A PATH FORWARD
Metropolitical Determination and Path Forward
from Misconduct Complaints against the Bishop of Western Newfoundland and Labrador Straits by the Former Dean of the Cathedral of St John the Evangelist.
Author: Jan Connors
The 50th Session of Synod for the Ecclesiastical Province of Canada
took place via Zoom on Friday and Saturday, June 14-15, 2024. Visit the MEMBERS page for the list of those elected as Officers and Provincial Council positions.
Quick link to Safe Church QUIZ
Provincial Synod Delegates, are encouraged to complete the Provincial Safe Quiz before Synod begins on June 14, 2024. HERE
50th Session of ECCLESIASTIAL PROVINCE of CANADA SYNOD
Friday, June 14 and Saturday, June 15, 2024
via Zoom
All Delegates should have received the initial package of documents via email. If you are a Delegate and have not received the package, please contact us at: provincialsynod@gmail.com
Save the dates
Provincial Council will meet on Saturday, October 14, 2023 via Zoom. More details soon.
The next meeting of Provincial Synod for the Ecclesiastical Province of Canada is June 14-15, 2024.
Provincial Synod has adjourned
Check-out this screenshot that includes most members of the new Provincial Council.
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Membership and documents will be updated on the website soon.
Provincial Safe Church Quiz
Attention All Delegates: The Provincial Safe Church multiple choice quiz is now ready for your participation. Please visit the Provincial Synod 2021 page (the password is required) and follow the link for the quiz. Please complete it as soon as possible, but before the opening of Synod on June 18th.
Provincial Synod Delegates
Provincial Synod Delegates may now access a variety of documents, reports, and resolutions on the Synod 2021 page HERE. The password was included in the letter emailed to you from Susan Winn, Lay Secretary. Please check back often as reports and, perhaps, additional motions will be posted as available.
Any questions should be direct to Susan, or Mark Kingsbury, Clerical Secretary via email.
Provincial Synod
The next Synod of the Ecclessiastical Province of Canada will meet, via Zoom, on Friday, June 18th and Saturday, June 19, 2021 from 10:30 am until 4:00 pm Atlantic time.
Delegates should anticipate receiving direct communications on or shortly after April 30th.
New Metropolitan elected
The Synod of the Ecclesiastical Province of Canada is pleased to announce that the Rt. Rev’d David Edwards has been elected Metropolitan of the Province on the third ballot.
Bishop Edwards was born and educated in Shropshire, England. He studied at Loughborough University and Homerton College Cambridge and worked as a high school history teacher prior to completing diplomas in Religious and Evangelism Studies followed by a Master of Arts in Applied Theology at the University of Kent at Canterbury.
Both prior to and following his ordination in 1995, Bishop Edwards served in ministry in the Chelmsford Diocese in England, including as Bishop’s Advisor in Evangelism and in the Parish of High Ongar. He moved to New Brunswick in 1998 to be Principal of Taylor College of Evangelism. He has also served in parishes in Saint John, as Parish Development Officer for the Diocese of Fredericton and as Vice-Chair of Safe Harbour Transitional Youth Services in Saint John.
He was elected coadjutor bishop of the Diocese of Fredericton on May 10, 2014 and, subsequently, installed as the tenth Bishop of Fredericton September 20 2014
He will assume the office of Metropolitan of the Ecclesiastical Province of Canada upon the retirement of Archbishop Ron Cutler on August 1 2020.
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The Most Rev. Ron Cutler
Archbishop of Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island
Email: bishopsoffice@nspeidiocese.caa
We acknowledge that we meet and work in Mi’kma’ki, the ancestral and unceeded territory of the Mi’kmaq who have been living on these lands since time immemorial. Recognising that this is a small but meaningful step in reconciliation and the continued efforts of building a strong Nation-to-Nation relationship, as we are all Treaty people.