Charles James Stewart (13 or 16 April 1775 – 13 July 1837) was an

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, clergyman,

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, and politician. He was the second Bishop of Quebec from 1826 to 1837, and in connection with this was appointed to the

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. Born in

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, the third surviving son of John Stewart, 7th

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, and his second wife, Anne Dashwood, Stewart was a member of

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when he graduated Bachelor of Arts in 1795 and a fellow of

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when this matured to an M.A. in 1799. He was ordained to the Anglican ministry in the

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in December 1798 and to the priesthood in May 1799. From 1799 to 1826, he was Rector of Orton Longueville in

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. In 1807, he arrived in

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as a missionary, settling in

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. He soon moved to Saint-Armand and helped to build Trinity Church, Frelighsburg, the first regular place of Anglican worship in the

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. In 1826, he was appointed Bishop of Quebec. He died in London in 1837, and is buried there in

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* * 1775 births 1837 deaths Anglican clergy from London Alumni of Corpus Christi College, Oxford Anglican bishops of Quebec Burials at Kensal Green Cemetery 19th-century Anglican Church of Canada bishops Fellows of All Souls College, Oxford Members of the Legislative Council of Lower Canada Anglophone Quebec people Younger sons of earls {{ChurchofEngland-bishop-stub