Carrington, Philip

Seventh Bishop of Quebec; Eleventh Metropolitan of Canada; Acting Primate of All Canada.

Philip Carrington was born in Lichfield, England, in 1893. He moved to New Zealand at some point in his youth, and completed school there, receiving and B.A. (1912) and an M.A. (1913) from the University of New Zealand. He went back to England during the First World War to attend Cambridge University, receiving a B.A. in 1916. Upon returning to New Zealand, he was ordained deacon in 1918, then priest in 1919, and worked as curate of the Church of St. Luke the Evangelist in Christchurch, New Zealand, from 1918 to 1922. He became the vicar of Lincoln, New Zealand in 1922, and obtained an M.A. from Cambridge in 1923. That same year, he became the Examining Chaplain to the Bishop of Christchurch, until 1925. Also in 1923, he became the Warden of St. Barnabas' College, and a special preacher at St. Peter's Cathedral in Adelaide, South Australia. In 1927, he moved to Canada, and became the Dean of Divinity at Bishop's University in Lennoxville, Quebec. He received an honourary D.C.L. (1933) from Bishop's University, an honourary S.T.D. (1934) from Seabury Western Theological Seminary, and Lit.D. (1934) from the University of New Zealand. In 1935, he was consecrated Bishop of Quebec, and in 1944, became the Metropolitan of Canada and Archbishop of Quebec. He was made Acting Primate of all Canada in 1959, and retired in 1960. He passed away in 1975.