Rensselaer Journal, Volume 10, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 April 1901 — Metropolitan of Canada. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Metropolitan of Canada.

Bishop Bond of Montreal. has just keen selected by the house of bishops of the Church of England in Canada to

succeed Archbishop Lewis as metropolitan. He will hereafter be known as lord archbishop of Montreal and metropolitan of Canada, having jurisdiction over the territory from the western limits of Ontario to the Atlantic ocean. Archbishop Lewis, who has been seriously ill at New York, but it recovering, will be permitted the courtesy title of archbishop metropolitan while he lives, but it will not be officially employed. The new metropolitan of Canada has been bishop of Montreal since 1878. He was born at Truro, England, in 1815, and emigrated from England to Newfoundland when he was 19. In 1840 he was ordained a deacon of the Anglican church and a priest one year later. His early ministry was spent in organizing mission stations in the province of Quebec. His first important charge was that of St. George’s at Montreal. He is president of the Montreal Theological College and one of the most scholarly divines In Canada.

BISHOP BOND.