The Diocese of Mackenzie River was a short-lived
diocese
In Ecclesiastical polity, church governance, a diocese or bishopric is the ecclesiastical district under the jurisdiction of a bishop.
History
In the later organization of the Roman Empire, the increasingly subdivided Roman province, pro ...
of the
Ecclesiastical Province of Rupert's Land
The Ecclesiastical Province of Rupert's Land, founded in 1875, forms one of four ecclesiastical provinces in the Anglican Church of Canada.
Territorial evolution
The territory covered by the province is roughly coterminous with the western por ...
of the
Anglican Church of Canada
The Anglican Church of Canada (ACC or ACoC) is the Ecclesiastical province#Anglican Communion, province of the Anglican Communion in Canada. The official French-language name is ''l'Église anglicane du Canada''. In 2017, the Anglican Church co ...
.
It was created in 1884 by splitting the
Diocese of Athabasca into two, and was itself subdivided in 1891 to create the
Diocese of Selkirk
The Diocese of Yukon is a diocese of the Ecclesiastical Province of British Columbia and Yukon of the Anglican Church of Canada. It comprises 14 congregations serving 24 communities in the Yukon and parts of northern British Columbia.
The Diocese ...
(later renamed Yukon). The remainder was merged into the
Diocese of Arctic when the latter diocese was created in 1933.
Bishops of Mackenzie River
* 1884–1891:
William Bompas
* 1891–1907:
William Reeve
* 1907–1912: ''interregnum''
* 1912–1926:
James Lucas
* 1928–1933:
William Geddes
References
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