Archbishop Colin Johnson

Join our Wednesday afternoon community as we share the Word and Eucharist followed by a meal together wiht Archbishop Colin Johnson. Archbishop Johnson is the Diocesan Bishop of Toronto and Metropolitan of the Ecclesiastical Province of Ontario. 

On October 15, 2009, Archbishop Johnson was elected and installed at the 33rd Synod of the Ecclesiastical Province of Ontario as the 18th Metropolitan of Ontario, overseeing dioceses of Algoma, Huron, Moosonee, Niagara, Ontario, Ottawa, and Toronto (the latter of which he is the chief pastor with oversight of 211 parishes). 

Elected suffragan bishop on April 23, 2003 and consecrated on June 21, 2003, he served as the area bishop of Trent-Durham, the eastern 2/3 of the Diocese of Toronto. He was elected Diocesan Bishop on June 12, 2004, and installed as the 11th Bishop of Toronto on Sept. 12, 2004.   The Diocese of Toronto is led by the Bishop of Toronto with the assistance of four suffragan (area) bishops.

Born in 1952 in Mount Forest, Ontario, he was educated at the University of Western Ontario, London and received his Master of Divinity degree from Trinity College, Toronto in 1977. He was ordained to the priesthood in 1978 and served a number of parishes in the Diocese of Toronto before becoming Executive Assistant to the Diocesan Bishop in 1992 and Archdeacon of York in 1994. 

He serves on the Council of General Synod (the executive body of General Synod), chairs the Commission on Theological Education for the Anglican Communion (TEAC), serves as Visitor to the Sisterhood of St. John the Divine, and participates in the Anglican Communion’s Continuing Indaba and Intentional Listening Project.  He is on the faculty for The College for Bishops (training newly elected bishops), and serves on a number of foundations and boards.

He is a noted advocate for social justice, travels widely to build relationships in the Anglican Communion, and has particular interest in liturgical theology, organizational process, and new church development.

He is married to Ellen, a retired elementary school teacher, and has three grown children, and one adored granddaughter.