Fifth Bishop of Montreal.
John Cragg Farthing was born in Cincinnati, Ohio in 1861, and educated in Liverpool, England. He obtained a B.A. from Cambridge University in 1885, and was ordained deacon that same year in London, Ontario. He was ordained priest in 1886 in St. Thomas, Ontario, and married Mary Kemp. From 1888 to 1889 he was Priest of charge of the Parish of Woodstock, Ontario. In 1889, he completed a M.A. from Cambridge, and became the Rector of Woodstock, a position he held until 1906. From 1898 to 1905, he was an honourary Captain and Chaplain of the 22nd Regiment, Oxford Rifles, Woodstock. He became canon of St. Paul's Cathedral in London, Ontario from 1904 - 1906; Prolocutor of the Lower House of the General Synod of the Church of England in Canada from 1905 - 1908; and Rector of Kingston, Ontario and Dean of Ontario from 1906 - 1909. He was consecrated Bishop of Montreal in 1909, and appointed Honorary Major and Chaplain of Third Regiment, Victoria Rifles of Canada, Montreal in 1911. He received various honourary degrees, including a D.D. (1901) from the University of Bishops' College in Lennexville, Ontario; a D.D. (1907) from the University of Trinity College in Toronto, Ontario; a D.C.L. (1908) from the University of King's College in Windsor, Nova Scotia; and an L.L.D (1921) from McGill University in Montreal, Quebec. He resigned in 1939, and passed away in 1947.
First Bishop of Algoma.
Frederick Dawson Fauquier was born in Malta in 1817, and educated in England and Canada. He was ordained deacon in 1845, then priest in 1846. He married Sarah Burrowes (Burroughs) that same year, and the couple went on to have at least two sons. He worked for the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel Missionary in Zorra, Ontario from 1845 - 1873, and became the Archdeacon on Brant in 1872. He was consecrated Bishop of Algoma in 1873, and received an honourary D.C.L. from the University of Trinity College in 1874. He passed away in 1881 in Toronto, Ontario.
Second Bishop of Newfoundland (with Bermuda).
Edward Feild was born in Worcester, England in 1801. He received a B.A. from Oxford University in 1823, then an M.A. in 1825. He was ordained deacon that same year, and priest in 1827. He served as curate in Kidlington, England from 1826 to 1831, then at St. Martin's, Salisbury until 1834. From there, he became Rector of English Bicknor, Gloucestershire, from 1834 to 1844. During this time, he was also fouthe Inspector of Schools for the National Society from 1840 to 1841. In 1844, he was consecrated Bishop of Newfoundland, and received an honourary D.D. from Oxford. During his episcopacy, he travelled through Newfoundland and the Labrador coast, as well as to Bermuda, baptizing babies, consecrating churches and graveyards, and regularizing marriages. He also founded a theological college and collegiate school, and completed the building of a Cathedral in St. John's in 1850. He married Sophia Bevan in 1867, the widow of Rev. Jacob Mountain, and resigned the See of Newfoundland in 1876. He died in Bermuda that same year.
First Bishop of the Arctic.
Archibald Lang Fleming was born in Greenock, Scotland in 1883, and attended Glasgow University. He married Elizabeth Lukens, and worked with J. Brown & Co. Ltd., shipbuilders in Clydebank,. In 1906, he travelled to Canada and attended Wycliffe College. He was ordained deacon in 1912, and served as a missionary to Baffin's Island until 1916. he was ordained priest in 1913. He worked for churches in Ontario and New Brunswick until 1918, when he became the Chaplain and the Financial Secretary of Wycliffe College. He received an L.th. there in 1919, and went to work as a rector in St. John, New Brunswick in 1921, where he stayed until 1927. He was an honourary captain and chaplain to the New Brunswick Heavy Brigade Artillery from 1924 to 1927, and published a book, The History of St. John's Church, Saint John, New Brunswick in 1925. In 1927, he was made the Archdeacon on the Arctic, until 1933, when he was consecrated Bishop of the Arctic. He was Examining Chaplain to the Bishops of Yukon, Moosonee, Keewatin and Mackenzie River, as well as Commissioner for Eskimo Work in the Dioceses of Yukon, Mackenzie River, Moosonee and Keewatin He was also made a fellow of the Royal Geographic Society in 1930, and was known as "the Flying Bishop" because he travelled by airplane throughout his diocese. He resigned the See in 1929, and passed away in 1953. His widow published his memoirs, Archibald the Arctic, in 1956.
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First Bishop of Montreal; First Metropolitan of Canada.
Francis Fulford was born in Sidmouth, in 1803 and educated in Tiverton, England. He was ordained deacon in 1826, and served as curate of Holme-next-Runcton, in Downham, England, until 1928, when he was ordained priest. He received a B.A. from Oxford University in 1827, and was curate of Fawley in Buckinghamshire from 1828 to 1832. He married Mary Drummond in 1830, and served as rector of Trowbridge, Wiltshire from 1832 to 1842. He received an M.A. from Oxford in 1838, and became Chaplain to H.R.H. the Princess Mary, Duchess of Gloucester from 1828 to 1850. In 1842, he became the rector of Croydon, Cambridgeshire, then minister of Curzon Chapel, Mayfair, Westminster S.W., London in 1845. He was the first editor of the Colonial Church Chronicle and Missionary Journal in 1848. He was consecrated Bishop of Montreal in 1850, and received an honourary D.D. from Oxford that same year, then another one from the University of Bishop's College in Lennoxville, Quebec in 1854. In 1857, he laid the foundation stone of a new gothic cathedral, the cost of which would put the diocese into heavy debt. He was appointed the Metropolitan Bishop of the Church of England in Canada in 1860, and passed away in Montreal in 1868.
First Bishop of Niagara.
Thomas Brock Fuller was born in Kingston, Ontario in 1810, and educated in Hamilton, York, and Quebec. He received a scholarship from the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in 1828, and was ordained deacon in 1833. He was assistant minister of Christ Church in Montreal from 1833 to 1835, and was ordained priest in 1835. He married Cynthia Street, and the couple had nine children. He was curate of Adolphustown, Ontario from 1835 to 1836, then missionary in Chatham until 1840. He served as rector of Thorold, Ontario from 1840 to 1861. During his time as a rector, he published sermons, compiled the Canadian agricultural reader, became the first president of the Thorold mechanics' institute, as well as vice president of the Thorold Township Agricultural Society. He then became rector of St. George's Church in Toronto from 1861 to 1875, and was the vice-president of the Church of England Evangelical Association in 1868. He was consecrated Bishop of Niagara in 1875, and passed away in Hamilton, Ontario in 1884. He received two honourary degrees - one S.T.D. from Hobart Collage, New York in 1856, and one D.C.L. from University of Trinity College in 1857.