Author: Jan Connors
Provincial Prayer Care
Unfortunately, due to extenuating circumstances, the October through December 2019 issue of the Provincial Prayer Care is not available. If and when any portion of it is compiled, it will be posted here.
Provincial Prayer Care July – September 2019
Prayer Care – April through June 2019
Praying for one another…
The newly elected Provincial Council
Bishop-elect
Provincial Synod
June 7 – 9, 2018
venue: University of King’s College, Halifax, Nova Scotia
Installation of Metropolitan
The Installation of Archbishop Ron Cutler as Metropolitan of the Province of Canada, will take place on Wednesday, November 1st, 2017 at 7:00 p.m. at the Cathedral Church of All Saints, 1330 Cathedral Lane, Halifax, NS B3H 2Z1
Province of Canada elects new Metropolitan
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – May 8, 2017
Province of Canada elects new Metropolitan
The Rt. Rev. Ronald W. Cutler, bishop of the Diocese of Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island has been elected as the next Metropolitan of the Ecclesiastical Province of Canada, succeeding Archbishop Percy Coffin.
The Archbishop-elect was ordained as deacon and priest in 1981 and elected a bishop in 2008 in the Diocese of Nova Scotia & PEI. In reflecting on Episcopal ministry, he said, “My experience of episcopal ministry as suffragan, coadjutor and as diocesan, has been one of journeying with people in transition. Working with those discerning a call to leadership both lay and ordained, with communities experiencing demographic shifts and parishes struggling with what it means to be faithful in this time and place.”
When asked to describe his vision for the Province of Canada, the new Archbishop-elect responded, “I believe that if the Provincial expression of our church is to have any relevance to the ongoing faith life of Anglicans in Eastern Canada, we must take seriously the ways in which the ‘political, economic, educational and social dimensions’ of our lives have been changing. The gatherings of the Province may be the place where we share the ways in which we are seeking to engage God’s mission in these times and how we might best resource the faith communities where disciples are made, nurtured and formed.”
The Ecclesiastical Province of Canada consists of the Dioceses of Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island, Quebec, Fredericton, Montreal, Eastern Newfoundland and Labrador, Central Newfoundland, and Western Newfoundland. The Provincial Synod normally meets every three years with delegates from all member dioceses.
The vote for the Metropolitan was taken electronically from May 2 to 6, 2017 by the Electoral Synod of the Ecclesiastical Province of Canada with Archbishop-elect Cutler receiving the required majority in the Houses of Laity, Clergy, and Bishops. The date of the Installation of the Archbishop-elect will be announced in the near future.
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Learn more:
Archbishop-elect Ronald Cutler –http://www.nspeidiocese.ca/page/bishop%20ron.aspx#.WRA_LNTytdi
Press release prepared by: The Venerable Sam Rose – srose@anglicanenl.net
Communications for Province of Canada