Canada

Following the election of Bishop William Cliff on April 29th to serve as the 13th bishop of our diocese, an allegation against Bishop Cliff was received by our Metropolitan Archbishop Anne Germond. The result of that allegation paused the concurrence process and necessitated the commencement of a formal investigative process undertaken at the Provincial level. Bishop Cliff was placed on an administrative suspension, known as an inhibition, a normal step in such circumstances pending the outcome of an investigation.

By Jason G. Antonio Canadian bishops can hire priests from the Anglican Church in North America (ACNA), should they choose,

The General Synod of the Anglican Church of Canada met during the same week as the Special Convention of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Canda (ELCIC), with a number of joint sessions for worship, fellowship, Bible study, presentations and table discussions …

At its General Synod held in Calgary, Alberta, on June 30, the Anglican Church of Canada authorized “Pastoral Liturgies for Journeys of Gender Transition and Affirmation” but with the amendment “where authorized by the ordinary.”

WHILE most Canadians were preparing to relax and enjoy the long Canada Day weekend, over two hundred Anglicans were gathered in Calgary, Alberta to study, debate and vote on numerous resolutions at the 43rd General Synod of the Anglican Church of Canada.

ONLY THREE DAYS after being elected as the next bishop of the Diocese of Ontario, William Cliff, currently the bishop of Brandon, has been inhibited in both the Ecclesiastical Province of Ontario by Metropolitan Anne Germond and in his home Province of Rupertsland by Archbishop Greg Kerr-Wilson. 

Trial Pastoral Liturgies for Journeys of Gender Transition and Affirmation, proposed governance changes and the reception of a document related to Abp. Mark McDonald’s resignation were on the agenda at the March 3-5 meeting of the Council of General Synod. 

A PRIEST serving in the Anglican Church of Canada has written an excellent article on the current state of euthanasia and assisted suicide in Canada and the churches’ response to it.