St. Catharines, Ont. Dean Peter Elliott of the diocese of New Westminster, currently the deputy prolocutor of the General Synod, was elected prolocutor of General
As in the past, there will be no fixed term for the elected head of the Anglican Church of Canada when he or she is
Will be on medical disability leave for a year Bishop Victoria Matthews of Edmonton has withdrawn from the primatial election after she was diagnosed with
A United Nations conference in New York on the status of women saw significant Anglican participation, according to Elizabeth Loweth, a former executive director of
Bishop Penelope Jamieson of the diocese of Dunedin in New Zealand, the first female diocesan bishop in the Anglican Communion, has announced that she will
If you were to create an 11th commandment, what would it be? The Methodist church in the United Kingdom, along with a popular satirical British
Dissension over the issue of homosexuality continued last month to mark life in some areas of the Episcopal Church of the United States (ECUSA). On
Archbishop Michael Peers, the former primate of the Anglican Church of Canada, will receive an honorary doctor of divinity degree and deliver the commencement address
Bishop Francisco Duque of the Episcopal Church of Colombia said he would like to see more churches in Canada providing Spanish religious services for a
The primate of Nigeria, Archbishop Peter J. Akinola, and the primate of South Africa, Archbishop Njongon-kulu Ndungane have agreed to work closely in crafting the
When members of the 37th General Synod vote for a new primate on May 31, they will already have thought long and hard about who
The Council of General Synod (CoGS) will send to General Synod a proposal that the primate’s term of office be limited to nine years with
The Anglican Church in Central America (Iglesia Anglicana de la Region Central America, or IARCA) is the latest province to divide over the consecration of
Betty Campbell Graham, the first woman elected prolocutor of General Synod, died Feb. 10 in Toronto at the age of 84. Born in Toronto, Ms.
Of the $3 million raised by the Anglican Journal Appeal since 1994, more than $1 million has been returned to participating dioceses to help publish
ANDREW S. HUTCHISON, 65 Metropolitan of the Province of Canada and Archbishop of Montreal An outspoken advocate for minorities, refugees, and human rights in church
TERENCE E. FINLAY, 66 (will retire in June) Metropolitan of Ontario and Archbishop of Toronto He heads Canada’s largest diocese by population. He has joined
The national church office will move to its new quarters at 80 Hayden St., Toronto, on the weekend of April 24-25, Archdeacon Jim Boyles, general
The government of Canada will appeal the so-called Blackwater court ruling which found that the federal government was 100 per cent liable for abuse suffered
Sister Constance Murphy, a member of the Sisters of St. John the Divine who was recently made a canon of Toronto ‘s St. James Cathedral,