General Synod archivist retires
Sean Frankling
September 22, 2026
General Synod’s retiring archivist, Laurel Parson, reflects on a career spent preserving history and aiding research on sensitive subject matter.
General Synod’s retiring archivist, Laurel Parson, reflects on a career spent preserving history and aiding research on sensitive subject matter.
The primates of North, Central and South America discussed migration, climate change, changing times and Indigenous rights at their August meeting.
The Pathway 5 team is working on questions of jurisdiction and church-to-church relationship in the ongoing formation of Sacred Circle.
St. Brigid’s Community, to consist of volunteers aged 18 to 35, reflects a small but growing groundswell of interest in neo-monastic communities across Canada, say organizers.
Son of a Preacherman is based on Choi’s experience growing up as the son of a Korean-Canadian pastor whose mother had promised God he would become the same—and his journey to working in theatre instead. This fall, Choi is bringing the show on a tour that will take it home to the city that inspired it and the church where it was first staged.
In June 2025, General Synod elected then-bishop of Ottawa, Shane Parker, as primate of the Anglican Church of Canada. One year into a triennium of significant change, the Anglican Journal sat down with Archbishop Parker to discuss the church’s progress so far and his experience leading it as primate.
The new task force is charged with studying practice and ethics surrounding NDA use, following up on work from 2025’s General Synod.
Church leaders agreed they need more information on generative AI technologies to draft guidelines on how they should or should not be used.
Task force chair Paige Keller, a youth member of CoGS from the ecclesiastical province of Ontario, said she and the task force “hope that this work reflects an ongoing commitment to creating space for young people to participate more fully in the life, leadership and discernment of our church.”
Church leadership and staff have been hard at work on the “unambiguous mandate” set by General Synod for a leaner, less expensive national structure, Parker said.
The diocesan executive council has invited Hiltz to facilitate discussion and reconciliation as a pastoral visitor following a cancelled election for a new bishop, originally scheduled for April 25.
Hambidge was bishop of the diocese of New Westminster and metropolitan of the ecclesiastical province of British Columbia and Yukon.
The Bible is more concerned with concrete acts of reconciliation than with modeling how to give a verbal apology, Bishop of Quebec Bruce Myers says. That was one of the key findings he and other members of the Anglican-Roman Catholic Dialogue of Canada (ARC Canada) noted in their document Theology of Church Apologies.
Several religious groups and civil liberties organizations are expressing concerns about Bill C-9, the Combatting Hate Act, which the House of Commons passed in its third and final vote on March 25.
The Anglican Church of Canada has convened a panel of clergy and bishops to study a pair of proposed reforms to the structure of the worldwide Anglican Communion, known as the Nairobi-Cairo Proposals.
Peggy Morrison began working at the Open Arms Café at the North Bay, Ont. parish of St. John the Divine about 14 years ago, inspired by a recurrent dream she believed was God’s call toward work in homelessness and poverty outreach.
A study group in the diocese of Niagara seeks to initiate a conversation about disability and belonging in the diocese, which proponents say can begin a transformation in the way people with disabilities relate to the church.
The Anglican diocese of Ottawa has elected Archdeacon Kathryn Otley, currently the incumbent at All Saints’ Anglican Church Westboro, as its 11th bishop.
The Anglican Church of Canada’s first Inuit bishop, Paul Idlout, lived through a period of massive change in the Arctic that affected his people’s way of life, their relationship to the settler nation of Canada and their position within the Anglican Church of Canada.
St. Jude’s Cathedral in Iqaluit has paid a tax bill, which had previously threatened the cathedral’s financial stability, with the help of several parishes from across the diocese of the Arctic and elsewhere in Canada, diocesan Bishop Alexander Pryor says.