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Andrew Asbil (born 1961) is a Canadian Anglican clergyman who has served as 12th bishop of Toronto since January 2019, succeeding Colin Johnson. [1] His father, Walter Asbil , was Bishop of Niagara from 1991 to 1997.
It has the most members of any Anglican diocese in Canada. [2] It is also one of the biggest Anglican dioceses in the Americas in terms of numbers of parishioners, clergy and parishes. [citation needed] As of 2018, the diocese has around 230 congregations and ministries in 183 parishes, with approximately 54,000 Anglicans identified on parish ...
The Anglican Diocese of Canada (formerly known as the Anglican Network in Canada, or ANiC) is the Canadian diocese of the Anglican Church in North America.Established in 2005, prior to becoming a founding diocese of the ACNA, it originated as a group of congregations and clergy that had left the Anglican Church of Canada to affiliate temporarily with the Anglican Province of the Southern Cone ...
James Ferry is an Anglican priest who became a central figure in the struggle of LGBTQ+ inclusion within the Church due to his sexual orientation as a gay man. The issues surrounding Ferry arose in the early 1990’s when he was publicly defrocked by the Anglican church after being outed by Archbishop Terence Finlay, who ordered him to end his ...
Victoria Matthews (born 1954) is a Canadian Anglican bishop. From 2008 until 2018, she served as Bishop of Christchurch in the Anglican Church in Aotearoa, New Zealand and Polynesia. In 1994, she became the first woman ordained bishop in the Anglican Church of Canada when she was made a suffragan bishop of the Diocese of Toronto.
He served as assistant curate of St. Paul's, Halifax, and in the Parish of Cornwallis in Annapolis County before moving to the Diocese of Toronto in 2001. [2] In the Diocese of Toronto, he served as incumbent of St. Bride's, Clarkson, St. John the Evangelist, Port Hope, and All Saints, Whitby. He was archdeacon of the Trent-Durham episcopal ...
In 2012, the Diocese of Montreal ordained two openly gay and partnered men to the diaconate and priesthood. [11] Also in that year, the Diocese of Saskatoon ordained an openly lesbian and married deacon. [12] In 2016, the Diocese of Toronto became the first to elect an openly gay and partnered bishop. [13]
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.