Mills, William Lennox

Coadjutor Bishop of Ontario; Second Bishop of Ontario.

William Lennox Mills was born in Woodstock, Ontario in 1846. He attended Huron College and Western University in London, Ontario, and was ordained deacon in 1872. He served as Incumbent of Norwich, Ontario, and was ordained priest in 1873. In 1874, he became the Rector of Seaforth, Ontario; then of St. John's, Quebec in 1875; then Trinity Church, Montreal in 1882, which he held until 1896. He was also a Canon of Christ Church Cathedral in Montreal from 1883 to 1896, and received a B.D. from the University of Trinity College, Toronto, in 1884. He lectured at the Montreal Diocesan College on Dogmatic Theology from 1884 to 1895, and was Examining Chaplain to the Bishop of Montreal from 1885 to 1900. Mills earned a D.D. from the University of Trinity College in 1894, and married Katharine Sophia Bagg in 1896. He was Archdeacon of St. Andrew's, Montreal from 1896 to 1900, and was granted a D.D. (ad eundem) from the University of Bishop's College, Lennoxville, Quebec in 1897. He was consecrated Bishop of Kingston in 1900, and succeeded to the See of Ontario on the death of the Archbishop in 1901. It was then that he received honourary degrees from Queen's University (LL.D., 1901); the University of Trinity College (D.C.L., 1901); and the University of Bishop's College (D.C.L., 1903). He passed away in Kingston in 1917.