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Representatives of about 10 Canadian churches and church-affiliated organizations will gather in Winnipeg on June 21 — National Aboriginal Day — to renew a landmark covenant with Indigenous peoples that pledges the churches to continue working on human rights and justice issues for native peoples.
What follows is the text of the Presidential Address delivered by Archbishop Andrew Hutchison at the opening service of General Synod in the Cathedral Church of St. John in Winnipeg.
Delegates to the 31st annual convocation of the Navajoland Area Mission affirmed Mark MacDonald in his role as Bishop of Navajoland.
Anglicans from around the country converged on Winnipeg yesterday on the eve of the official opening the Anglican Church of Canada’s 38th General Synod.
More than 400 people including delegates, partners and staff will gather in Winnipeg next week for the Anglican Church of Canada’s 38th General Synod — a crucial assembly that will elect a new national leader or Primate and once again tackle the difficult and divisive issue of the blessing of same-gender relationships.
In his final segment of +Andrew: Conversations With the Primate Archbishop Andrew Hutchison reviews key priorities, moments and events of the past three years.
Archbishop Andrew Hutchison, Primate of the Anglican Church of Canada, officiated at a joyous ceremony consecrating two new suffragan bishops of the Cuban Episcopal Church on June 10.
t is with deep regret and profound sadness that we share the news of the death of Mrs. Betty Livingston on Wednesday June 6th in London. Betty took ill at a dinner following a meeting of General Synod delegates and later died in London hospital.
From start to finish — in fact from before the start until after the finish — www.anglican.ca will be the next best thing to actually being at the Anglican Church of Canada’s 38th General Synod in Winnipeg in June.
The Library and Information Centre of the national office of the Anglican Church of Canada has improved the ways that users can search, see, e-mail, save or print information from its five online databases.
The Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr. Rowan Williams, has sent out the first invitations for the 2008 Lambeth Conference, to be held in Canterbury next summer. The gathering brings together bishops from the churches in the 38 provinces of the Anglican Communion as well as ecumenical and other invited guests.
Jerry Hames, editor of the Canadian Churchman and the Anglican Journal for more than two decades before becoming editor of The Episcopal Church newspaper Episcopal Life in 1990, will retire in June.
The Convening Circular for the 38th General Synod of the Anglican Church of Canada, being held in Winnipeg from June 19-25, 2007 is now online. The Convening Circular contains a draft agenda, information documents, reports, resolutions, and memorials to General Synod. Paper versions of the Convening Circular have been mailed to all delegates.
Profiles for the four candidates nominated for the office of Primate of the Anglican Church of Canada are now posted online at anglican.ca. The House of Bishops at its spring meeting in Niagara Falls chose the candidates, with the election be held at General Synod in Winnipeg on June 22nd, 2007.
Welcome to the next article of IN PLENARY, a feature that we hope will help Anglicans to appreciate and understand the complex issues that will be before General Synod in June, and also allow you to comment on those issues and to converse with other Anglicans from across the country.