Diocese of British Columbia
Bishop Name Dates
1st George Hills 1859-1892
2nd William Perrin 1893-1911
3rd Charles Roper 1912-1915
4th Augustine Scriven 1915-1916
5th Charles Schofield 1916-1936
6th Harold Sexton 1936-1967
7th John Anderson 1967-1969
8th Frederick Gartrell 1969-1979
9th Hywel Jones 1979-1984
10th Ron Shepherd 1984-1991
11th Barry Jenks 1992-2002
12th James Cowan 2004-2012
13th Logan McMenamie 2014-2020
Bishops of British Columbia
The Diocese of British Columbia is a diocese of the Ecclesiastical Province of British Columbia and Yukon of the Anglican Church of Canada. Despite the name, the diocese comprises only the 32,630 square kilometres of Vancouver Island and the adjacent Gulf Islands in the civil Province of British Columbia. Its see city is Victoria, and it presently maintains fifty-five parishes serving nearly 13,000 Anglicans. The diocese was established in 1859, and is the oldest in the ecclesiastical province, once extending over the entire civil province of British Columbia, hence the origin of its name. Its first bishop was George Hills. In 1866, there were two archdeaconries: H. P. Wright was Archdeacon of Columbia and Samuel Gilson of Vancouver. Notable parishes include Christ Church Cathedral and the Church of St. John the Divine, both in Victoria. The current bishop is Logan McMenamie.