George Colborne Lemmon (20 March 1932 – 22 May 2022) was a Canadian priest who served as the seventh Bishop of Fredericton. [1]
After an earlier career as a Linotype operator [2] he studied for a Bachelor of Arts (BA) at the University of New Brunswick. He was ordained in 1963 [3] and began his career at Canterbury, New Brunswick. He later held incumbencies at Wilmot, Renforth, Sackville and Christ Church, Fredericton.
Lemmon died on 22 May 2022, at the age of 90. [4]
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Same-sex marriage has been legal in New Brunswick since June 23, 2005 in accordance with a ruling from the Court of Queen's Bench of New Brunswick. This decision followed similar cases in eight other provinces and territories, and pre-dated by only one month the federal Civil Marriage Act of 2005, which legalised same-sex marriage throughout Canada. New Brunswick was the ninth jurisdiction in Canada and the twelfth in the world to recognise same-sex marriage.
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