{{Short description|Canadian Anglican bishop}} '''George Frederick Kingston''' (1889 – 20 November 1950) was a Canadian Anglican bishop in the 20th century.<ref>[https://www.anglican.ca/search/faq/018.htm Primates of the Anglican Church of Canada]</ref>
== Education and first bishopric ==
Kingston was born in Prescott, Ontario to Richard and Elizabeth Kingston. He was one of ten children.<ref name=":0" /> Before attending post-secondary education Kingston taught at a one-room school in eastern Ontario. He was educated at Trinity College, Toronto earning his Bachelor of Arts in 1913, followed by his Master of Arts degree. He obtained his Bachelor of Divinity at University of King's College in Halifax, Nova Scotia and was ordained as a Deacon in 1916 in St. Thomas' Church Belleville, Ontario.<ref>Crockford's Clerical Directory1947-48 Oxford, OUP, 1947</ref> In 1917 he was ordained as a priest at All Saints' Church, Halifax.<ref name=":0">{{Cite book|title=Algoma 100: 1873-1973 A documentary commemorating the centennial of the Diocese of Algoma|publisher=Anglican Diocese of Algoma|year=1973|location=Sault Ste Marie, Ontario|pages=81}}</ref>
He was Professor of Philosophy at King's College, Nova Scotia<ref>"Who was Who"1897-1990 London, A & C Black, 1991, {{ISBN|0-7136-3457-X}}</ref> and then Dean of Residence at Trinity College<ref>[http://ontanglican.atspace.com/algoma.htm Anglican Bishops of Canada]</ref> until April 25, 1940 when he was consecrated to the episcopate as the fifth Bishop of Algoma.<ref>{{cite archive |first=Anglican Church of Canada. Diocese of Algoma. |last= |item =Order of Service, Consecration of George Frederick Kingston |item-url =https://archives.algomau.ca/main/node/7693 |type =textual record |item-id =2009-074-001-011 |date =1940 April 25 |page= |pages= |fonds = Archbishop George Frederick Kingston fonds |series = |file =011 |box=001 |collection = Archbishop George Frederick Kingston fonds |collection-url =https://archives.algomau.ca/main/node/19864 |repository =Engracia De Jesus Matias Archives and Special Collections |institution = Algoma University |location = Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario|oclc= |accession=2009-074 }}</ref> A stained glass window in St. Luke's Pro-Cathedral in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario was installed as a memorial to Kingston's work in the Diocese of Algoma.<ref name=":0" />
== Archbishop and Primate ==
Kingston was translated to Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island as bishop in 1944. He subsequently became both Metropolitan (Archbishop of Nova Scotia) and the Primate of the Anglican Church of Canada in 1947.<ref>The Times, 10 September 1947; p3; Issue 50862; col D, "New Anglican Primate in Canada"</ref> He died in post on 20 November 1950.<ref>{{cite archive |first= |last= |item =Order of Service, Burial of George Frederick Kingston |item-url =https://archives.algomau.ca/main/node/7687 |type = textual record |item-id =2009-074-001-009 |date =1950 November 23 |page= |pages= |fonds =Archbishop George Frederick Kingston fonds |series = |file =009 |box=001 |collection =Archbishop George Frederick Kingston fonds |collection-url =https://archives.algomau.ca/main/node/19864 |repository =Engracia De Jesus Matias Archives and Special Collections |institution =Algoma University |location =Sault Ste Marie, Ontario |oclc= |accession=2009-074 }}</ref> Following his death a memorial stained glass window was commissioned for St. Luke's Cathedral (Sault Ste. Marie) in memory of his service to the Algoma Diocese.<ref name=":0" />
== Personal life ==
Kingston married Florence Belle Brown in 1919 and went on to have three children with her. Their one son, Temple Kingston went on to be the Principal of Canterbury College (Windsor, Ontario).<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://archives.algomau.ca/main/node/19864|title=Archbishop George Frederick Kingston fonds|website=Engracia De Jesus Matias Archives and Special Collections|publisher=Algoma University|access-date=October 11, 2016}}</ref>
He was an active Freemason, in Craft Freemasonry, Royal Arch Freemasonry, and the Red Cross of Constantine, and served as Grand Chaplain of the Grand Lodge of Canada (Ontario) and Nova Scotia, from 1948 until his death in 1950.<ref name="Denslow2004">{{cite book|author=William R. Denslow|title=10,000 Famous Freemasons from K to Z|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=D-cCeOEXGyoC&pg=PA27|year=2004|publisher=Kessinger Publishing|isbn=978-1-4179-7579-2|pages=27–}}</ref>
== External links == * [https://archives.algomau.ca/main/node/19864 Archbishop George Frederick Kingston fonds] * [http://www.dioceseofalgoma.com/ Anglican Diocese of Algoma]
== References == {{reflist}}
{{s-start}} {{s-rel|ac}} {{s-bef|before=Rocksborough Remington Smith}} {{s-ttl|title=Bishop of Algoma|years=1940 – 1944}} {{s-aft|after=William Lockridge Wright}} {{s-bef|before=John Hackenley}} {{s-ttl|title=Bishop of Nova Scotia|years=1944 – 1950}} {{s-aft|after=Robert Harold Waterman}} {{s-bef|before=Derwyn Trevor Owen}} {{s-ttl|title=Primate of the Anglican Church of Canada|years=1947 – 1950}} {{s-aft|after=Walter Barfoot}} {{s-end}}
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