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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.
The current and former Moderators of the United Church of Canada Pages in category "Moderators of the United Church of Canada" The following 27 pages are in this category, out of 27 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.
Gary J. Paterson (born 1949) was the Moderator of the United Church of Canada from 2012 to 2015. He was the first openly gay person to take the post since the church was formed in 1925 and the first in the world to lead a major Christian denomination.
William Frederick Allen Phipps (May 4, 1942 – March 4, 2022) was a Canadian ordained minister of the United Church of Canada, lawyer and social activist.He served as the 36th Moderator of the United Church of Canada from 1997 to 2000, and engendered controversy for expressing support for gay ordination and not believing in a physical Resurrection of Jesus.
Wilbur Kenneth Howard OOnt (February 29, 1912 - April 17, 2001) was the first black person to be ordained as a minister in the United Church of Canada and, in 1974, became the denomination's first black moderator. He was elected Moderator after the fifth ballot during the meeting of the 26th General Council in Guelph, Ontario. [1]
Carmen Lansdowne (born 1975) is a minister of the United Church of Canada who is currently the 44th Moderator of that church. Lansdowne is the first Indigenous woman to lead a religious denomination in Canada.
Jordan Cantwell (born 1967) was the Moderator of the United Church of Canada from 2015 to 2018. She was ordained as a minister of the United Church in 2010, and was elected to the position of Moderator at the 42nd General Council of the church in Corner Brook, Newfoundland and Labrador, in 2015.