Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography/Roe, Henry

ROE, Henry, Canadian educator, b. in Henryville, Missisquoi co., Quebec, 23 Feb., 1829. He was educated at McGill college and Bishop's college, and was graduated at the latter in 1854. He was ordained a priest in the Anglican church in 1852, became rector of St. Matthew's church, Quebec, in 1850, and of St. Ann's, Richmond, in 1868, and was appointed examining chaplain to the bishop of Quebec in 1864. He became professor of divinity in the University of Bishop's college in 1873, and is now vice-principal and dean of the faculty of divinity in that institution. In 1879 he received the degree of D. D. from Bishop's college. Dr. Roe has been for twenty-five years the Canadian correspondent of the London “Guardian.” Besides sundry sermons, he has published “Pamphlet on Episcopal Veto” (1859); “Treatise on Purgatory, Transubstantiation, and the Mass” (1862); “Pamphlet on Clerical Studies” (1864); “Tract on the Place of Religious Giving in the Christian Economy” (1880); and “Pamphlet on the Place of Laymen in the Spiritual Work of the Church” (1887).