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The Diocese of Toronto is an administrative division of the Anglican Church of Canada covering the central part of southern Ontario. It was founded in 1839 and is the oldest of the seven dioceses comprising the Ecclesiastical Province of Ontario. It has the most members of any Anglican diocese in Canada. [2]
The National Indigenous Anglican Archbishop has no metropolitical authority, but also bears the style of The Most Reverend and the title Archbishop. The holder of this office (established as a bishopric in 2005, inaugurated in 2007, and raised to the status of an archbishopric in 2019) has the spiritual leadership of indigenous people nationwide.
The City of Toronto is incorporated, replacing the township of York. 1837: December 7: The Battle of Montgomery's Tavern occurs. 1839 or 1840: The first Catholic school in Toronto is opened. [10] 1839 December: St. James Church becomes the cathedral church of the Anglican Diocese of Toronto. [11] 1841: December 28
Anglican and Episcopal History 57.3 (1988): 255–271. online; Schurman, Donald M. A bishop and his people: John Travers Lewis and the Anglican Diocese of Ontario, 1862–1902 (Anglican Church of Canada, Ontario Diocesan Synod, 1991). Wilson, Alan. The Clergy Reserves of Upper Canada (Canadian Historical Association, 19690 online.
Toronto is in the Anglican Diocese of Toronto, which includes the city of Toronto and much of south central Ontario. The eastern part of Toronto is part of the York-Scarborough episcopal area while the western half of the city is in the York-Credit Valley, which also includes Mississaga and Peel. The city is further divided into nine deaneries.
The Cathedral of St. Alban the Martyr is an unfinished Anglican church in Toronto, Ontario, which serves as the school chapel of Royal St. George's College.. Completed in 1891, what stands today is only two-thirds of the planned Gothic Revival church designed by Richard C. Windeyer, Sr. to serve as the cathedral of the Anglican Diocese of Toronto.
Toronto (Ontario). Provinces of the Anglican Church of Canada are headed by a Metropolitan, who is elected from among the province's diocesan bishops. This bishop then becomes Archbishop of his or her diocese and Metropolitan of the province. Since 2014, the Metropolitan of Ontario also becomes ex officio the diocesan Bishop of Moosonee.
The Parkdale-Toronto West Deanery in the Anglican Diocese of Toronto is a group of 17 Anglican parishes and chapels in downtown Toronto, Canada.They include the churches of St. Anne's, Epiphany and St. Mark, Parkdale, St. George by the Grange, St. Mary Magdalene, St. Matthias Bellwoods, St. Stephen-in-the-Fields, and St. Thomas's Anglican Church (Toronto).