Robert Jefferson

Robert Jefferson (11 July 1881 – 1 January 1968) was a Canadian Anglican bishop in the mid-20th century.[1]

This article is about the Canadian Anglican bishop. For Rowley Jefferson’s father with this name, see List of Diary of a Wimpy Kid characters § Mr. Jefferson.

Jefferson was educated at St John's College, Manitoba[2] and ordained in 1908.[3] He began his ordained ministry with curacies in Edmonton and Winnipeg. He held incumbencies in Montague and Ottawa. He was a Canon at Ottawa Cathedral from 1926 to 1939, when he became Bishop of Ottawa. He resigned his See in 1954.

References
  1. Anglican Bishops of Ottawa
  2. 'JEFFERSON, Rt Rev. Robert', Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2015; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2014 ; online edn, April 2014 accessed 1 Sept 2015
  3. Crockford's Clerical Directory1951–52 p970: Oxford, OUP,1951



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