Robert Renison

The Most Reverend

Robert Renison
ChurchChurch of England in Canada
ProvinceOntario
DioceseMoosonee
Installed1952
Orders
Ordination
  • 1898 (deacon)
  • 1899 (priest)
Consecration1931
Personal details
Born
Robert John Renison

(1875-09-08)8 September 1875
Cashel, County Tipperary, Ireland
Died6 October 1957(1957-10-06) (aged 82)
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
NationalityCanadian/British
DenominationAnglican
SpouseElisabeth Maud Bristol
Alma materUniversity of Toronto
Coat of armsRobert Renison's coat of arms

Robert John Renison (8 September 1875 – 6 October 1957) was an Irish-born Anglican bishop who worked in Canada.[1]

Renison was born in Cashel, County Tipperary into an ecclesiastical family on 8 September 1875[2] and educated at Trinity College School and the University of Toronto. Ordained in 1896,[3] his first position was as a curate at the Church of the Messiah, Toronto,[4] after which he was a missionary at Fort Albany. He was the Archdeacon of Moosonee and, after World War I service,[5] the Archdeacon of Hamilton. He was then rector of Christ Church, Vancouver[6] until 1929 when he became Dean of New Westminster. In 1931 he was elected Bishop of Athabasca but only held the post for a year. From then until 1943 he was rector of St Paul's Toronto when he became the Bishop of Moosonee. In 1952 he became the Metropolitan of Ontario, a position he held until retirement in 1954.[7] He died on 6 October 1957.[8] Renison University College in Waterloo, Ontario is named after him.[9]

  1. ^ Province of Ontario
  2. ^ His father was the Rev. Canon Robert Renison >“Who was Who” 1897-1990 London, A & C Black, 1991 ISBN 0-7136-3457-X
  3. ^ "The Clergy List, Clerical Guide and Ecclesiastical Directory" London, John Phillips, 1900
  4. ^ Church web-site
  5. ^ Canadian Great War project
  6. ^ History of church
  7. ^ The Times, 3 June 1954; p. 5; Issue 52948; col G Telegrams in brief
  8. ^ The Times, 9 October 1957; p. 13; Issue 53967; col A Obituary Dr. Robert Renison The Church In Canada
  9. ^ "Canadian Anglican". Archived from the original on July 18, 2011. Retrieved February 12, 2010.