- Charles James Stewart
Charles James Stewart (13 or
16 April 1775 –13 July 1837 ) was an EnglishChurch of England , clergyman,bishop , and politician. He was the second Bishop of Quebec from 1826 to 1837.Born in
London ,England , the third surviving son of John Stewart, 7thEarl of Galloway , and his second wife, Anne Dashwood, Stewart received a Bachelor of Arts degree fromCorpus Christi College, Oxford in 1795 and a M.A. in 1799 fromAll Souls College, Oxford . He was ordained to thediaconate in December 1798 and to the priesthood in May 1799. From 1799 to 1826, he was collated to the rectory ofOrton Longueville inCambridgeshire . In 1807, he arrived inLower Canada as a missionary settling inMontreal . He soon moved to Saint-Armand and helped to build Trinity Church, Frelighsburg, the first regular place of Anglican worship in theEastern Townships . In 1826, he was appointed Bishop of Quebec. He died in London in 1837.References
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