Bidwell, Edward John

Coadjutor Bishop of Ontario; Third Bishop of Ontario; Assistant Bishop of Canterbury, England.

Edward John Bidwell was born in 1866 in Suffolk, England and educated in Berkshire. He received his Bachelor of Arts in 1889 from Oxford University, and became an Assistant Master at Leamington College from 1890 to 1894. He was ordained deacon in 1891, then priest in 1892. He received his Master of Arts from Oxford in 1894. He was then Headmaster of Leamington College Preparatory School until 1897, headmaster of King's School in Peterborough, England from 1897 to 1903, and headmaster of Bishop's College School in Lennoxville, Quebec from 1903 to 1909. He received an honourary Doctor of Civil Law from the University of Bishops' College in Lennoxville Quebec in 1907, and then an honourary Doctor of Divinity from the University of Bishop's College, as well as another honourary D.D. from the University of Trinity College in Toronto, Ontario in 1909. He was Rector of Kingston, Ontario and the Dean of Ontario from 1909 - 1913, and received another honourary D.D. from Queen's University in Kingston. He was consecrated Bishop of Kingston in 1912, and succeeded to the See of Ontario in 1917. He resigned in 1926, and passed away in 1941.