The Anglican Diocese of Moosonee is a diocese

Diocese

A diocese is the district or see under the supervision of a bishop. It is divided into parishes.An archdiocese is more significant than a diocese. An archdiocese is presided over by an archbishop whose see may have or had importance due to size or historical significance...

 of the Ecclesiastical Province of Ontario

Ecclesiastical Province of Ontario

The Ecclesiastical Province of Ontario is one of the Anglican Church of Canada's four ecclesiastical provinces. It was established in 1912 out of six dioceses of the Ecclesiastical Province of Canada located in the civil Province of Ontario, and the Diocese of Moosonee from the Ecclesiastical...

 of the Anglican Church of Canada

Anglican Church of Canada

The Anglican Church of Canada is the Province of the Anglican Communion in Canada. The official French name is l'Église Anglicane du Canada. The ACC is the third largest church in Canada after the Roman Catholic Church and the United Church of Canada, consisting of 800,000 registered members...

. Now headquartered in Timmins

Timmins

Timmins is a city in northeastern Ontario, Canada on the Mattagami River. At the time of the Canada 2006 Census, Timmins' population was 42,997...

, Ontario

Ontario

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 it was originally headquartered in Moose Factory

Moose Factory, Ontario

Moose Factory is a community in the Cochrane District, Ontario, Canada. It is on Moose Factory Island, near the mouth of the Moose River, which is at the southern end of James Bay. It was the first English-speaking settlement in Ontario and the second Hudson's Bay Company post to be set up in North...

. Its first bishop was the Right Rev. John Horden

John Horden

John Horden was the first Anglican Bishop of Moosonee. He is commemorated in the Calendar of Saints of the Episcopal Church and in the Calendar of Saints of the Anglican Church of Canada.-Early life:...

.

Following the retirement of the 8th Bishop of Moosonee, the Most Rev. Caleb Lawrence, in January 2010, an election synod was held on April 10, 2010, under the chairmanship of the Metropolitan of the Ecclesiastical Province of Ontario

Ecclesiastical Province of Ontario

The Ecclesiastical Province of Ontario is one of the Anglican Church of Canada's four ecclesiastical provinces. It was established in 1912 out of six dioceses of the Ecclesiastical Province of Canada located in the civil Province of Ontario, and the Diocese of Moosonee from the Ecclesiastical...

, the Most Rev. Colin Johnson

Colin Johnson

Colin Robert Johnson SCP is the current Anglican Archbishop of Toronto and the Metropolitan of the Ecclesiastical Province of Ontario. He is an alumnus of Trinity College in the University of Toronto and the 11th bishop of the diocese, the largest in the Anglican Church of Canada.Johnson was...

. The synod election Tom Corston to be the 9th Bishop of Moosonee. He was consecrated as a bishop and installed as Bishop of Moosonee on July 6, 2010.

Bishops

Bishop of Moosonee	Honorific and Name	Dates
1st	The Rt. Rev. John Horden John Horden John Horden was the first Anglican Bishop of Moosonee. He is commemorated in the Calendar of Saints of the Episcopal Church and in the Calendar of Saints of the Anglican Church of Canada.-Early life:...	1872–1893
2nd	The Rt. Rev. Jervois Arthur Newnham	1893-1904 (subsequently Bishop of Saskatchewan 1903-1921)
3rd	The Rt. Rev. George Holmes George Holmes George Holmes can refer to:* George Holmes , 3rd Bishop of Athabasca* George Holmes , Professor of Medieval History Emeritus at the University of Oxford* Dr. George Holmes, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Bolton...	1905–1909
4th	The Most Rev. John George Anderson John George Anderson John George Anderson was an Canadian Anglican priest in the first half of the 20th century. He was born in Orkney, Saskatchewan on 23 March 1866, educated at St. John's College, University of Manitoba and ordained in 1889 after which he was a CMS missionary at Long Sault then Vicar of St Peter’s,...	1909-1943 (Metropolitan of Ontario 1940-1943)
5th	The Most Rev. Robert John Renison Robert John Renison Robert John Renison was an Anglican bishop in the mid 20th century.He was born in Cashel, County Tipperary into an ecclesiastical family on 8 September 1875 and educated at Trinity College School and the University of Toronto. Ordained in 1896, his first position was as a curate at the Church of...	1943-1954 (Metropolitan of Ontario 1952-1954)
6th	The Rt. Rev. Cuthbert Cooper Robinson	1955–1963
7th	The Most Rev. James Augustus Watton	1963-1980 (Metropolitan of Ontario 1974-1979)
8th	The Most Rev. Caleb James Lawrence	1980-2010 (Metropolitan of Ontario 2004-2009)
9th	The Right Rev. Tom Corston	2010-present

External links

• Diocese of Moosonee official website