John Anderson (archbishop of Moosonee)

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

Anderson was born at Stoneywood Orkney, Scotland, on 23 March 1866.[2] The Land of Moosoneek, Olive Mackay Petersen.

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

  1. ^ Province of Ontario
  2. ^ ' He was educated at St. John's College, University of Manitoba.
  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.


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