Grisdale, John

Third Bishop of Qu'Appelle.

John Grisdale was born in Bolton, England. He was ordained deacon in 1870, and was missionary to Calcutta (Kolkata), India, from 1870 to 1871, then did temporary work for the Church Missionary Society in England from 1871 to 1873. He was ordained priest in 1872, and was incumbent of St. Andrew's, Manitoba from 1873 to 1874. He then became a Professor of Systemic Theology at St. John's College in Winnipeg, as well as a Canon of St. John's Cathedral, from 1874 to 1882. He received an honourary D.D. from Lambeth in 1875, and was the secretary for the Provincial Synod of Rupert's Land from 1875 to 1883. From 1882 to 1896, he was a Professor of Pastoral Theology at St. John's College; the Dean of Rupert's Land; and the Prolocutor of the Lower House of the Provincial Synod of the Ecclesiastical Province of Rupert's Land. He received an honourary D.C.L. in 1893 from the University of Trinity College, Toronto. He was consecrated Bishop of Qu'Appelle in 1896, a position he held until 1911, when he resigned. He continued to give Episcopal assistance to the Archbishop of Rupert's Land until his death in 1922 in Winnipeg.