George Jehoshefat Mountain (July 27, 1789, Norfolk , England - January 6, 1863, Quebec) - the third Bishop of the Anglican Church in Quebec , the first head of McGill University , the founder of Bishops University .
George Mountain's family moved to Quebec in November 1793. His father, Jacob Mountain, was the first bishop of the Quebec diocese. His uncle Jehoshefat and his cousin were also ministers of the church. From 1805 to 1811, he was educated at Trinity College in Cambridge, but after receiving a bachelor 's degree he was unable to receive scholarships for further studies and returned to Canada . [one]
From 1837 he was the Bishop of Quebec. While at his post, he traveled by canoe to the settlement on the Red River in 1844. This was the first direct contact between the Canadian church and the Northwest Territory church. After the trip, the Archbishop's Journal was published ( Eng. The Journal of the North-West American Mission ).
Indians cross the river on ice
Indian missionaries float down the fast river
In 1829-1835 he was the head of McGill College, and then he worked on the creation of the Bishops College, named after him ( eng. Bishop - bishop) [2] .
Bibliography
Below are some of the works of the bishop [3] :
- The Bishop of Montreal during the United States (1845; ²1849)
- Songs of the Wilderness; being a Collection of Poems (1846)
- By the Lord of the Bishop of Montreal (1847)
- Sermons published on the Synod of the Diocese (1865)
Notes
- ↑ MOUNTAIN, GEORGE JEHOSHAPHAT (English) . Canadian biography online. The date of circulation is January 30, 2010. Archived on April 17, 2012.
- ↑ BISHOP'S UNIVERSITY HISTORICAL TIMELINE 1843 - 1853 (English) (inaccessible link) . Bishops University. The appeal date is January 30, 2010. Archived April 14, 2008.
- ↑ George Jehoshaphat Mountain (English) . Project Canterbury. The date of circulation is January 30, 2010. Archived on April 17, 2012.
Links
- MOUNTAIN, GEORGE JEHOSHAPHAT (English) . Canadian biography online. The date of circulation is January 30, 2010. Archived on April 17, 2012.
- George Jehoshaphat Mountain (eng.) . Project Canterbury. The date of circulation is January 30, 2010. Archived on April 17, 2012.