James Watton

This article is about the Canadian bishop. For the English footballer, see Jim Watton.

James Augustus Watton was a Canadian Anglican bishop in the second half of the 20th century.^[1]

Watton was born on 23 October 1915,^[2] educated at the University of Western Ontario and ordained in 1939.^[3] He held curacies at Lucknow, Ontario and Merlin after which he was the incumbent of Plympton–Wyoming. After time at Geraldton, Kirkland Lake^[4] and Timmins he became Dean of Moosonee in 1955. In 1957 he became Rector of St John's Port Hope and in 1958 of St Michael and All Angels, Toronto. In 1963 he became the Bishop of Moosonee, a position he held until 1979, for the last five years of which he was also Metropolitan of Ontario. He died on 14 August 1995.

References

↑ Province of Ontario
↑ “Who was Who” 1897-2007 London, A & C Black, 2007 ISBN 978-0-19-954087-7
↑ Crockford's Clerical Directory1940-41 Oxford, OUP,1941
↑ Diocese of Algoma

Religious titles
Preceded by Cuthbert Cooper Robinson	Bishop of Moosonee 1963–1979	Succeeded by Caleb James Lawrence
Preceded by John Charles Roper	Metropolitan of Ontario 1974–1979	Succeeded by Lewis Samuel Garnsworthy

Anglican Bishops of Moosonee

John Horden Jervois Newnham George Holmes John Anderson Robert Renison Cooper Robinson James Watton Caleb Lawrence Tom Corston

Metropolitans of Ontario

Charles Hamilton George Thorneloe David Williams James Sweeny Charles Roper John Anderson Charles Seager John Lyons Robert Renison William Wright James Watton Lewis Garnsworthy John Bothwell Edwin Lackey Percy O'Driscoll Terence Finlay Caleb Lawrence Colin Johnson

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