George Holmes (bishop)

George Holmes was an English-born Anglican bishop in Canada from 1905 to 1912.

[1][2] Holmes was born in Kendal, Westmorland on 23 November 1858[3] and ordained in 1887[4] after which he was a Church Mission Society (CMS) missionary in the Northwest Territories.

In 1901 he became Archdeacon of Athabasca[5] and four years later was ordained to the episcopate as the Bishop of Moosonoe.

[6] He died on 3 February 1912 and was buried at Highgate Cemetery.

[7] This article about a Canadian Anglican bishop is a stub.