George Holmes was an English-born Anglican bishop in Canada from 1905 to 1912.Christian Episcopal, Canada National Church Institutions Database of Manuscripts and Archives
Holmes was born in Kendal, Westmorland on 23 November 1858Who was Who 1897-1990, London, A & C Black, 1991, and ordained in 1887The Clergy List, Clerical Guide and Ecclesiastical Directory, London, Hamilton & Co, 1889 after which he was a Church Mission Society (CMS) missionary in the Northwest Territories. In 1901 he became Archdeacon of AthabascaDictionary of Canadian Biography and four years later was ordained to the episcopate as the Bishop of Moosonoe. He was translated to the Diocese of Athabasca in 1909.The Times, 4 February 1909, p. 7, "Ecclesiastical Intelligence" He died on 3 February 1912 and was buried at Highgate Cemetery."Obituary: The Bishop Of Athabasca", The Times, 5 February 1912, p. 11.
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