Archibald Fleming
Archibald Lang Fleming FRGS was the inaugural Bishop of The Arctic from 1933 to 1949.Biography
Fleming was educated at Greenock Academy and the University of Glasgow. He was in the drawing office at John Brown & Co, a shipyard in Clydebank, until 1906 when he went to Canada to prepare for missionary work at Wycliffe College. Ordained in 1912 he was a missionary in Baffin Island until 1916. Later he was Chaplain of his old theological college then Rector of Saint John, New Brunswick. He was Archdeacon of The Arctic from 1927 to his appointment to the episcopate. He was also a noted author.
