Colin Johnson

Who is Colin Johnson?

Colin Robert Johnson SCP is the current Anglican Archbishop of Toronto and the Metropolitan of the Ecclesiastical Province of Ontario. He is an alumnus of Trinity College in the University of Toronto and the 11th bishop of the diocese, the largest in the Anglican Church of Canada.

Johnson was elected suffragan bishop by the diocesan synod on April 23, 2003, at the Cathedral Church of St. James and was consecrated on June 21, 2003, to serve as the area bishop of Trent-Durham, the eastern region of the diocese. He was elected diocesan bishop on June 12, 2004, and installed as the 11th Bishop of Toronto on September 12, 2004. He succeeded Archbishop Terence Finlay, who retired on June 4, 2004, after serving as diocesan bishop for over 15 years. Bishop John Strachan was the first Bishop of Toronto when the diocese was created in 1839.

On October 15, 2009, Johnson was elected the 18th Metropolitan of the Ecclesiastical Province of Ontario. The Ecclesiastical Province of Ontario includes the dioceses of Moosonee, Algoma, Ontario, Ottawa, Toronto, Niagara and Huron. It extends from the Great Lakes in the south to the shores of James Bay in the north and from Martin Falls in western Ontario to Val D’Or in northern Quebec and Cornwall, Ontario in the east. Collectively, Anglicans in the province represent more than half of the Anglican population in all of Canada.