Misplaced Pages

George Thorneloe

Article snapshot taken from Wikipedia with creative commons attribution-sharealike license. Give it a read and then ask your questions in the chat. We can research this topic together.
Canadian Anglican bishop
George Thorneloe
Bishop of Algoma, Metropolitan of Ontario, Archbishop of Algoma
The Right Reverend George Thorneloe in c.1924
ChurchAnglican Church of Canada
MetropolisOntario
DioceseDiocese of Algoma
In office1897–1927
PredecessorEdward Sullivan
SuccessorRocksborough Smith
Orders
Ordination1875
by Bishop Williams
Personal details
Born(1848-10-04)October 4, 1848
Coventry, England
DiedAugust 3, 1935(1935-08-03) (aged 86)
Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario
BuriedMalvern Cemetery, Lennoxville, Quebec
NationalityBritish
DenominationAnglicanism
SpouseMary Fuller
ChildrenWalter Thorneloe, Katharine Isobel Louise Thorneloe

George Thorneloe (4 October 1848 – 3 August 1935) was a Canadian Anglican bishop at the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th.

Biography

Thorneloe was born in Coventry, England on October 4, 1848. He emigrated to Canada alongside his parents in 1858. His father was a Wesleyan Methodist minister, who was later ordained in the Anglican Church. In 1875 Thorneloe married Mary Fuller, whom he had two children with.

Thorneloe was educated at Bishop's College, Lennoxville where he graduated with a First Class in Classics and won the Prince of Wales Medal. He was ordained in 1874 by Bishop Williams. He was a missionary at Stanstead in Quebec Province until 1885 when he became Rector of St Peter's Sherbrooke. While at St. Peter's Thorneloe was made a canon of the Cathedral of the Holy Trinity, Quebec City. He was almost elected as Bishop of Quebec and Bishop of the Diocese of New Westminster, British Columbia.

In 1896 he was elected as the third Bishop of Algoma. He was consecrated as Bishop on January 6, 1897, in the Cathedral of the Holy Trinity, Quebec City by Bishop Bond of Montreal. In 1915 he also became Metropolitan of Ontario and Archbishop of Algoma. Thorneloe held is positions as Bishop and Metropolitan until he resigned in 1927 due to ill health.

Thorneloe died on 3 August 1935. A memorial service was held for him at St. Luke's Anglican Pro-Cathedral in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario. He was buried in Malvern Cemetery, Lennoxville, Quebec. A limestone baptismal font in the bapitistry of St. Luke's Cathedral memorializes the work of Thorneloe.

Awards and honors

Thorneloe's work was recognized in numerous ways including:

External links

References

  1. ^ "DioceseofAlgoma (history)". Archived from the original on 21 November 2010. Retrieved 1 September 2010.
  2. ^ Algoma 100 1873-1973: A Documentary Commemorating the Centennial of the Diocese of Algoma. Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario: Diocese of Algoma. 1973. p. 47.
  3. Project Canterbury
  4. "Who was Who"1897-1990, London, A & C Black, 1991, ISBN 0-7136-3457-X
  5. "The Clergy List, Clerical Guide and Ecclesiastical Directory", London, Hamilton & Co 1889
  6. The Times, 10 December 1896, p9, "Ecclesiastical Intelligence"
  7. Anglican bishops of Canada
  8. The Times, 24 September 1926, p12, "Canadian Archbishop Resigns"
  9. "Obituary: Dr. George Thorneloe Former Metropolitan Of Ontario", The Times, 6 August 1935, p12
  10. ^ "Archbishop George Thorneloe fonds". Engracia De Jesus Matias Archives and Special Collections. Retrieved 7 October 2016.
  11. Algoma 100 1873-1973: A Documentary Commemorating the Centennial of the Diocese of Algoma. Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario: Diocese of Algoma. 1973. p. 60.
  12. "Our Campus in the 1960s". Laurentian University. Retrieved 7 October 2016.
  13. Rural Routes
Religious titles
Preceded byEdward Sullivan Bishop of Algoma
1897–1927 		Succeeded byRocksborough Smith
Preceded byCharles Hamilton Metropolitan of Ontario
1915–1927 		Succeeded byDavid Williams
Bishops of Algoma
Metropolitans of Ontario


Stub icon

This article about a Canadian Anglican bishop is a stub. You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it.

Categories: