John Charles Roper (1858 – 26 January 1940[1]) was an Anglican bishop in the Anglo-Catholic tradition[2] in the first half of the 20th century.[3]
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Biography
Roper was educated at Keble College, Oxford.[4]
Ordained in 1882,[5] he began his ministry with a curacy at Herstmonceux and was then as chaplain of Brasenose College, Oxford.[6]
In 1886, he was appointed Professor of Divinity at Trinity College, Toronto and also served as parish priest of St Thomas's Toronto.[7] He was then Professor of Theology at the General Theological Seminary, New York City[8] In 1912 he became the third Bishop of British Columbia[9] and was translated to be the Bishop of Ottawa three years later,[10] serving for 24 years[11] - the last six as the Metropolitan of Ontario.[12]