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.
“The fear of the Lord is the root of all wisdom.” That quotation, from Proverbs 9:10, marked the beginning of General Synod treasurer Beng Wee’s relationship with Jesus Christ, he tells the Anglican Journal.
General Synod will likely shift toward supporting programming developed and delivered across diocesan networks rather than delivering that programming itself, says Archbishop Shane Parker, primate of the Anglican Church of Canada.
Cadman, who spoke with the Anglican Journal in January, became the national church’s chancellor—a volunteer officer of General Synod who provides advice on both secular and church law—on Jan. 1.
Archbishop Shane Parker, primate of the Anglican Church of Canada, has written an open letter asking the Canadian government to reconsider an amendment to an upcoming bill that would remove religion as a defence against hate speech charges— while other critics describe the bill itself as an attack on free speech.
The Presbyterian Church in Canada (PCC) has announced it is re-evaluating its course of action on a plan to share office space with the United Church of Canada following the Anglican Church of Canada’s withdrawal from that plan. “The PCC understands that important factors in the originally proposed ecumenical project have changed significantly,” reads a Dec. 12 press release.
Crown attorneys withdrew a trespassing charge against Canon Michael Van Dusen Dec. 23, citing the arresting officers’ failure to provide their notes during discovery.
The Rev. Lucia Lloyd, then of the Episcopal Church, watched the first Trump presidency with apprehension. Her friends told her there would be limits to what damage he could do, despite his discriminatory and hostile rhetoric toward women and minorities, but she remained concerned. One thing she found particularly horrifying, she says, was how many Christians were showing support for the administration’s most divisive policies.
The Anglican Communion must empower diverse cultures to express the faith in their own terms, balanced with the deeper truths that make the denomination unique, say two Canadian Anglicans who served as panelists at a November talk on the faith’s future.
The Anglican Council of Indigenous Peoples (ACIP) elected two new co-chairs Nov. 27: Archdeacon Travis Enright, of the diocese of Edmonton, and the Rev. Catherine Askew, of the Anglican Military Ordinariate.
The Council of General Synod (CoGS) has directed General Secretary Andrea Mann to form a task force and create terms of reference for a national youth council for the Anglican Church of Canada.
Mississauga, Ont. The 2026 budget for the Anglican Church of Canada makes cuts to line items across the board with exceptions for parts of the