Anglican Diocese of Toronto - Bishops

Bishops

Its first bishop was John Strachan who became the bishop of Toronto in 1839, after becoming ordained in the Anglican Church in 1803 and later becoming the archdeacon of York in 1827.

The current Archbishop of Toronto (and Metropolitan of the Ecclesiastical Province of Ontario) is the Most Reverend Colin Johnson, who is assisted by four suffragan bishops, styled "area bishops", each with oversight of a geographical region of the diocese. The Episcopal Areas and their respective suffragan/area bishops are:

• Bishop of York-Simcoe – George Elliott (2001–present)
• Bishop of York-Credit Valley – Philip Poole (2005–present)
• Bishop of York-Scarborough – Patrick Yu (2006–present)
• Bishop of Trent-Durham – Linda Nicholls (2008–present)

Each Episcopal Area has its own bishop and some have an archdeacon, although all function with delegated authority of the diocesan bishop who retains jurisdiction for the whole diocese.

The Reverend Canon Linda Nicholls was elected Suffragan Bishop of Toronto on the third ballot at an electoral Synod on November 17, 2007, at St. Paul's Bloor Street. She was consecrated on February 2, 2008, at the Cathedral Church of St. James (Toronto), becoming the third female Anglican bishop in the Diocese of Toronto and the fourth in the Anglican Church in Canada.

The first two women consecrated as bishops in the Anglican Church of Canada also served as suffragan bishops of Toronto: first, the Right Reverend Victoria Matthews, elected in 1994, translated to the Diocese of Edmonton as diocesan bishop in 1997 (and now Bishop of Christchurch, New Zealand; and second, the Right Reverend the Lady Ann Tottenham, elected in 1997, retired in 2005, and now serving part-time as an assistant bishop in the Diocese of Niagara.