Anglican Bishops
of Canada

The Diocese of Saskatchewan was created in 1873 and included most of the south and north-central areas of the present-day civil provinces of Saskatchewan and Alberta, and a small portion of northern Manitoba. In 1884 the Diocese of Assiniboine (later Qu’Appelle) was created then in 1888 the Diocese of Calgary. The last division of the Diocese was in 1933 with northern part, the Diocese of Saskatchewan based in Prince Albert, and a southern part, the Diocese of Saskatoon.

John McLean (1828-1886)
Bishop: 1874 - 1886
William Cyprian Pinkham (1844-1928)
Bishop: 1887 - 1903
Jervois Arthur Newnham   Bishop: 1903 - 1921
George Exton Lloyd   Bishop: 1922 - 1931
William Thomas Thompson Hallam   Bishop: 1931 - 1932
Walter Burd   Bishop: 1933 - 1939
Henry David Martin   Bishop: 1939 - 1959
William Henry Howes Crump   Bishop: 1960 - 1970
Hedley Vicars Roycroft Short   Bishop: 1970 - 1985
Thomas Oliver Morgan   Bishop: 1985 - 1993
Anthony John Burton   Bishop: 1993 - Aug. 31, 2008

An electoral synod will be held December 6, 2008.

Joseph Lofthouse was born at Wadsley, Yorkshire, England on December 18, 1855.   He was trained for foreign missionary work at the Church Missionary Society College, Islington, England and was sent in 1882 as a missionary to Hudson Bay.   He served at Fort York and Fort Churchill, and in 1899 was appointed archdeacon of York, Moosonee.

In 1902, when the Diocese of Keewatin was formed, Archdeacon Lofthouse was appointed its first bishop.   He was bishop for 19 years until 1921 when he resigned his see, and returned to England.   Bishop Joseph Lofthouse Sr died at Dawlish, England, on December 16, 1933.

Andrew Hunter Dunn was born in 1839 at Saffron Walden, Essex, England. After graduating from Christi College, Cambridge he was appointed curate of St Mark’s, Notting Hill in 1861. He was priested in 1865 and in 1871 was appointed to All Saints’, South Acton, London. Here over 21 years he erected 2 permanent churches, a temporary church, six mission churches, as well as schools and parsonage. In 1866 he married Alice, daughter of William Hunter, and they had 5 sons and 2 daughters.

September 18, 1892, Andrew Dunn was consecrated as the fifth Bishop of Quebec in Christ Church Cathedral, Montreal by Bishop John Travers Lewis of Ontario. In 1907 he was a D.C.L. of Bishop’s College, Lennoxville. He continued in charge of the diocese until his death at sea on November 14, 1914.

The Diocese of Frederiction was formed in 1845 when it was separated from the Diocese of Nova Scotia. The diocese covers the civil province of New Brunswick and its cathedral is Christ Church, Fredericton, consecrated in August 1853.

John Medley (1804-1892)
Bishop: 1845 – 1892
Metropolitan of Canada: 1878 – 1868
Hollingworth Tully Kingdon (1835-1907)
Coadjutor Bishop: 1881-1892
Bishop: 1892 – 1907
John Andrew Richardson (1868-1938) Coadjutor Bishop: 1906 - 1907
Bishop: 1907 - 1938
Metropolitan of Canada: 1934 - 1938
William Henry Moorhead
Bishop: 1939 - 1956
Alexander Henry O’Neil (1907-1997)
Bishop: 1957 - 1971,   Metropolitan of Canada: 1963 - 1971
Harold Lee Nutter
Bishop: 1971 - 1989,   Metropolitan of Canada: 1980 - 1989
George Colborne Lemmon
Bishop: 1989 - 2000
William J. Hockin
Coadjutor Bishop: 1998-2000,   Bishop: 2000 - 2003
Claude Weston Miller
Coadjutor Bishop: 2003,   Bishop: 2003 - present

The Diocese of Yukon covers the Yukon Territory. It was formed in 1890, under the name of the Diocese of Selkirk, out of the northern portion of the Diocese of Mackenzie River. It was renamed to the Diocese of Yukon in 1907. Since 1943, it has been part of the Ecclesiastical Province of British Columbia and the Yukon having formerly been part of the Ecclesiastical Province of Rupert’s Land.

William Carpenter Bompas (1844-1906)
Bishop of Selkirk: 1890 – 31st Oct 1905
Isaac O. Stringer (1866-1934)
Bishop of Selkirk/Yukon: 17th Dec 1905 – Dec 1931
Metropolitan of Rupert’s Land: 1931 - 1934
Arthur Henry Soveriegn (1881-1966)
Bishop of Yukon: Jan – Sept 1932
William ‘Archibald’ Geddes (1894-1947)
Bishop of Yukon: May 1934 - 1947
Walter Robert Adams (1844-1906)
Bishop of Yukon: 1947 – 1952 (1st Archbishop of Yukon)
Metropolitan of British Columbia & Yukon: 1947 – 1952
Thomas Greenwood (1903-1974)
Bishop of Yukon: 1952 – 1962
Henry Hooper Marsh (1898-1995)
Bishop of Yukon: 1962 – 1967
John Timothy Frame (1930-)
Bishop of Yukon: 25th Jan 1968 – 15th Oct 1981
Ronald Curry Ferris (-)
Bishop of Yukon: 1981 – 23rd Feb 1995
Terrence Owen Buckle (1940-)
Bishop of Yukon: 1995 - present
Metropolitan of British Columbia & Yukon: 2005 - present

Isaac O. Stringer was born April 19, 1866 in Kincardine Township, Bruce County, Ontario. Just before graduating the University of Toronto in 1892, he met Bishop Reeve of Mackenzie River who was appealing for missionaries to the Inuvialuit of the Lower Mackenzie. Stringer was ordained deacon and made his way to Fort McPherson by wagon, steamer and ox-team.

Stringer was priested in 1893 and travelled extensively visiting Rampart House, Kittigazuit, and other Inuvialuit communities. He married Sadie Alexander in Ontario 1897, and the two returned to the north, where they lived and ministered until 1901.

In August 1901, Stringer, his wife and two little children left Herschel Island, sailing on a whaling boat to San Francisco, for a furlough in Eastern Canada. Stringer had developed snow-blindness, unable to return to Hershel Island, he accepted the invitation of Bishop William Carpenter Bompas to become rector of Christ Church in Whitehorse. When Bompas resigned in 1905, Isaac Stringer was elected his successor as Bishop of Selkirk.

The name of the diocese was changed in 1907 to Yukon. The first Synod of the Diocese was held in Christ Church, Whitehorse in 1907. Dawson was chosen as the See City, and in the autumn of 1907, Bishop and Mrs. Stringer and their children set sail on the river steamer for their new home where they remained until 1931 when Bishop Stringer was elected Metropolitan of Rupert’s Land.

The Rev. Canon Arthur Henry Sovereign of St. Mark’s Church, Vancouver, B.C., was chosen as the successor of Archbishop Stringer. Archbishop Stringer moved to Winnipeg but continued travelling on behalf of the church. In the autumn of 1934, he visited the Diocese of Saskatchewan and penetrated far into northern Indian settlements, which were reached by airplane. On October 30, 1934, while about to ascend the steps of Trinity Synod Hall, Winnipeg, Bishop Stringer collapsed and died.

The Diocese of Keewatin came into being in 1902. Prior to that time the territory that it now occupies was part of the both the Diocese of Moosonee and the Diocese of Rupert’s Land. In 1902 the diocese stretched all the way from the border with the USA in the south to the far reaches of the Arctic in the north. When the Diocese of the Arctic was formed in 1930 the Diocese of Keewatin gave up its territory north of Churchill.

Joseph Lofthouse Sr   Bishop: 1902 - 1921
Alfred D. Dewdney   Bishop: 1921 - 1938
Joseph Lofthouse Jr   Bishop: 1938 - 1953
Harry E. Hives   Bishop: 1954 - 1968
Hugh Stiff   Bishop: 1969 - 1974
H. James P. Allan   Bishop: 1974 - 1991
Thomas W. R. Collings   Bishop: 1991 - 1996
Gordon Beardy
Suffragan Bishop: 1993-1996   Bishop: 1996 - 2001
David Ashdown   Bishop: 2001 - present