Series 76 - Arthur Henry Sovereign correspondence

Third Bishop of Yukon; Sixth Bishop of Athabasca.

Arthur Henry Sovereign was born in Woodstock, Ontario in 1881, and obtained a B.A. from the University of Toronto in 1905, then an M.A. in 1906. He was ordained deacon in 1906, becoming curate of Christ Church Cathedral in Vancouver until 1909. He was ordained priest in 1907. From 1909 to 1932, he held the position of Rector at St. Mark's Church, Vancouver. In 1910, he obtained a B.D., by examination of the Board of Examiners, recognized by the Provincial Synod of the Church of England in the Ecclesiastical Province of Canada, as well as a L.Th. from Wycliffe College. He lectured in Theology at the Vancouver Theological College from 1910 to 1914, and became a fellow of the Royal Geographic Society in 1923. He was Commissary in Canada for the Bishop of the Yukon from 1927 to 1932, and Canon of Church Church Cathedral from 1929 to 1932. In 1931, he received an honourary D.D. from Wycliffe College, and in 1932, he was consecrated Bishop of the Yukon, then was translated to the See of Athabasca. He resigned in 1950, and passed away in Vernon, British Columbia in 1966.