Colin Johnson (bishop)

The Most Reverend Colin Johnson SCP
Metropolitan of Ontario
Province	Province of Ontario
In office	2009 to present
Predecessor	Caleb Lawrence
Other posts	Bishop of Toronto (2004–present) Bishop of Moosonee (2014–present) Episcopal Visitor of the Sisterhood of St. John the Divine (2005–present)
Orders
Ordination	1977 (deacon) 1978 (priest)
Consecration	21 June 2003
Personal details
Birth name	Colin Robert Johnson
Born	1952 (age 64–65)
Nationality	Canadian
Denomination	Anglicanism
Spouse	Ellen
Children	Three
Alma mater	University of Western Ontario Trinity College, Toronto

Colin Robert Johnson SCP is the current Anglican archbishop of Toronto and of Moosonee and the Metropolitan of the Ecclesiastical Province of Ontario. He is an alumnus of Trinity College in the University of Toronto and the 11th bishop of the diocese, the largest in the Anglican Church of Canada.

Born in 1952, Johnson was educated at the University of Western Ontario and received his Master of Divinity degree from Trinity College in 1977.

He was awarded the degree of Doctor of Divinity (honoris causa) by Wycliffe College and Trinity College both in 2005 and by Huron College in 2015.

He was made a deacon in 1977, ordained to the priesthood in 1978 and served a number of parishes in the Diocese of Toronto before becoming executive assistant to the diocesan bishop in 1992 and archdeacon of York in 1994.

Johnson was elected suffragan bishop by the diocesan synod on April 23, 2003, at the Cathedral Church of St. James (Toronto) and was consecrated on June 21, 2003, to serve as the area bishop of Trent-Durham, the eastern region of the diocese. He was elected diocesan bishop on June 12, 2004, and installed as the 11th bishop of Toronto on September 12, 2004. He succeeded Terence Finlay, who retired on June 4, 2004, after serving as diocesan bishop for over 15 years. John Strachan was the first bishop of Toronto when the diocese was created in 1839.

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