Arthur Carlisle Explained

Type:Bishop
Honorific-Prefix:The Right Reverend
Arthur Carlisle
Bishop of Montreal
Church:Anglican Church of Canada
See:Montreal
Term:1939 - 1943
Predecessor:John Farthing (bishop)
Successor:John Dixon (bishop)
Ordination:1904 [1]
Consecration:25 April 1939 [2]
Consecrated By:D.T. Owen [3]
Birth Date:29 November 1881
Birth Place:Portsmouth
Death Date:5 January 1943 [4]
Death Place:Montreal

Arthur Carlisle (29 November 1881  - 5 January 1943) was the 6th[5] Anglican Bishop of Montreal from 1939 to 1943.

Early life and education

Carlisle was born in Portsmouth on 29 November 1881, and emigrated to London, Ontario with his parents where he was educated at the Collegiate Institute and Huron University College at Western Ontario University[6] before studying for ordination and embarking on a curacy at Memorial Church in his adopted home city. From there he was successively Rector of Holy Trinity Church, Lucan and All Saints Church Windsor before wartime service as Chaplain with the 18th Battalion of the Canadian Expeditionary Force, during which time he held the rank of Captain.[7]

Career

When hostilities ceased he returned again to London to become Canon of St. Paul's Cathedral . From there he moved in 1921 to Montreal where he was to spend the rest of his ecclesiastical career. The large part of this was as Dean of Montreal at the Cathedral Church and at the outbreak of the Second World War (1939) elevation to that See's Bishopric. He died four years later on January 5, 1943, "one of the most distinguished and highly respected clergymen in Canada".[8]

See also

References

  1. "Prominent People of the Province of Quebec" 1923-24 Montreal, Biographical Society of Canada, Limited, 1924, unpaginated http://faculty.marianopolis.edu/c.belanger/quebechistory/encyclopedia/ArthurCarlisle.htm
  2. [The Montreal Gazette]
  3. [The Montreal Gazette]
  4. [The Montreal Gazette]
  5. https://archive.today/20120907073806/http://www.montreal.anglican.ca/z2bsp/bsp_past.htm List of Anglican Bishops of Montreal
  6. "Who was Who" 1897-1990 London, A & C Black, 1991
  7. Web site: Captain Arthur Carlisle.
  8. [The Times]