Douglas Crosby


Douglas Crosby

9th Bishop of Hamilton
Bishop Crosby in 2023
SeeHamilton
InstalledNovember 8, 2010
RetiredNovember 1, 2025
PredecessorAnthony F. Tonnos
SuccessorJoseph Dabrowski
Other postsBishop of St. George’s Corner Brook, Newfoundland and Labrador (2003–2007)
Bishop of Corner Brook and Labrador (2007–2010)
Orders
OrdinationSeptember 27, 1975
ConsecrationJanuary 2, 1998
by Peter Alfred Sutton
Personal details
BornDavid Douglas Crosby
(1949-06-28) June 28, 1949
Alma mater
Coat of arms

David Douglas Crosby OMI (born June 28, 1949) is a Canadian prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He was the ninth Bishop of Hamilton from 2010 to 2025, having previously served as Bishop of St. George’s Corner Brook, Newfoundland and Labrador (2003–2007) and Bishop of Corner Brook and Labrador (2007–2010).

During the fall 2015 Plenary Assembly of the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops (CCCB), Crosby was elected president-elect of the conference and took office at the end of the fall Plenary Assembly. At that time, Bishop Crosby succeeded the outgoing president, Archbishop Paul-André Durocher, of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Gatineau, in Gatineau, Quebec, Canada. Bishop Crosby is a member of the Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate, though as a bishop his immediate superior is now the Pope. His two-year term as president of the conference ended in 2017, with the election of Bishop Lionel Gendron of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Saint-Jean-Longueuil in Longueuil, Quebec as president.