For the first time since the Canadian chapter of the Society of St. John the Evangelist (SSJE) was folded into its American counterpart in 1984, a Canadian will serve as the monastic order’s brother superior, following the election of Br. James Koester at the beginning of March.
“Let your ‘yes’ be yes,” said Archbishop Fred Hiltz, primate of the Anglican Church of Canada, quoting James 5:12 as silence descended over the congregation gathered at the Mohawk Chapel.
When General Synod meets in Richmond Hill, Ont., from July 7-12, making sure the church and Canadian society at large know exactly what is going on will be the cornerstone of the communications plan, said Meghan Kilty, director of communications for the Anglican Church of Canada.
Changes introduced after General Synod 2013 to streamline the structure and operations of the national church have met with mixed results, Archdeacon Michael Thompson said in his report to a March 12 meeting of Council of General Synod (CoGS).
While conversations about what an alternative structure for a self-determining Indigenous Anglican church might look like have been going on for some time-and were a major topic of conversation at the Sacred Circle, held in Port Elgin, Ont., in 2015-National Indigenous Bishop Mark MacDonald said that structure is not currently the most pressing priority.
When it meets July 7-12, General Synod will be asked to consider a resolution asking that a task force be created to “review the investment policies and practices” of General Synod assets and those of the General Synod Pension Plan, “in light of the church’s faith and mission, including [its] social and environmental responsibilities.”
When General Synod meets in July to vote on same-sex marriage, ample discussion time must be provided before the vote is taken, the working group on the marriage canon recommended in a March 13 report to Council of General Synod (CoGS).
Mississauga, Ont.
In his reflections during the last session of Council of General Synod (CoGS) for the last priennium, the primate of the Anglican Church of Canada expressed frustration that Anglicans have not exhibited the same degree of passion for human rights issues as it has for debates about same-sex marriage.
Mississauga Ont.
Council of General Synod (CoGS) unanimously agreed March 12 to send to General Synod 2016 a resolution formulated by the Commission on the Marriage Canon which would change the Anglican Church of Canada’s law to pave the way for same-sex marriage.
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The Anglican Church of Canada may be facing demographic challenges, but response to fundraising remains strong, said Monica Patten, interim director of Resources for Mission (RfM) in a March 11 presentation to Council of General Synod (CoGS).
Registration is now open for delegates to General Synod 2016, which is scheduled to meet July 7-12 in Richmond Hill, Ont.
As Council of General Synod (CoGS) members gathered March 10 for their last meeting of the triennium, the question of how they will prepare the 2016 General Synod for its upcoming vote on same-sex marriage hung heavily over the proceedings.
A year after the Episcopal Church of Cuba voted unanimously to return to The Episcopal Church (TEC) following the normalization of relations between Cuba and the United States, it is still unclear how this will affect the relationship between the Cuban and Canadian Anglican churches, said Archbishop Fred Hiltz, primate of the Anglican Church of Canada.
In the first election of its kind, Col. the Ven. Nigel Shaw, director of chaplaincy operations for the Canadian Armed Forces, Navy and Air Force, was chosen as the new bishop-elect of the Anglican Military Ordinariate March 5 via an electronic electoral synod.
On Saturday, March 6, Bishop Logan McMenamie of the diocese of British Columbia will take the first steps on a 465-kilometer walk to symbolically “re-enter the land” on behalf of the Anglican church on Vancouver Island.
A resolution asking General Synod to allow same-sex marriage will still go forward despite a statement from the House of Bishops suggesting it is unlikely that such a motion will pass, says Canon (lay) David Jones, chancellor of General Synod.
It was out of consideration for the rest of the church and not an attempt to influence or pre-empt the process at General Synod that the House of Bishops made public the unlikelihood of their order voting to allow same-sex marriage at General Synod this summer, say some bishops.
When Anglicans across Canada celebrate the third annual Jerusalem Sunday May 8, they will be able to share their experiences on social media via an official Jerusalem Sunday Facebook page and a new Twitter hashtag, #JerusalemSunday, which are in the works, says Andrea Mann, director of global relations for the Anglican Church of Canada.
On October 19, 2014, Fathi Ismail, 16, approached the squat grey building surrounded by windswept prairie where the Interstate 29 from Grand Forks, N.D., turns into the Lord Selkirk Highway to Winnipeg.
Bishop Tim Thornton of the diocese of Truro in the Church of England is the co-chair for the Anglican-Roman Catholic Committee in England, and serves on the International Anglican-Roman Catholic Council for Unity and Mission.