Arthur Lea (bishop)

The Right Reverend Arthur Lea (1868 – January 19, 1958) was a Canadian Anglican bishop who served as Bishop of Kyushu.

A graduate of Wycliffe College, Toronto, his mission work for the Nippon Sei Ko Kai started in Gifu Prefecture in 1897 where he established a pioneering school for the blind. He was consecrated Bishop of Kyushu, an Anglican diocese supported by the Church Missionary Society in 1909.^[1]

His daughter, Leonora Lea, was an SPG sponsored educational missionary in Kobe.

References

↑ Ion, Hamish (2008). Donaghy, Greg, ed. Contradictory Impulses: Canada and Japan in the Twentieth Century. Vancouver: UBC Press. p. 14. ISBN 978-0-7748-1443-0. |accessdate= requires |url= (help)

External links

Glimpses of Missionary Work in the Diocese of South Japan (Kyushu), by Arthur Lea

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