Ecclesiastical Province of Rupert's Land

The Ecclesiastical Province of Rupert's Land was founded in 1875 and is one of four ecclesiastical provinces in the Anglican Church of Canada. The territory covered by the province is roughly coterminous with the western portion of the former Hudson's Bay Company concession of Rupert's Land, as well as the North-Western Territory of British North America. It today consists of the present day provinces of Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba, as well as the extreme western portion of Ontario and the Nunavik area of Quebec. It also includes all of the territories of Nunavut and the Northwest Territories.

At almost 6.5 million square kilometres, it is the largest ecclesiastical province by area in the country, and was even larger in the past. The Diocese of Moosonee was joined to the Ecclesiastical Province of Ontario in 1912; until it formed its own ecclesiastical province in 1914, the five dioceses in British Columbia were part of Rupert's Land; and until 1943 (when it joined the Province of British Columbia), so was the Diocese of Selkirk (afterward, the Anglican Diocese of Yukon).

There are presently ten dioceses in the province:

• Athabasca (Alberta)
• Arctic (Northwest Territories, Nunavut, and Nunavik (northern Quebec))
• Brandon (Manitoba)
• Calgary (Alberta)
• Edmonton (Alberta)
• Keewatin (Manitoba and northwestern Ontario, north of the 49th parallel)
• Qu'Appelle (Saskatchewan) (corresponding to the pre-1905 District of Assiniboia in the Northwest Territories)
• Rupert's Land (Manitoba)
• Saskatchewan (Saskatchewan)
• Saskatoon (Saskatchewan)

Metropolitan

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 is the Most Rev. David Ashdown who is Archbishop of Keewatin.

Metropolitans of Rupert's Land

	Honorific & Name	Dates	Diocese
1st	The Most Rev. Robert Machray	1875–1904	Rupert's Land
2nd	The Most Rev. Samuel Pritchard Matheson	1905–1931	Rupert's Land
3rd	The Most Rev. Isaac Stringer	1931–1934	Rupert's Land
4th	The Most Rev. Malcolm Taylor McAdam Harding	1935–1942	Rupert's Land
5th	The Most Rev. Louis Ralph Sherman	1943–1953	Rupert's Land
6th	The Most Rev. Walter Foster Barfoot	1954–1960	Rupert's Land
7th	The Most Rev. Howard Hewlett Clark	1961–1969	Rupert's Land
8th	The Most Rev. George Clarence Fredric Jackson	1970–1977	Qu'Appelle
9th	The Most Rev. Frederick Hugh Wright Crabb	1977–1982	Athabasca
10th	The Most Rev. Michael Geoffrey Peers	1982–1986	Qu'Appelle
11th	The Most Rev. Edwin Kent Clarke	1986–1987	Edmonton
12th	The Most Rev. Walter Heath Jones	1988–1993	Rupert's Land
13th	The Most Rev. John Barry Curtis	1994–1999	Calgary
14th	The Most Rev. Thomas Oliver Morgan	2000–2003	Saskatoon
15th	The Most Rev. John Robert Clarke	2003–2008	Athabasca
16th	The Most Rev. David Ashdown	2009–	Keewatin

See also

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

External links

• Provincial website