Archbishop Colin Johnson

Archbishop's Office Staff

Archbishop of Toronto

Archbishop Colin Robert Johnson is our diocesan archbishop. He is the chief pastor of the Diocese with pastoral oversight of 211 parishes.

Archbishop Johnson was elected suffragan bishop on April 23, 2003 and was consecrated on June 21, 2003. He served as the area bishop of Trent-Durham until February 2006. He was elected Diocesan Bishop on June 12, 2004, and installed as the 11^th Bishop of Toronto on Sept. 12, 2004. He succeeds Archbishop Terence Finlay, who retired on June 4, 2003. On Oct. 15, 2009, he was elected Metropolitan (senior bishop) of the Ecclesiastical Province of Ontario.

Born in 1952, he was educated at the University of Western Ontario and received his Master of Divinity degree from Trinity College 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.

The Ven. Peter Fenty

The Ven. Peter Fenty is Executive Assistant to the Archbishop of Toronto.

Diocesan Archbishop's Office:

135 Adelaide Street East, Toronto M5C 1L8
416-363-6021/1-800-668-8932 ext. 250