Holmes, George

Third Bishop of Moosonee; Third Bishop of Athabasca.

George Holmes was born in the Parish of Burton in Kendal, Westmoreland, England, in 1858. He was educated in Reading and Islington, England, and was ordained deacon in 1887 in Dunvegan, Alberta, and priest in Fort Vermillion, N.W. Canada in 1888. He was the Priest in Charge of St. Peter's Mission, Lesser Slave Lake, in N.W. Canada from 1887 to 1905. He married Eliza Perkes in 1892, and became Archdeacon of Athabasca in 1901. He was consecrated Bishop of Moosonee in 1905, and received an honourary D.D. from St. John's College in Winnipeg, Manitoba. He was translated to the See of Athabasca in 1901, and passed away in 1912 at St. Barnabas' Vicarage, Holloway, London, England.