Ecclesiastical Province of Canada

The Ecclesiastical Province of Canada was founded in 1860 and is one of four ecclesiastical provinces in the Anglican Church of Canada. Despite its name, the province covers only the former territory of Lower Canada (i.e., southern and eastern Quebec), the Maritimes, and Newfoundland and Labrador (Ontario was split off as a separate province in 1913). There are seven dioceses in the province:

• Montreal (Quebec),
• Quebec (whose borders are consistent with Lower Canada outside of Montreal),
• Fredericton (New Brunswick),
• Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island (Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island),
• Western Newfoundland (Newfoundland and Labrador),
• Central Newfoundland (Newfoundland and Labrador), and
• Eastern Newfoundland and Labrador (Newfoundland and Labrador).

Provinces of the Anglican Church of Canada are headed by a Metropolitan, elected from among the province's diocesan bishops. This bishop then becomes Archbishop of his or her diocese and Metropolitan of the Province. The current Metropolitan of the Province of Canada is the Most Rev. Percy D. Coffin, Archbishop of Western Newfoundland.

From 1861 until the erection of the Ecclesiastical Province of Rupert's Land in 1875, the Bishop of Montreal was metropolitan over all of the Canadian dioceses. A broadly equivalent role was eventually resumed by the Primate of All Canada. After 1878, the role of metropolitan of the (reduced) province of Canada became one elected from among the diocesan bishops of the province.

Metropolitans of Canada

Order	Name	Diocese	Dates	Notes
1st	Francis Fulford	Bishop of Montreal	1861–1868
2nd	Ashton Oxenden	Bishop of Montreal	1869–1878
3rd	John Medley	Bishop of Fredericton	1879–1892
4th	John Lewis	Archbishop of Ontario	1893–1900
5th	William Bond	Archbishop of Montreal	1901–1906	Primate of All Canada, 1904–1906
6th	Arthur Sweatman	Archbishop of Toronto	1907–1909
7th	Charles Hamilton	Archbishop of Ottawa	1909–1912
8th	Clarendon Worrell	Archbishop of Nova Scotia	1915–1934	Primate of All Canada, 1931–1934
9th	John Richardson	Archbishop of Fredericton	1934–1938
10th	John Hackenley	Archbishop of Nova Scotia	1939–1943
11th	Philip Carrington	Archbishop of Quebec	1944–1960
12th	John Dixon	Archbishop of Montreal	1960–1962
13th	Henry O'Neil	Archbishop of Fredericton	1963–1972
14th	William Davis	Archbishop of Nova Scotia	1972–1975
15th	Robert Seaborn	Archbishop of Newfoundland (later Archbishop of Eastern Newfoundland and Labrador)	1975–1980
16th	Harold Nutter	Archbishop of Fredericton	1980–1989
17th	Reginald Hollis	Archbishop of Montreal	1989–1990
18th	Stewart Payne	Archbishop of Western Newfoundland	1990–1997
19th	Arthur Peters	Archbishop of Nova Scotia	1997–2002
20th	Andrew Hutchison	Archbishop of Montreal	2002–2004	Primate of the Anglican Church of Canada, 2004–2007
21st	Bruce Stavert	Archbishop of Quebec	2004–2009
22nd	Claude Miller	Archbishop of Fredericton	2009–2014
23rd	Percy Coffin	Archbishop of Western Newfoundland	2014–present

See also

• Ecclesiastical provinces of the Anglican Church of Canada
• List of dioceses of the Anglican Church of Canada

External links

• The province's website