Anglicans from across Canada and around the world will be watching General Synod 2007 live by web stream. For more coverage and analysis, viewers can check out “Synod on Demand”, a daily analysis piece hosted by Tim Morgan of Winnipeg. Featuring interviews, synod highlights, and commentary by Tim and others, “Synod on Demand” is a must-see for General Synod followers.
What follows is the text of the Presidential Address delivered by Archbishop Andrew Hutchison at the opening service of General Synod in the Cathedral Church of St. John in Winnipeg.
Delegates to the 31st annual convocation of the Navajoland Area Mission affirmed Mark MacDonald in his role as Bishop of Navajoland.
Anglicans from around the country converged on Winnipeg yesterday on the eve of the official opening the Anglican Church of Canada’s 38th General Synod.
More than 400 people including delegates, partners and staff will gather in Winnipeg next week for the Anglican Church of Canada’s 38th General Synod — a crucial assembly that will elect a new national leader or Primate and once again tackle the difficult and divisive issue of the blessing of same-gender relationships.
In his final segment of +Andrew: Conversations With the Primate Archbishop Andrew Hutchison reviews key priorities, moments and events of the past three years.
Archbishop Andrew Hutchison, Primate of the Anglican Church of Canada, officiated at a joyous ceremony consecrating two new suffragan bishops of the Cuban Episcopal Church on June 10.
From start to finish — in fact from before the start until after the finish — www.anglican.ca will be the next best thing to actually being at the Anglican Church of Canada’s 38th General Synod in Winnipeg in June.
The Library and Information Centre of the national office of the Anglican Church of Canada has improved the ways that users can search, see, e-mail, save or print information from its five online databases.
The Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr. Rowan Williams, has sent out the first invitations for the 2008 Lambeth Conference, to be held in Canterbury next summer. The gathering brings together bishops from the churches in the 38 provinces of the Anglican Communion as well as ecumenical and other invited guests.
Jerry Hames, editor of the Canadian Churchman and the Anglican Journal for more than two decades before becoming editor of The Episcopal Church newspaper Episcopal Life in 1990, will retire in June.
Welcome to the next article of IN PLENARY, a feature that we hope will help Anglicans to appreciate and understand the complex issues that will be before General Synod in June, and also allow you to comment on those issues and to converse with other Anglicans from across the country.
Archbishop Andrew Hutchison, Primate of the Anglican Church of Canada, reflects on a “remarkable” meeting of the Canadian House of Bishops, in a new webcast posted to the General Synod website today.
On a beautiful Sunday morning in July of 2001, in an arena at Kitchener-Waterloo, members of the Anglican Church of Canada (ACC) General Synod and delegates to the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada (ELCIC) National Convention, along with many local members and friends, came together to celebrate the Full Communion relationship between our two churches. There was great jubilation in the congregation, and at the end of the morning, during the recessional music, the then Anglican Primate, Michael Peers, and the then National Bishop of the ELCIC, Telmor Sartison, were dancing in the sheer joy of the moment.
At its meeting last month, the House of Bishops considered a draft pastoral statement on same-sex blessings that could be sent to all delegates to General Synod as part of the Convening Circular.
The bishops did not have the time to complete their work on this statement, but a revised draft was sent to them for a vote by email shortly after the conclusion of the meeting. With the email vote now completed, the following pastoral statement will be sent to delegates of General Synod.