. Graves.  Fr. Graves is a priest, writer, and Church historian in the Anglican Diocese of Toronto in the Anglican Church of Canada.  Fr. Graves is the Incumbent and Theologian-in-Residence at Trinity Church in Aurora and the Priest-in-Charge of St. James-the-Apostle in Sharon. He was previously the incumbent of St. Paul's Newmarket, Trinity Bradford, Priest-in-Charge of St. Stephen's Maple, and Assistant Curate at Holy Trinity Thornhill. For many years he was manager of the Anglican Book Centre in Toronto. For twelve years he was editor of the Journal of the Canadian Church Historical Society. He is the editor and compiler of Prayers for Healing from the Anglican Tradition (Toronto: Anglican Book Centre, 2010), and co-editor with Scott Kindred-Barnes of Richard Hooker: His Life, Work and Legacy - Essays in Honour of W. David Neelands (Toronto: St. Osmund Press, 2013) and Richard Hooker and the Christian Virtues (Leiden: Brill, 2024).  He is the author of numerous articles on the 16th-century Anglican theologian, Richard Hooker, and his currently working on a biography of Hooker. He has also published on Peter Martyr Vermigli and and John Hales. Fr. Graves also teaches in the LTh program at Huron College (London, ON). 

In addition to his academic and pastoral pursuits, Fr. Graves is the author of the 'Mr. Perkins' series of short stories published regularly in the Toronto Anglican newspaper, and three short novellas, featured on this blog. He is also an avid ballroom dancer and teaches ballroom and latin dance for the town of Newmarket.

Fr. Graves holds a B.A. (York, 1994; hons 1999), M.Div. (Trinity College, Toronto, 2007), and Th.M. (Trinity, 2017). 


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