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The General Synod of the Anglican Church of Canada is the chief governing and legislative body of the Anglican Church of Canada (ACC), the sole Canadian representative of the Anglican Communion. The first General Synod session was held in Toronto in 1893, with the proviso that the parameters of its authority would not undermine the local ...
This is a list of archives in Canada. These archives , for the purposes of this list, are entities in Canada that work to acquire, preserve, and make available material as documentary evidence about a person, community, business, government, municipality, etc., for future generations. [ 1 ]
In Canada, Anglican bishops have divested some of their authority to three bodies – the General Synod, the Provincial Synod (there are four in Canada) and the diocesan synods (there are 29). The national church in Canada is structured on the typical Anglican model of a presiding archbishop (the Primate ) and Synod .
The archival collection of the Anglican Diocese of Algoma is held at Algoma University in the Engracia de Jesus Matias Archives and Special Collections. [6] The dean of Algoma is also rector of St Luke's Cathedral, Sault Ste. Marie. 1935–1940: Percy Alfred Paris [7] [8] 1941–1944: William Lockridge Wright (Bishop of Algoma, 1944)
The Ecclesiastical Province of Canada was founded in 1860, originally consisting of the four dioceses in the then civil Province of Canada (Upper and Lower Canada, i.e. modern Ontario and Quebec, respectively) under the metropolitical authority of the Bishop of Montreal. The province was expanded in 1870 and 1871 to include New Brunswick and ...
The diocese was established in New Westminster in 1879 and incorporated April 18, 1893 (An Act to incorporate the Anglican Synod of the Diocese of New Westminster {Statutes of British Columbia 1893, Chapter 45 with amendments to 1961 {1900, 1915, 1961} 18th April 1893) , but with the considerable growth of the City of Vancouver, the see city ...
No. Name Dates Notes 1 Cyprian Pinkham: 1888–1927 2 Louis Sherman: 1927–1943 3 Harry Ragg: 1943–1952 4 George Calvert: 1952–~1967 5 Morse Goodman
Description of Diocese of Rupert's Land archives at the University of Manitoba Archives & Special Collections Anglican Journal article on the election of Bishop Phillips . The Rainbow in the North: A Short Account of the First Establishment of Christianity in Rupert's Land by the Church Missionary Society , by Sarah Tucker (1851) .