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John Horden
20 January, 1828-12 January, 1893

First Bishop of Moosonee, consecrated December 10, 1872.


John Horden: Missionary Bishop
A Life on the Shores of Hudson's Bay
By the Rev. A. R. Buckland, M.A.
London: The Sunday School Union, no date.

John Horden
from Leaders of the Canadian Church, edited by Bertal Heeney (1920)

Forty-Two Years Amongst the Indians and Eskimo: Pictures from the Life of the Right Reverend John Horden, First Bishop of Moosonee.
By Beatrice Batty.
London: Religious Tract Society, 1893.


The Morning and Evening Services according to the Use of the United Church of England and Ireland, Translated into the Language of the Saulteux Indians of the Diocese of Rupert's Land, North America.
London: Watts, 1861.

Collection of Psalms and Hymns, in the Language of the Cree Indians of North West America.
Compiled by the Right Rev. John Horden.
London: Church Missionary Society, 1874. [External link]

The Psalter, or, Psalms of David in the Language of the Cree Indians of North-west America.
London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1879. [External link]

The New Testament, translated into the Cree Language.
By Right Rev. John Horden.
London: British and Foreign Bible Society, 1876. [External link]

Moosonee Hymnal Translated into the Ojibbeway Language by the Right Rev. the Bishop of Moosonee and the Rev. John Sanders.
London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1879.

The Book of Common Prayer and Administration of the Sacraments, and other Rites and Ceremonies of the Church according to the Use of the Church of England.
Translated into the Language of the Ojibbeway Indians in the Diocese of the Moosonee, by the Right Rev. the Bishop of Moosonee and the Rev. J. Sanders, of Matawakumma.
London: Society for Promoting Christian knowledge, 1880. [External link]

Saint Matthew's Gospel Translated into the Language of the Ojibbeway Indians in the Diocese of Moosonee.
London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1880. [External link]

A Grammar of the Cree language, As Spoken by the Cree Indians of North America.
London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1881. [External link]

The Church Catechism in the Language of the Cree Indians of North-west America.
London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1892. [External link]

The Acts of the Apostles Translated into the Language of the Ojibbeway Indians in the Diocese of Moosonee.
London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1892. [External link]


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