Peter Trimble Rowe

Peter Trimble Rowe (November 20, 1856 – June 1, 1942) was a Canadian minister who served as the first bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Alaska. He was born in Meadowville, Ontario, Canada, receiving his Bachelors degree in 1878, his Masters degree in 1880, and his doctorate of divinity in 1895, from Trinity College, Toronto.

He was ordained to the diaconate in 1878 and the priesthood in 1880, by Frederick Dawson Fauquier, bishop of the Diocese of Algoma.

He was appointed Missionary Bishop of Alaska in 1895, and consecrated on November 30, 1895. His principal consecrators were William Croswell Doane, Ozi William Whittaker, and Thomas A. Starkey. Rowe died in Victoria, British Columbia in 1942.

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