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
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]

Arms

Coat of arms of Robert Renison
Notes
Originally recorded by Sir Nevile Rodwell Wilkinson, Ulster King of Arms, 7 December 1935.
Crest
A moose’s head erased Gules attired Or.
Escutcheon
Argent on a bend Vert between two maple leaves Gules a mitre between two Maltese crosses Or.
Motto
Sed Coelum Solum[10]

References

  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.
  10. "Robert John Renison". Canadian Heraldic Authority. Retrieved 25 September 2022.


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