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Manitoba Organization: Diocese of Rupert’s Land

The Diocese of Rupert’s Land was founded in 1849.

Bishops

Period

Bishop

1865-1904

Robert Machray (1831-1904)

1905-1931

Samuel Pritchard Matheson (1852-1942)

1931-1934

Isaac O. Stringer (1866-1934)

1934-1942

Malcolm Taylor MacAdam Harding (1863-1949)

1943-1953

Louis Ralph Sherman (1886-1953)

1954-1960

Walter Foster Barfoot (1893-1978)

1961-1969

Howard Hewlett Clark (1903-1983)

1970-1977

George Frederic Clarence Jackson (1907-?)

1977-1982

Frederick Hugh Wright Crabb

1982-1986

Michael Geoffrey Peers

Sources:

“Edmonton Archbishop to succeed Barfoot,” Winnipeg Free Press, 26 January 1961.

Guide to the Holdings of the Archives of Rupert’s Land, Records of the Anglican Church of Canada, No. 1, by Wilma MacDonald, St. John’s College Press, 1986, page 3.

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Page revised: 17 July 2022
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