Home Dioceses in the Province of Canada Canons of the Province of Canada ... Webmaster Team The Anglican Church of Canada LÉglise Anglicane du Canada The Province of Canada Letters Patent (Extract) Extract from the Letters Patent of Her Majesty, under the Great Seal, Appointing the Lord Bishop of Montreal and his successors in that See, Metropolitans of the Church of England in Canada VICTORIA, by the Grace of God, of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, Queen, Defender of the Faith; To all to whom these Presents shall come, Greeting: ... And whereas the numbers, both of Bishops, and Clergy, and Laity, of the United Church of England and Ireland, in our Province of Canada, have of late years greatly increased, and are increasing: And whereas there are four separate Sees, Dioceses and Bishoprics duly erected and constituted in the said Province - that is to say the Bishopric of Quebec, the Bishopric of Toronto, the Bishopric of Montreal, and the Bishopric of Huron - whereof one is the said Diocese and Bishopric of Montreal: And whereas we have been graciously pleased to give our royal assent (which was duly proclaimed in Canada on the twenty-eighth day of May, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty-seven) to an Act passed as aforesaid in the session of the Provincial Parliament of Canada, holden in the nineteenth and twentieth years of our reign, intituled "An Act to enable the members of the United Church of England and Ireland in Canada to meet in Synod:" | |
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