Reginald Hollis


Reginald Hollis was the 9th Anglican Bishop of Montreal from 1975 to 1990.
Born on 18 July 1932 in Bedworth, UK, he died in Victoria. B.C. on November 9, 2010. He served in the Royal Air Force during the Second World War before he enrolled in theology at Selwyn College, Cambridge and McGill University before studying for ordination and embarking on an academic ecclesiastical career with chaplaincies at the Montreal Diocese Theological College and McGill. Pastoral posts in Quebec led to an administrative role as Director of Parish and Diocesan Services back in Montreal and in the mid-1970s elevation to that See's Bishopric. In 1989, he was appointed as Metropolitan of the Province of Canada.
On his retirement to Florida in 1990, he became the Episcopal Director of the Anglican Fellowship of Prayer and an honorary assistant bishop within the Episcopal Diocese of Central Florida.