meetings of the General Synod and related announcements
This section shares key announcements and leadership updates, also highlighting officer appointments and news from the meetings of the General Synod, convened roughly every three years.
April 19, 2004Canadian Anglican bishops have selected four from among their own number to be candidates for an election to the office of Primate, which will be held next month in St.…- April 14, 2004The Anglican Church of Canada will formally address the controversial issue of the blessing of same-sex unions when its principal governing body meets in St. Catharines, Ont., next month. In…
- April 6, 2004More than 300 members of the Anglican Church of Canada's General Synod (the church's chief governing body) will elect a new Primate, successor to Archbishop Michael Peers who retired in…
- December 24, 2003A revised plan to guide the work and mission of the Anglican Church of Canada from 2004 to 2010 has now been sent to church committees. The committees and Anglicans…
- December 16, 2003The Anglican Church of Canada’s commitment to raising $25-million for a residential schools settlement fund has not changed, despite a British Columbia Court of Appeal ruling that the government is…
- March 11, 2003Ralph Goodale, Minister responsible for Indian Residential Schools Resolution, and leaders of the Anglican Church from across Canada today ratified an agreement that details the payment of compensation to victims with valid…
- March 10, 2003A national task force is considering a fixed nine-year term for the Primate of the Anglican Church of Canada, currently serving until age 70 or resignation, to balance continuity, renewal…
- March 5, 2003The Anglican Church will contribute $25-million to a residential schools settlement, with federal support as needed, formalized at a signing ceremony in Toronto on March 11.
- February 10, 2003The last of 30 dioceses of the Anglican Church of Canada have now ratified an agreement with the federal government which caps the church's liability in residential schools litigation at…
- January 17, 2003Half of the Anglican Church of Canada's 30 dioceses have now ratified an agreement on residential schools reached last November between the church and the federal government. The agreement, which…
