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Linda Nicholls was elected Suffragan Bishop of Toronto on the third ballot at an electoral synod on November 17, 2007, at St. Paul's Bloor Street. She was consecrated on February 2, 2008, at the Cathedral Church of St. James, becoming the third female Anglican bishop in the Diocese of Toronto and the fourth in the Anglican Church in Canada.
1850, from Quebec diocese [10] 68 7,017 3,405 Huron: Ontario Ontario St. Paul's Cathedral: London: Todd Townshend: 1857, from Toronto diocese [7] 124 21,000 6,000 British Columbia (also known as the diocese of Islands and Inlets) British Columbia and Yukon: British Columbia: Christ Church Cathedral: Victoria: Anna Greenwood-Lee: 1859, [11] from ...
[60] [61] In 2019, the General Synod approved a resolution which allows each provincial synod and diocese to bless or perform same-sex marriages if they choose to do so. [ 62 ] The Diocese of Toronto has specifically allowed churches to perform same-sex marriages as of mid-November 2016 when Archbishop Colin Johnson issued the Pastoral ...
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.
Linda Carol Nicholls (born October 25, 1954) [2] is a Canadian Anglican bishop who served as Primate of the Anglican Church of Canada from 2019 until her retirement in 2024. . She was previously Bishop of Huron from 2016 to 2019 and a suffragan bishop in the Anglican Diocese of Toronto from 2008 to 2
The General Synod of the Anglican Church Of Canada normally meets every three years. In 2011, the Diocese of Ottawa allowed a local option for parishes to perform same-sex marriages with the permission of the bishop. In 2013, the dioceses of Ontario, Huron and British Columbia joined several others in allowing blessings for gay and lesbian ...
A Diocesan synod is a meeting in the Catholic church of various people in a diocese. Diocesan synods are called by the bishop , and are used to discuss pastoral issues in the diocese. [ 1 ]
She was elected suffragan bishop in the Diocese of Toronto on 19 November 1993 and was ordained to the episcopate on 12 February 1994. She later was the first woman to become a diocesan bishop in Canada when she was elected as Bishop of Edmonton in 1997, an office she held until 2007 when she resigned.