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8 unusual facts about Anglican Church of Canada


Christ Church Deer Park

In 1970, the church was the site of the ordination to the priesthood of Andrew Hutchison, who would later serve as Primate of the Anglican Church of Canada.

Church of St. Martin-in-the-Fields, Toronto

The Church of St. Martin-in-the-Fields is a parish of the Anglican Diocese of Toronto in the Anglican Church of Canada.

Hilton Beach

A school was established in 1877, and in 1881 St. John's Anglican Church was erected.

Lay confession

As an example, the Anglican Church of Canada states, in the preface to its liturgical rite for "The Reconciliation of a Penitent", the following: "The absolution in these services may be pronounced only by a bishop or a priest. If a deacon or a lay person hears a confession, a declaration of forgiveness may be made in the form provided".

Promenades Cathédrale

Originally named Promenades de la Cathédrale, the complex is located beneath Montreal's Anglican Christ Church Cathedral.

St. Anne's Anglican Church

Anne's, Gladstone Avenue (in earlier documents, St Anne's, Brockton and popularly the Group of Seven Church) in Toronto is a National Historic Site and parish of the Anglican Church of Canada.

Strachan Bethune

Strachan Bethune (November 6, 1821 - March 8, 1910), Q.C., twice Bâtonnier of Montreal and the 1st Anglican Chancellor of the Diocese of Montreal.

The Rebel Angels

-- Maria calls Parlabane gay when talking to Hollier and he says no, he is not gay but that he is only a sodomite --> with a thundering voice, voracious appetite; Anglican priest and professor of New Testament Greek Simon Darcourt; Maria Theotoky, a graduate student researching Rabelais; Clement Hollier, a frazzled and absentminded professor; and Urquhart McVarish, a greedy and manipulative counterpoint to Hollier.


Anglican devotions

Many Anglican churches use contemporary alternatives to the Prayer Book, such as Common Worship (Church of England), or the Book of Alternative Services (Anglican Church of Canada).

David Scrymgeour

Mr. Scrymgeour has engaged as an advisor, donor and board member for organizations including the Belinda Stronach Foundation, Canadian Executive Service Organization, Oak Ridges Moraine Land Trust, Anglican Church of Canada, the Make Poverty History Campaign and the Canadian Lung Association.

Global Anglican Future Conference

The conference participants also called for the creation of the Anglican Church in North America as an alternative to the Episcopal Church in the United States and the Anglican Church of Canada and declared that recognition by the Archbishop of Canterbury is not necessary to Anglican identity.

Muskrat Dam Lake First Nation

Gordon Beardy—former Keewatin Bishop for the Anglican Church of Canada who was the first Native diocesan bishop in Canada; also elected and served as the First Nation's Chief in 2002.

Pro-cathedral

In Qu'Appelle, Saskatchewan, the parish church of Saint Peter's was the pro-cathedral for the Anglican southern Saskatchewan diocese until 1944.

Sir Francis Heathcote, 9th Baronet

He was appointed Archdeacon of Vancouver in 1913 and later succeeded the Reverend Adam de Pencier as Bishop of New Westminster of the Anglican Church of Canada, located in the Lower Mainland of British Columbia, in 1940.

William Bompas

William Carpenter Bompas (20 January 1834 – 9 June 1906) was a Church of England clergyman and missionary in northwestern Canada, first Anglican bishop of the Athabasca diocese, then of the Mackenzie River diocese and then of the Selkirk (Yukon) diocese as these dioceses were successively carved out of the original Rupert's Land diocese.


see also

General Synod of the Anglican Church of Canada

2007: Fred Hiltz was elected the thirteenth primate of the Anglican Church of Canada.

2004: Andrew Hutchison is elected twelfth Primate of the Anglican Church of Canada.

Hiltz

Fred Hiltz, the current Primate of the Anglican Church of Canada

Mary Adelia McLeod

Michael Geoffrey Peers, Primate of the Anglican Church of Canada and 28 Episcopal and Anglican Bishops participated in the historic service.

Renison

Renison University College, public college with a strong affiliation with the Anglican Church of Canada

Sweatman

Arthur Sweatman (1834–1909), Canadian priest, archbishop, and the 3rd Primate of the Anglican Church of Canada