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Pages in category "Moderators of the United Church of Canada" The following 27 pages are in this category, out of 27 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
The Moderator of the United Church of Canada is the most senior elected official within the United Church of Canada. He or she may be a lay person or a member of the Order of Ministry and is elected to a three-year term by commissioners attending the church's triannual General Council .
Moderators of the United Church of Canada (27 P) Pages in category "Members of the United Church of Canada" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 235 total.
N. Bruce McLeod (born 1930) is a former Moderator of the United Church of Canada (1972–1974). [2] He has a doctorate in preaching from Union Theological Seminary in New York.
The United Church was founded in 1925 as a merger of four Protestant denominations with a total combined membership of about 600,000 members: [4] the Methodist Church, Canada, the Congregational Union of Ontario and Quebec, two-thirds of the congregations of the Presbyterian Church in Canada, and the Association of Local Union Churches, a ...
The United Church diaconate dates back to the establishment of Presbyterian and Methodist Deaconess Orders and Deaconness training schools in the 1890's. In the 1980s Deaconesses, Certified Churchmen, and Commissioned Ministers became known as Diaconal Ministers.
He emigrated to Canada with his family at the age of seventeen and grew up in a farming community on the Canadian Prairies. Endicott studied at Wesley College in Winnipeg, Manitoba, and was ordained as a Methodist minister in 1893. [1] He was elected Moderator of the United Church of Canada by the 2nd General Council in Montreal, Quebec, in ...
human resource policies within the church; the church's archives; The General Council Office consists of the Moderator, the General Secretary and other support staff to the General Council, as well as members of the four permanent committees of the General Council, seven major working units and various other committees and task groups. The ...