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 (ie., southern and eastern Quebec), the Maritimes, and Newfoundland and Labrador. 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. Claude W. Miller, Archbishop of Fredericton.

Metropolitans of Canada

	Name	Diocese	Dates
1st	The Rt. Rev. Francis Fulford	Bishop of Montreal	1861-1868
2nd	The Rt. Rev. Ashton Oxenden	Bishop of Montreal	1869-1878
3rd	The Rt. John Medley	Bishop of Fredericton	1879-1892
4th	The Most Rev. John Travers Lewis	Archbishop of Ontario	1893-1900
5th	The Most Rev. William Bennett Bond	Archbishop of Montreal	1901-1906
6th	The Most Rev. Arthur Sweatman	Archbishop of Toronto	1907-1909
7th	The Most Rev. Charles Hamilton	Archbishop of Ottawa	1909-1912
8th	The Most Rev. Clarendon Lamb Worrell	Archbishop of Nova Scotia	1915-1934
9th	The Most Rev. John Andrew Richardson	Archbishop of Fredericton	1934-1938
10th	The Most Rev. John HacKenley	Archbishop of Nova Scotia	1939-1943
11th	The Most Rev. Philip Carrington	Archbishop of Quebec	1944-1960
12th	The Most Rev. John Harkness Dixon	Archbishop of Montreal	1960-1962
13th	The Most Rev. Alexander Henry O'Neil	Archbishop of Fredericton	1963-1972
14th	The Most Rev. William Wallace Davis	Archbishop of Nova Scotia	1972-1975
15th	The Most Rev. Robert Lowder Seaborn	Archbishop of Newfoundland (later Archbishop of Eastern Newfoundland and Labrador)	1975-1980
16th	The Most Rev. Harold Lee Nutter	Archbishop of Fredericton	1980-1989
17th	The Most Rev. Reginald Hollis	Archbishop of Montreal	1989-1990
18th	The Most Rev. Stewart Payne	Archbishop of Western Newfoundland	1990-1997
19th	The Most Rev. Arthur Gordon Peters	Archbishop of Nova Scotia	1997-2002
20th	The Most Rev. Andrew Sandford Hutchison	Archbishop of Montreal	2002-2004
21st	The Most Rev. Bruce Stavert	Archbishop of Quebec	2004-2009
22nd	The Most Rev. Claude Weston Miller	Archbishop of Fredericton	2009-

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