Archbishop Fred Hiltz, primate of the Anglican Church of Canada, is scheduled to have his annual meeting with Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby on December 9 and said he’s hoping to get an update about the upcoming Primates’ Meeting.
“I want to write about how to write theology,” the celebrated American theologian Stanley Hauerwas said to a standing-room-only crowd at Wycliffe College in Toronto on November 30.
Members of a Canadian and Brazilian delegation that visited Belém, Brazil, were robbed at gunpoint November 23.
Upon returning from an end-of-November trip to the Episcopal Anglican Church of Brazil, Archbishop Fred Hiltz, primate of the Anglican Church of Canada, said that he hopes the two churches are on their way to a “formal, global partner relationship” within the Anglican Communion.
A retired Anglican priest was charged on November 20 with sexually assaulting three boys during his time as rector of St. Andrew’s Anglican Church at Chippewa-On-The-Thames First Nation nearly 40 years ago.
A church commission’s report providing the biblical and theological argument for the adoption of same-sex marriage does little to bridge the ideological gap between conservatives and liberals in the Anglican Church of Canada, according to theologians interviewed by the Anglican Journal.
It doesn’t have a regular working congregation, it doesn’t have a priest and it doesn’t even belong to a specific denomination.
The Anglican Parishes of the Central Interior (APCI) has been officially recognized as a territory with the status of a diocese within the Anglican Church of Canada, but its bishop, Barbara Andrews, said this was more about legally acknowledging APCI’s position than it was about changing how it operates day to day.
Last summer, Canon Robert Kereopa was invited to give a keynote at the 8th National Anglican Sacred Circle in Port Elgin, Ont., where he spoke
A patient lies in a hospital bed, suffering from a degenerative and incurable disease. Tired of the pain and tired of life, he has just asked his doctor to help him die.
Anglicans and Lutherans have developed very close ties since entering into full communion in 2001, but keeping those ties strong requires members of both churches to engage both prayerfully and candidly with each other, their leaders say.
Council of General Synod (CoGS) has stressed that delegates to the 2016 General Synod need space, time, and appropriate preparation in order to keep discussions around same-sex marriage from becoming antagonistic.
How best to continue the process of reconciliation, now that Canada’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) has issued its final report and released its calls to action?
The Council of General Synod (CoGS) voted today to recognize the Anglican Parishes of the Central Interior (APCI) as a territory in the ecclesiastical province of British Columbia and Yukon with “the status of a diocese.”
The directors of The Primate’s World Relief and Development Fund (PWRDF) and of Canadian Lutheran World Relief (CLWR) have offered hopeful words about the work their relief and development organizations are doing to help refugees, and a dire prognosis for the refugee crisis as a whole.
The Council of the North needs to work harder at building trust with Indigenous Anglicans, Saskatchewan Bishop Michael Hawkins told Council of General Synod (CoGS) on Friday.
A majority of delegates from synods of the diocese of Montreal and the diocese of Ottawa recently voted to divest from fossil fuels, joining 430 other institutions and 2,040 individuals representing $2.6 trillion in assets who have chosen to pull fossil fuel stocks from their investment portfolios.
On the same day that Justin Trudeau was sworn in as Canada’s 23rd prime minister November 4, he received a letter from Archbishop Fred Hiltz, primate of the Anglican Church of Canada, and National Bishop Susan Johnson of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada (ELCIC) congratulating him for his victory and welcoming his “approach to governance.”
On Saturday, October 31, the synod of the diocese of Brandon elected Canon William Cliff, rector of the Collegiate Chapel of St. John the Evangelist at Huron University College in the diocese of Huron, as its seventh diocesan bishop.
At their autumn meeting in Niagara Falls, Ont., members of the House of Bishops agreed to convene a special meeting from February 23-26 to discuss the report of the Commission on the Marriage Canon.
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