Scriven, Augustine

Fourth Bishop of British Columbia.

Augustine Scriven was born in Spernall, Warwickshire, England in 1850. In 1870, he was a Dyke Scholar at St. Mary's Hall in Oxford University, and he obtained a B.A. in 1873. He was ordained deacon in 1875 in Manchester, then priest in 1876. He was the curate of Kirkham, Lancashire from 1875 to 1878, then held three more curacies in Kent, Devon, and Rochester between 1879 and 1884, before becoming Rector of St. James' Church in Victoria, British Columbia in 1884, a post he held until 1895. He was made an honourary canon of Christ Church Cathedral, Victoria at the same time (until 1905), as well as Archdeacon of Vancouver (until 1915). He was granted an M.A. in absentia in 1888. In 1915, he was consecrated Bishop of British Columbia, and was granted an honourary D.D. from Oxford in 1916. He passed away that year in Sandwick, British Columbia.