The Indigenous Anglican Sacred Circle is the national gathering and decision-making body for Indigenous Anglicans in Canada. Since 1988, First Nations, Métis and Inuit members of local Anglican churches have gathered every three years to talk about our spiritual lives, past and present experiences, our hopes for the future and our relationships with the Anglican Church of Canada.
Delegates have been selected either by the bishops of dioceses with “significant Indigenous ministry” or the diocesan committee/council on Indigenous ministry. Numbers of delegates from each area have been determined by the Anglican Council of Indigenous Peoples.
The Ninth Indigenous Anglican Sacred Circle will continue the journey toward self–determination and becoming an Indigenous church within the Anglican Church of Canada.
Daily reports
News from the Anglican Journal
Documents from Sacred Circle
- An Indigenous Spiritual Movement – Becoming What God Intends us to be
- Rev. Dr. Martin Brokenleg (Lakota): The Spirituality of Self-determination, why it is important. Watch online or download the video Rev. Dr. Brokenleg’s presentation.
- Opening Homily by the Most Rev. Fred Hiltz, Primate of the Anglican Church of Canada
Background documents
- Indigenous foundations: A Covenant and our Journey of Spiritual Renewal (1994)
- The Pinawa Declaration (2005)
- The Mississauga Declaration (2011)
- Where We Are Today: Twenty Years after the Covenant, an Indigenous Call to the Wider Church (2014)
- The Corn Soup Meeting I (2017)
- The Corn Soup Meeting II (2017)
- The Call from Warm Springs: A Call to the Church from The National Consultation on Indigenous Self-Determination (2017)
- Presentation: A Confederacy of Indigenous Anglican Lands in Circle with the Primal Elements
- Canon XXII—The National Indigenous Ministry