Walter Thorneloe, Katharine Isobel Louise Thorneloe
George Thorneloe (4 October 1848 – 3 August 1935) was a CanadianAnglicanbishop at the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th.[1]
Biography
Thorneloe was born in Coventry, England on October 4, 1848. He emigrated to Canada alongside his parents in 1858. His father was a Wesleyan Methodist minister, who was later ordained in the Anglican Church.[2] In 1875 Thorneloe married Mary Fuller, whom he had two children with.[2]
In 1896 he was elected as the third Bishop of Algoma. He was consecrated as Bishop on January 6, 1897, in the Cathedral of the Holy Trinity, Quebec City by Bishop Bond of Montreal.[6] In 1915 he also became Metropolitan of Ontario and Archbishop of Algoma.[7] Thorneloe held is positions as Bishop and Metropolitan until he resigned in 1927 due to ill health.[8]
Thorneloe died on 3 August 1935.[9] A memorial service was held for him at St. Luke's Anglican Pro-Cathedral in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario. He was buried in Malvern Cemetery, Lennoxville, Quebec.[10] A limestone baptismal font in the bapitistry of St. Luke's Cathedral memorializes the work of Thorneloe.[11]
Awards and honors
Thorneloe's work was recognized in numerous ways including:
^ abcAlgoma 100 1873-1973: A Documentary Commemorating the Centennial of the Diocese of Algoma. Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario: Diocese of Algoma. 1973. p. 47.