Canadian indigenous Anglicans' desire to form a self-determining community within the church took a step forward last summer when the 5th Sacred Circle approved a declaration calling for a native national bishop to be elected with a year.
01 December 2005
The announcement of a comprehensive agreement on native residential schools issues is good news for the Anglican Church and good news for Canada's indigenous people, Archbishop Andrew Hutchison, Primate of the Anglican Church of Canada says. Archbishop Hutchison hailed Ottawa's promise of generous compensation for people who attended the Indian Residential Schools and said the Anglican church remains committed to its work in healing and reconciliation with indigenous people.
25 November 2005
Bishop Paterson addressed the Council of General Synod during a two-day visit as the council gathered in Mississauga, Ont, Nov 17-20 as well as hearing presentations to CoGS by Canadians who attended the Anglican Consultative Council's meeting in Nottingham this summer
25 November 2005
November 5, 2005 - Electors in the ecclesiastical (church) province of British Columbia and the Yukon, meeting on Nov. 4 in Richmond, British Columbia, near Vancouver, chose Bishop Terrence Buckle of the diocese of the Yukon as metropolitan, or provincial archbishop.
08 November 2005
Popularly known for his leading role in Mozambique's peace talks, Anglican bishop Dinis Sengulane of the Mozambican diocese of Lebombo is now leading a fight against Mozambique's number one killer disease, malaria.
14 October 2005
The Primate of the Anglican Church of Canada has told indigenous church members that he will do his best to see that a national native bishop is elected, if possible within a year.
19 August 2005
The Third Afro-Anglicanism Conference ended July 26 with a rousing worship service relating to the conference's theme 'Celebrating the Gifts of Afro-Anglicanism.
09 August 2005
In mid-March, Lynne Watson and a small army of young cooks made nearly 300 cream-filled Easter eggs to help fund Trinity Church, Aurora's second mission trip to Mexico.
22 July 2005
The Anglican Church of Canada today launches a series of online databases to facilitate research on Anglican policies, resolutions and books.
13 May 2005
In the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, the Bishops of the Anglican Church of Canada, meeting collegially in Windsor, Ontario, April 25-27, 2005, send warm greetings to the Church. We met together in an atmosphere of prayer, which was hallmarked by charity and generosity of spirit.
29 April 2005