John Anderson (archbishop of Moosonee)

Last updated
The Right Reverend Jhon Anderson c.1924 Anglican archbishops and bishops of Canada (John Anderson cropped).jpg
The Right Reverend Jhon Anderson c.1924

John George Anderson was a Canadian Anglican bishop in the 20th century. [1]

Anderson was born in Orkney, Saskatchewan, Canada on 23 March 1866. [2] He was educated at St. John's College, University of Manitoba.

Anderson ordained in 1889 [3] after which he was a Church Mission Society (CMS) missionary at Long Sault and then Vicar of St Peter's Manitoba. From 1899 to 1909 he was Rural Dean of Lisgar. [4] In 1909 he became Bishop of Moosonee, a post he held until 1943, for the last three years of which he was also Metropolitan of Ontario. [5] He died on 15 June 1943.

Related Research Articles

Diocese of Ruperts Land

The Diocese of Rupert's Land is a diocese of the Ecclesiastical Province of Rupert's Land of the Anglican Church of Canada. It is named for the historical British North American territory of Rupert's Land, which was contained within the original diocesan boundaries.

John Farthing (bishop)

John Cragg Farthing was the Anglican Bishop of Montreal for 30 years during the first half of the twentieth century.

Edward Bidwell

Edward John Bidwell was an English Anglican clergyman, who served as Bishop of Ontario from 1917 to 1926.

Joseph Lofthouse

Joseph Lofthouse, Sr., was a Canadian Anglican bishop in the early 20th century.

Henry Henn was a Church of England bishop. He was the third Bishop of Burnley from 1909 to 1931.

Robert Whitcombe

The Rev Robert Henry Whitcombe (1862–1922) was an eminent Anglican Bishop in the early decades of the twentieth century. Educated at Winchester and New College, Oxford, from 1886 to 1899 he was a schoolmaster at Wellington College and then Eton. After this he was Rector of Hardwick, Buckinghamshire and then Vicar of Romford before a 13-year spell as Bishop of Colchester from 1909. A memorial window to him is situated on the south wall of St Mary at the Walls, Colchester.

John Hugh Granville Randolph was the Bishop of Guildford and then Dean of Salisbury in the Church of England in the first decades of the 20th century.

Charles Roper

John Charles Roper was an Anglican bishop in the Anglo-Catholic tradition in the first half of the 20th century.

Adelbert Anson

Adelbert John Robert Anson DD was a clergyman from the Anson family. He served as an Anglican bishop in late 19th century western Canada.

Malcolm Taylor McAdam Harding was a bishop of the Anglican Church of Canada in the 20th century.

Edwin Hubert Knowles was an Anglican bishop in the second quarter of the 20th century.

Clarendon Worrell

Clarendon Lamb Worrell was the 5th Primate of the Anglican Church of Canada.

Edwin Frederick Robins was an Anglican bishop in Canada from 1912 to 1930.

Robert Renison 19th and 20th-century Anglican Bishop of Moosonee

Robert John Renison was an Anglican bishop in the mid 20th century.

The Most Rev John Andrew Richardson, DD was the third Bishop of Fredericton and later became Metropolitan of Canada

William Cyprian Pinkham (1844–1928) was the second Anglican Bishop of Saskatchewan. He then became the first Bishop of Calgary when the diocese was divided in 1903.

Charles Hamilton (bishop)

Charles Hamilton (1834–1919) was a Canadian Anglican bishop who was the first Archbishop of Ottawa, Ontario and Metropolitan of Canada.

William Clark (bishop)

William Reid Clark was a Canadian Anglican bishop in the first decades of the 20th century.

Percival Richard O'Driscoll is a Canadian Anglican bishop.

John Arthur William Langstone was a Canadian Anglican bishop in the second half of the 20th century.

References

  1. ↑ Province of Ontario
  2. ↑ Who was Who 1897-1990 , London, A & C Black, 1991 ISBN   0-7136-3457-X.
  3. ↑ "The Clergy List, Clerical Guide and Ecclesiastical Directory" London, John Phillips, 1900
  4. ↑ Malden Richard (ed) (1920). Crockford's Clerical Directory for 1920 (51st edn) . London: The Field Press. p. 1064.
  5. ↑ The Times , 21 September 1940, p. 6.
Religious titles
Preceded by
George Holmes 		Bishop of Moosonee
1909–1943		Succeeded by
Robert John Renison
Preceded by
John Charles Roper 		Metropolitan of Ontario
1940–1943		Succeeded by
Charles Allen Seager


This page is based on this Wikipedia article
Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license; additional terms may apply.
Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.