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Rt. Rev. Bethune inherited a diocese quite fragmented from methods and policies attributed to Strachan and/or the Family Compact. These circumstances made his episcopate appear less successful. He was a humble man and some saw this as a weakness causing his message to be lost his generation.
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Alexander Neil Bethune was ordained in 1824 and took charge of the parish at
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Church of England clergyman and bishop and the son of John Bethune
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from 1835 to 1846. Other notable brothers included businessman
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Bethune died in Toronto in 1879, shortly before the
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Alexander Neil Bethune
Church of England
John Bethune
Church of Scotland
Upper Canada
James Crooks
Robert Henry Bethune
Dominion Bank
John
McGill University
James Gray
Angus
Donald
Family Compact
Grimsby, Ontario
Diocese of Toronto
John Strachan
North-West Rebellion
Arthur Sweatman
Trinity Church
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Alexander Neil Bethune Collection
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Works by or about Alexander Bethune
Internet Archive
Biography at the Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online
Bibliographic directory
Project Canterbury
Alexander Neil Bethune

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