Edward Sullivan

Edward Sullivan (18 August 1832 – 6 January 1899) was a Canadian Anglican priest.

Sullivan was the son of a Wesleyan minister and was born in Lurgan, County Armagh, Northern Ireland, in 1832. He attended grammar school at Clonmel in County Tipperary and went on to be educated at Trinity College, Dublin.

He emigrated to Upper Canada in 1858 at which point he was ordered to the diaconate by Diocese of Huron Bishop Benjamin Cronyn. He was ordained as a priest in 1859. He married Mary Hutchison, a family friend from Ireland. Following Hutchison's death he remarried Frances Renaud, who he had five children with. Sullivan was at Holy Trinity during the Great Chicago Fire of 1871, during which the church burned to the ground. Sullivan and his congregation raised funds to rebuild Holy Trinity in mere months. At age 49 he was consecrated as bishop at St. George's Church, Montreal on June 29, 1882. Sullivan was responsible for the expansion of the Diocese Mission Fund and proactively seeking support from the Missionary Society of England which resulted in many churches in the diocese becoming debt free. He also started a Widows' and Orphans' Fund to help financially with the dependents of deceased clergy. In 1896 this fund had reached $18,000. The fund was later renamed as the Bishop Sullivan Memorial Sustentation Fund. By the 1970, the fund has reached a value of $168,000.

Sullivan's health began to decline in 1893 and he began spending winters in France to recover.