Medley, John

First Bishop of Fredericton; Third Metropolitan of Canada.

John Medley was born in London, England in 1804, and obtained a B.A. from Oxford University in 1826. He married Christina Bacon that same year, and the couple would have seven children before Christina died in 1841. Medley was ordained deacon in 1828, then priest in 1829. He was Perpetual curate of St. John's, in Truro, England until 1831, and obtained his M.A. from Oxford in 1830. He published The Episcopal Form of Church Government in 1935, and assisted in translating the Homilies of St John Chrysotom on the Corinthians in 1938. He was a prebendery of Exeter Cathedral from 1838 to 1845, when he was consecrated Bishop of Fredericton, New Brunswick. He married again in 1863 to a woman called Margaret Hudson, and received a D.D. from the University of King's College in Windsor, Nova Scotia in 1864. He also received several honourary degrees, including a B.D. and D.D. (both 1845) from Oxford; a D.D. (1888) from Durham; a LL.D. (1888) from Cambridge; and a D.C.L. (1890) from University of King's College. He became the Metropolitan of Canada in 1879, and passed away in Fredericton in 1892.