His Grace The Most Reverend Adam Urias de Pencier ,[1]OBE,[2] DD was the third Bishop of New Westminster and second Archbishop in the Metropolitan of British Columbia.[3] Born in 1866, he was the great-great grandson of Charles I, Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel through his ancestor Christian Theodore von Pincier.[4] The von Pincier family received its title in 1698 from King Carl XII and came to Canada in the 18th century.
Educated at Trinity College in Toronto and ordained in 1890, de Pencier held incumbencies at St Matthew’s, Brandon and St Paul’s, Vancouver.[5] He was appointed Bishop, and later Archbishop of the Diocese of New Westminster in 1910 for British Columbia.[6] Prior to retiring in 1940, he was awarded an Honourary Doctor of Laws by the University of British Columbia and the Order of the British Empire by King George V.[7]
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| Preceded by John Dart |
Bishop of New Westminster 1910– 1940 |
Succeeded by Sir Francis Heathcote, 9th Baronet |
| Preceded by Frederick Herbert Du Vernet |
Metropolitan of British Columbia 1925 – 1940 |
Succeeded by Walter Robert Adams |
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