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Edward John Bidwell
Edward John Bidwell (26 November 1866 – 11 August 1941) was an English Anglican clergyman, who served as Bishop of Ontario from 1917 to 1926. Biography He was born into an ecclesiastical family — his father was George Bidwell, sometime Rector of Simpson, Buckinghamshire, United Kingdom. He was educated at Bradfield and Wadham College, Oxford. Ordained in 1892 he was successively headmaster of the ''Preparatory School, Leamington College'' and then the ''Cathedral Grammar School, Peterborough''. In 1903 he emigrated to Canada to be headmaster of ''Bishop's College School, Lennoxville'' before being appointed Dean of Ontario in 1909, a post he held for eight years. From 1913 to 1917 he was Bishop suffragan of Kingston and coadjutor bishop to William Mills in the Diocese of Ontario. He succeeded Mills as Bishop of Ontario in 1917. He stepped down as bishop in 1926. Having returned to England, he served as Vicar of Sellindge, Kent from 1930 to 1941. He was additionally an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anglican Archbishops And Bishops Of Canada (Edward Bidwell Cropped)
Anglicanism is a Western Christianity, Western Christian tradition that has developed from the practices, liturgy, and identity of the Church of England following the English Reformation, in the context of the Protestant Reformation in Europe. It is one of the largest branches of Christianity, with around 110 million adherents worldwide . Adherents of Anglicanism are called ''Anglicans''; they are also called ''Episcopalians'' in some countries. The majority of Anglicans are members of national or regional Ecclesiastical province#Anglican Communion, ecclesiastical provinces of the international Anglican Communion, which forms the third-largest Christian Communion (Christian), communion in the world, after the Roman Catholic Church and the Eastern Orthodox Church. These provinces are in full communion with the See of Canterbury and thus with the Archbishop of Canterbury, whom the communion refers to as its ''Primus inter pares#Anglican Communion, primus inter pares'' (Latin, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
