| Type: | Bishop |
| Honorific Prefix: | The Most Reverend |
| Adam de Pencier | |
| Metropolitan of British Columbia and Archbishop of New Westminster | |
| Church: | Anglican Church of Canada |
| Province: | British Columbia |
| Diocese: | New Westminster |
| Term: | 1925–1940 |
| Predecessor: | Frederick Du Vernet (as metropolitan) John Dart (as bishop) |
| Successor: | Walter Adams (as metropolitan) Francis Heathcote (as bishop) |
| Ordination: | 1890 |
| Consecration: | 1910 |
| Birth Date: | 1866 |
| Previous Post: | Bishop of New Westminster, 1910–1925 |
Adam Urias de Pencier [1] (1866-1949) was the third Bishop of New Westminster and second Archbishop and Metropolitan of British Columbia.[2]
Born in 1866, he was the great-great grandson of Charles I, Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel through his ancestor Christian Theodor von Pincier.[3] He was educated at Trinity College in Toronto.
De Prencier was ordained in 1890.[4] He held incumbencies at St Matthew's, Brandon and St Paul's, Vancouver.[5] He was appointed Bishop, and later Archbishop of the Diocese of New Westminster in 1910 for British Columbia.[6] While serving as bishop, he founded St. John's Shaughnessy on the grounds of the bishop's residence.[7] Prior to retiring in 1940, he was awarded an Honorary Doctor of Laws by the University of British Columbia and the Order of the British Empire by King George V.[8] [9]