John Anderson (archbishop of Moosonee)
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.
References[]
- ^ Province of Ontario
- ^ Who was Who 1897-1990, London, A & C Black, 1991 ISBN 0-7136-3457-X.
- ^ "The Clergy List, Clerical Guide and Ecclesiastical Directory" London, John Phillips, 1900
- ^ Malden Richard (ed) (1920). Crockford's Clerical Directory for 1920 (51st edn). London: The Field Press. p. 1064.
- ^ The Times, 21 September 1940, p. 6.
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