Bishop Mary Irwin-Gibson has corrected a previously reported statement that no formal complaints have been made against any of the candidates nominated to succeed her as bishop of Montreal after being asked by the Journal about a harassment complaint made against at least one of them in 2020.
If God is truly the Almighty and the basis of our existence, Christopher Gasson says, then everything anyone can say about life and the world will tell us more about God’s nature—to the point, he believes, that “we can find God in works that are savagely opposed to God.”
Bishop Mary Irwin-Gibson stands by the process to choose the next bishop of Montreal after four of nine search committee members resigned March 10, including the chair—forwarding their nominations to the electoral synod without endorsement and citing concerns over safe church policy and “limitations imposed by canon law” that might prevent them from protecting “the integrity of the ballot.”
Moving forward with a plan nearly 40 years in the making, the diocese of the Arctic has announced the formation of a body tasked with redeveloping buildings on church-owned land into housing and multiuse community centres.
Five individuals have been named to receive the Anglican Award of Merit, the Anglican Church of Canada’s highest award for lay people. Council of General
Vestry resigns en masse to protest lack of response A fired dean and rector at the Cathedral of St. John the Evangelist in Corner Brook,
Primate’s commission to present ‘pathways’ for change in six areas to national council From March 7 to 9, more than 30 Anglicans from across Canada
Community music programs at Anglican parishes across Canada are responding to local needs and attracting growing numbers of outsiders with no previous connection to the
The list of nominees to become the next primate of the Anglican Church of Canada will be announced April 3, General Secretary Archdeacon Alan Perry
Church leaders call to make ceasefire permanent as Anglicans launch international fundraising campaign for St. George’s College, Jerusalem Updated with new material Feb. 19, 2025.
Five dioceses will elect new bishops this spring: Saskatoon, Moosonee, Montreal, the Arctic and Rupert’s Land. The diocese of Saskatoon will hold its episcopal election
Kingston church seeks $2.5 million to save tower; parishioner says governments should be doing more to protect heritage churches For 180 years, St. Mark’s Anglican
Archbishop John Stephens, newly elected metropolitan of the ecclesiastical province of British Columbia and Yukon, says he plans to continue predecessor Archbishop Lynne McNaughton’s work of increasing collaboration between dioceses within the province.
Video footage of all General Synods going back to 1988 and documentaries of all 11 Sacred Circles has now been digitized—converted from videotape into a
Canon Eric Beresford, an influential church ethicist and theologian and the longest-serving president of the Atlantic School of Theology (AST), died suddenly of a heart
The Indigenous Anglican church is beginning work on mental health ministries amid a national epidemic of suicides and overdoses in Indigenous communities, Archdeacon Rosalyn Elm, the church’s Indigenous ministries coordinator, told the Council of General Synod (CoGS) in November.
A ceasefire and the free passage of humanitarian aid into Gaza are urgently needed to halt a genocide in progress, an aid worker with the Episcopal Diocese of Jerusalem says.
A desire for institutional change following the resignation of former Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby could mean the appointment of a successor from outside the United Kingdom—though the main priority for the committee tasked with filling the role is likely to be restoring stability to the Church of England, an Anglican scholar says.
The Ontario Superior Court has overturned the public indecency conviction of an Anglican priest in Toronto and ordered a new trial after an appeal found
Archdeacon Paul Feheley, a church communicator and principal secretary to three primates of the Anglican Church of Canada, has received the 2024 Cross of St.
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