Diocese of Huron

Diocese of Huron
Location
Ecclesiastical province	Ontario
Information
Rite	Anglican
Cathedral	St. Paul's Cathedral, London
Current leadership
Bishop	Robert Bennett
Suffragans	Terrance Dance
Website
diohuron.org

The Diocese of Huron is a diocese of the Ecclesiastical Province of Ontario of the Anglican Church of Canada. The diocese comprises just over 31,000 square kilometres of the extreme south-western portion of the civil province of Ontario, sandwiched between Lake Huron and Lake Erie. Its See city is London, and its parish rolls of 50,000 are served by 181 congregations.

The territory covered by the diocese was under the jurisdiction of the Diocese of Quebec until 1839, and was included in the Diocese of Toronto from 1839 until 1857. Its first bishop, Benjamin Cronyn, was the first to be elected by a diocesan synod in Canada.

Apart from London, other major communities included within the diocese are Brantford, Cambridge, Chatham, Kitchener, Sarnia, Stratford, Waterloo, and Windsor. Apart from its many parishes, the diocese maintains chaplaincies at Canterbury College in Windsor, Renison University College in Waterloo and Huron University College in London, which has an affiliated seminary. A parish in Brantford, Ontario also supports chaplaincy ministry at the local campus of Wilfrid Laurier University.

As of 2 July 2009 the Diocesan Bishop is Robert Bennett, who was the former suffragan bishop for the diocese. He is supported by Terry Dance, who was elected as the new suffragan bishop on 28 March 2009 and consecrated in St. Paul's Cathedral, London, Ontario, on 6 June 2009. The interim dean of St. Paul's Cathedral is the Rt Revd Barry Clarke, formerly of the Diocese of Montreal. Bishop Clarke was appointed upon the departure of the Very Revd Kevin Dixon, who has accepted a new position with a non-governmental organization.

Bishops of Huron

Bishop of Huron	Name	Dates	Notes
1st	Benjamin Cronyn	1857–1871
2nd	Isaac Hellmuth	1871–1883
3rd	Maurice Baldwin	1883-1904
4th	David Williams	1905-1931	Metropolitan of Ontario, 1926–1931
5th	Charles Seager	1932-1948	Metropolitan of Ontario, 1944–1948
6th	George Luxton	1948-1970
7th	Carmen Queen	1970-1974
8th	David Ragg	1974–1984
9th	Derwyn Jones	1984-1990
10th	Percy O'Driscoll	1990–2000	Metropolitan of Ontario, 1993–2000
11th	Bruce Howe	2000–2008
12th	Bob Bennett	2008–present

External links

• Diocesan website.
• Diocesan archives.
• List of parish website links.
• Deaneries of the Diocese of Huron.
• Diocesan 150th anniversary website.
• Huron University College website.
• Renison University College website.