Bruce Stavert

{{Short description|Canadian Anglican metropolitan (1940–2023)}} {{Infobox Christian leader | type = Metropolitan | honorific_prefix = The Most Reverend | name = Bruce Stavert | honorific_suffix = | title = Metropolitan of Canada | church = Anglican Church of Canada | archdiocese = | province = | metropolis = | diocese = Province of Canada | see = | elected = | term = 2004–2009 | quashed =  | predecessor = Andrew Hutchison | successor = Claude Miller | opposed = | other_post = Bishop of Quebec (1990–2009) | ordination = 1964 | birth_name = | birth_date = {{Birth date|1940|04|01|df=y}} | birth_place = Montreal, Quebec, Canada | death_date = {{Death date and age|2023|09|11|1940|04|01|df=y}} | alma_mater = Trinity College (STB, MTh) }}

'''Alexander Bruce Stavert''' (1 April 1940 – 11 September 2023) was a Canadian Anglican prelate. He served as bishop of Quebec (1990–2009) and as metropolitan of Canada (2004–2009).<ref>{{cite news|title=New Archbishop for Quebec|url=http://www.sherbrookerecord.com/content/view/225018/1/|access-date=28 December 2010|newspaper=Sherbrooke Record|date=June 2, 2009|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110716054910/http://www.sherbrookerecord.com/content/view/225018/1/|archive-date=16 July 2011}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=The Lords Bishop of the Diocese of Quebec|url=http://quebec.anglican.org/Front%20page/the%20diocese/Bishops/the%20bishops%20of%20the%20diocese.dwt|publisher=Anglican Church of Canada|access-date=28 December 2010|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110728084128/http://quebec.anglican.org/Front%20page/the%20diocese/Bishops/the%20bishops%20of%20the%20diocese.dwt|archive-date=28 July 2011}}</ref>

Born on 1 April 1940 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada,<ref name="Who's Who">{{Who's Who|id=U31680|title=Stavert, Most Rev. Alexander Bruce}}</ref><ref name="obit">{{Cite web |title=Bruce Stavert |url=https://www.legacy.com/ca/obituaries/theglobeandmail/name/bruce-stavert-obituary?id=53227611 |work=The Globe & Mail |via=Legacy.com |access-date=30 September 2023}}</ref> Stavert was educated at Trinity College in Toronto. He was ordained in 1964<ref>''Crockford's Clerical Directory 1975-76'' London: Oxford University Press, 1976 {{ISBN|0-19-200008-X}}</ref> and began his career at Schefferville, Quebec. He was a fellow and chaplain at his old college until 1976 and then the incumbent at St Clement's Mission East, St Paul's River in Quebec. He was chaplain at Bishop's University from 1981 to 1984; and then Dean of Saskatchewan until his elevation to the episcopate.

He was created a Companion of the Roll of Honour of the Memorial of Merit of King Charles the Martyr in 2011.<ref>{{cite web |title=ROLL OF HONOUR OF THE MEMORIAL OF MERIT OF KING CHARLES THE MARTYR |url=https://memorialofmerit.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/master-roll-of-honour-mmcm-updated-august-2021-1.pdf |website=memorialofmerit.com |publisher=Memorial of Merit |access-date=25 February 2026}}</ref>

Stavert died on 11 September 2023, at the age of 83.<ref name="obit"></ref>

==References== {{Reflist}}

{{s-start}} {{s-rel|ac}} {{s-bef|before=Allen Goodings}} {{s-ttl|title=Bishop of Quebec|years=1990–2009}} {{s-aft|after=Dennis Drainville}} {{s-bef|before=Andrew Sandford Hutchison}} {{s-ttl|title=Metropolitan of Canada|years=2004–2009}} {{s-aft|after=Claude Weston Miller}} {{end}}

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