The Diocese of Cariboo was a

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 British Columbia and the Yukon The Ecclesiastical Province of British Columbia and Yukon is one of four ecclesiastical provinces in the Anglican Church of Canada. It was founded in 1914 as the Ecclesiastical Province of British Columbia, but changed its name in 1943 when the D ...

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 ...

. Incorporated in 1914, the diocese ceased operations on December 31, 2001 when the financial strain of legal costs from third party claims made by the Government of Canada, associated with damage suits brought by former students of the Anglican-run St George's Indian Residential School in Lytton, B.C., exhausted the diocese financially. The parishes of the former Diocese of Cariboo were formed into the

Anglican Parishes of the Central Interior The Territory of the People (previously called the Anglican Parishes of the Central Interior until 2016)

and were overseen by a Suffragan Bishop to the Metropolitan. Barbara Andrews, formerly Director of the Sorrento Retreat and Conference Centre in British Columbia, was elected Suffragan Bishop for the APCI on 30 June 2009 in succession to Gordon Light who served from 2004 to 2008. Andrews was consecrated at St Paul's Cathedral, Kamloops, on October 18, 2009. The future organisational arrangements for the Anglican Parishes of the Central Interior are under investigation by the new bishop, who has identified a clear desire for autonomy on the part of the constituent parishes while appreciating the controversial nature of the re-establishment of a diocesan model. In 2016 the APCI reorganized itself into the

Territory of the People The Territory of the People (previously called the Anglican Parishes of the Central Interior until 2016)

Bishops of the Diocese of Cariboo

From 1914 to 1925 the diocesan was Adam de Pencier, Bishop of Cariboo with New Westminster, until a sufficient endowment was raised for the election of the 1st Bishop of Cariboo. * Walter Adams, first Bishop of Cariboo, 1925–1934 * George Wells, second Bishop of Cariboo, 1934–1941 * Samuel Pollinger, third Bishop of Cariboo, 1941–1943 * Frederic Stanford, fourth Bishop of Cariboo, 1943–1953 *

Ralph Dean Ralph Stanley Dean (1913, London23 August 1987) was the fifth Bishop of Cariboo and sixth Metropolitan of British Columbia. Dean was born in London in 1913, educated at The John Roan School and ordained in 1939. After curacies at St Mary, Isli ...

, fifth Bishop of Cariboo, 1953–1973 (on leave as Executive Officer of the Anglican Communion, 1964–1969; Metropolitan of the Province of British Columbia and the Yukon, 1971–1973) ** Tom Greenwood, Assistant Bishop, 1965–1969 * John Snowden, sixth Bishop of Cariboo, 1974–1991 *

Jim Cruickshank James Fergus Cruickshank (13 April 1941 – 18 November 2010) was a Scottish footballer who played as a goalkeeper. He played for Heart of Midlothian through most of the 1960s and 1970s, making nearly 400 league appearances. He had brief spe ...

, seventh Bishop of Cariboo, 1992–2001 Source: Archives of the Diocese of Cariboo
The British Columbia Archival Information Network

References

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