Zimbabwean priest elected 14th bishop of Rupert’s Land - Anglican Journal
The diocese of Rupert’s Land has elected a Winnipeg priest originally from Zimbabwe as its new bishop.| Anglican Journal
The diocese of Rupert’s Land has elected a Winnipeg priest originally from Zimbabwe as its new bishop.| Anglican Journal
The Anglican diocese of Montreal has elected a Congolese Canadian and former Roman Catholic priest as its 13th bishop.| Anglican Journal
A resolution to be considered at General Synod 2025, which begins June 23 and runs until June 29, asks the church’s governing body to examine allowing future primates of the Anglican Church of Canada to retain their roles as diocesan bishops or metropolitans.| Anglican Journal
The orders of clergy and laity have elected Bishop Shane Parker of the diocese of Ottawa as the new primate of the Anglican Church of Canada. Parker was not on the list of candidates announced prior to the primatial election or on the first or second ballots of the day, but the Order of Bishops—which, according to church canons, nominates but does not vote for primatial candidates—added his name to the list of candidates on the third ballot in response to a motion from the Order of Laity ...| Anglican Journal
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.”| Anglican Journal
The diocese of the Arctic has elected and consecrated three new bishops at its diocesan synod, running May 8 to 15 in Edmonton. Former Executive Archdeacon Alexander Pryor has been consecrated as the new diocesan bishop. Assisting him as suffragans will be bishops Anne Martha Keenainak and Jared Osborn. The three will succeed former Diocesan Bishop David Parsons and suffragan bishops Joey Royal and Lucy Nester, all of whom retired in 2024.| Anglican Journal
Friends and colleagues remember Bishop Robert Bennett, formerly of the diocese of Huron, as a caring, hilarious and deeply pastoral bishop who invariably put his relationships with parishioners first. Bennett died April 14 after a life touched by the love of his wife, Kathleen, their daughters Meghan and Jessica and countless Anglicans, an amazing number of whom Bennett always remembered by name, say his friends.| Anglican Journal
