Anglican Bishops
of Canada

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

Hollingworth Tully Kingdon was born in London and he was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge. He was ordained in 1860. He served as Curate of St Andrews (Well Street) London; Vice-Principal of the Theological College, Sarum (Salisbury); and as Vicar of Good Easter, Essex. He was at this final position when, in 1881, he was invited to be Coadjuctor Bishop of Frederiction

Bishop Medley died September 9, 1892 and the Rt Rev Dr Kingdon at once succeeded him as Bishop. Bishop Kingdon wrote books on doctrinal subjects, as well as tracts and pamphlets on controversies facing the church in his own day.

Bishop Kingdon died in 1907. In his will bequeathed his library, consisting of some twenty-five hundred volumes, to the parish of Trinity Church in Saint John, New Brunswick. In 1985 the Parish gave the Library to the University of King’s College, Halifax.

John Medley was born at Chelsea, England. As the first Anglican bishop of Fredericton, Medley spent 47 years building up the church physically and spiritually. Educated at Wadham College, Oxford, and friend of Edmund Pusey, he was active in the English ecclesiological movement, which stressed the improvement of church music and architecture. A known Tractarian, his High Church sympathies were viewed with suspicion by his Loyalist congregation.

Consecrated bishop of Fredericton in 1845, he embarked on a series of annual parish visitations and dedicated himself to building a cathedral at Fredericton and developing a cathedral choir school. The cathedral, designed by architect Frank Wills with furnishing designed by William Butterfield, was consecrated in 1853. Bishop Medley was a good musician and composed himself. He authored Hymns for Public Worship in the Diocese of Fredericton.

Medley supported free pews, free-will offerings and the development of diocesan synods. With the resignation of Bishop Oxenden, at the synod of 1878 Bishop Medley was appointed the third Metropolitan of (Eastern) Canada

In 1881, as recommended by Bishop Medley, Rev. Tully Kingdom was appointed his adjuctor. The Most Rev. John Medley died at Fredericton 9 Sept 1892 at the age of 88.