Edward Sullivan (18 August 1832 – 6 January 1899) was a

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. Sullivan was the son of a

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minister and was born in

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in 1832. He attended grammar school at

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and went on to be educated at

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. He emigrated to Upper Canada in 1858 at which point he was ordered to the diaconate by

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Bishop

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. He was ordained as a priest in 1859. He married Mary Hutchison, a family friend from Ireland. Following Hutchison's death he remarried Frances Renaud, who he had five children with.

Incumbencies

His first appointment was a curate near,

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in 1859. In 1863 he was appointed to St. George's Church in

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. In 1868 he left Montreal to become the rector of Holy Trinity,

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from 1868 to 1879. Sullivan was at Holy Trinity during the

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of 1871, during which the church burned to the ground. Sullivan and his congregation raised funds to rebuild Holy Trinity in mere months. In 1879 Sullivan returned to Canada and of St George, Montreal as rector.

Bishop of Algoma

Following the death of Fredrick Dawson Fauquier, the

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's first bishop in 1882, Sullivan was elected in May 1882 to the

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as the second bishop of Algoma. At age 49 he was consecrated as bishop at St. George's Church, Montreal on June 29, 1882. When Sullivan took charge of the Algoma Diocese the diocese was still very much a missionary diocese that spanned a huge physical area and was under considerable financial strain. Sullivan was responsible for the expansion of the Diocese Mission Fund and proactively seeking support from the

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which resulted in many churches in the diocese becoming debt free. He also started a Widows' and Orphans' Fund to help financially with the dependents of deceased clergy. In 1896 this fund had reached $18,000. The fund was later renamed as the Bishop Sullivan Memorial Sustentation Fund. By the 1970, the fund has reached a value of $168,000. Sullivan was also responsible for the division of the Algoma Diocese into rural

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. He initially appointed priests with regional oversight to four deaneries: Muskoka,

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, Algoma, and

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. In 1895 Nipissing and Manitoulin were added as deaneries. Sullivan's health began to decline in 1893 and he began spending winters in

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to recover. He resigned as bishop in 1896 and became the rector of St James Cathedral,

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, until his death in June 1899.Sullivan, Edward
in the Dictionary of Canadian Biography online

References

External links

Bishop Edward Sullivan fonds
{{DEFAULTSORT:Sullivan, Edward 1832 births Alumni of Trinity College Dublin Anglican bishops of Algoma 19th-century Anglican Church of Canada bishops 1899 deaths People from Lurgan Christian clergy from County Armagh