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Northern Ontario Anglicans ‘just keep giving’ as homelessness crisis looms

Sean Frankling — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 19:42:56 +0000

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.

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Diocese of Niagara begins disability theology work

Sean Frankling — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 16:00:33 +0000

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.

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Archdeacon Kathryn Otley elected bishop of Ottawa

Sean Frankling — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 14:53:38 +0000

The Anglican diocese of Ottawa has elected Archdeacon Kathryn Otley, currently the incumbent at All Saints’ Anglican Church Westboro, as its 11th bishop.

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Jonas Allooloo, key translator of first Inuktitut Bible, dead at 79

Matthew Puddister — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 14:00:02 +0000

Canon Jonas Allooloo, former dean of St. Jude’s Cathedral in Iqaluit, Nunavut and a key member of the translation team that created the first Inuktitut Bible, died Feb. 23 in Ottawa at the age of 79.

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Paul Idlout: Hunter, bishop, brother

Sean Frankling — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 19:29:19 +0000

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.

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Arctic cathedral’s tax bill paid, exemption restored

Sean Frankling — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 19:39:40 +0000

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.

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General Synod’s new treasurer places accountability to God at core of role

Sean Frankling — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 20:11:43 +0000

“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.

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Western Arctic church replanting project seeks to rebuild congregations, strengthen local leaders

Matthew Puddister — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 16:59:06 +0000

The Rev. Whitney DeWare’s first mission trip to Ulukhaktok, N.W.T., drove home for her the sense felt by many Christians in the Western Arctic that the church has abandoned or forgotten about them, she says. But it also showed her the enthusiasm with which they responded when visiting clergy reached back out to them.

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National church could support diocesan networks, primate says

Sean Frankling — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 16:30:09 +0000

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.

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Mixed-ecology church model growing in Anglican parishes

Matthew Puddister — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 21:25:39 +0000

The Church of England declared in its vision and strategy for the 2020s that one of its three priorities was to “be a church where mixed ecology is the norm”. But the concept of a “mixed-ecology” church, in which a traditional parish co-exists with new expressions of church, has also become increasingly popular within the Anglican Church of Canada.

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