List of dioceses of the Anglican Church of Canada

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The Anglican Church of Canada, a member church of the worldwide Anglican Communion, contains twenty nine dioceses and one non-diocesan administrative region organised into four ecclesiastical provinces.

All but five dioceses are contiguous with a single civil province or territory. The exceptions are the Arctic, Keewatin, Moosonee, Ottawa, and Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island.

Each diocese has a bishop, four of whom are archbishops serving as metropolitans of their ecclesiastical province. Dioceses are self-governing entities, incorporated under the Corporations Act of the civil province or territory in which they are active. Diocesan synods generally meet annually and have responsibility for all aspects of church life, except that which concerns doctrine, discipline, or worship. These matters are the purview of the General Synod of the national church, which meets triennially and at other times delegates its powers to an elected body of clergy and laity called the Council of General Synod and to the Primate of the Anglican Church of Canada.

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Dioceses and bishops [edit]

Diocese Province Territory Cathedral See City Bishop(s) Founded
Algoma Ontario Ontario St. Luke's Cathedral Sault Ste. Marie Stephen Andrews 1873
Arctic Rupert's Land Northwest Territories and Nunavut St. Jude's Cathedral Iqaluit, NU Diocesan: Andrew Atagotaaluk

Suffragan: Ben Arreak

 1933
Athabasca Rupert's Land Alberta St. James' Cathedral Peace River Fraser Lawton 1876
Brandon Rupert's Land Manitoba St. Matthew's Cathedral Brandon Jim Njegovan 1913
British Columbia British Columbia and the Yukon British Columbia Christ Church Cathedral Victoria Jim Cowan 1875
Caledonia British Columbia and the Yukon British Columbia St. Andrew's Cathedral Prince Rupert William Anderson 1879
Calgary Rupert's Land Alberta Cathedral Church of the Redeemer Calgary Greg Kerr-Wilson 1888
Anglican Parishes of the Central Interior British Columbia and the Yukon British Columbia St. Paul's Cathedral Kamloops Suffragan to the Metropolitan: Barbara Andrews 2002[N 1]
Central Newfoundland Canada Newfoundland and Labrador St. Martin's Cathedral Gander David Torraville 1976
Eastern Newfoundland and Labrador Canada Newfoundland and Labrador Cathedral Church of St. John the Baptist St. John's Cyrus Pitman 1839[N 2]
Edmonton Rupert's Land Alberta All Saints' Cathedral Edmonton Jane Alexander 1913
Fredericton Canada New Brunswick Christ Church Cathedral Fredericton Claude Miller 1845
Huron Ontario Ontario St. Paul's Cathedral London Diocesan: Bob Bennett

Suffragan: Terry Dance

 1857
Keewatin Rupert's Land Ontario and Manitoba St. Alban's Cathedral Kenora, ON Diocesan: David Ashdown

Area Bishop for Northern Ontario: Lydia Mamakwa

 1902
Kootenay British Columbia and the Yukon British Columbia St. Michael and All Angels Cathedral Kelowna John Privett 1899
Montreal Canada Quebec Christ Church Cathedral Montreal Barry Clarke 1850
Moosonee Ontario Ontario and Quebec St. Matthew's Cathedral Timmins, ON Tom Corston 1872
New Westminster British Columbia and the Yukon British Columbia Christ Church Cathedral Vancouver Michael Ingham 1879
Niagara Ontario Ontario Christ Church Cathedral Hamilton Michael Bird 1875
Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island Canada Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island All Saints' Cathedral Halifax, NS Diocesan: Sue Moxley

Suffragan: Ron Cutler

 1787
Ontario Ontario Ontario St. George's Cathedral Kingston Michael Oulton 1862
Ottawa Ontario Ontario and Quebec Christ Church Cathedral Ottawa John Chapman 1896
Qu'Appelle Rupert's Land Saskatchewan St. Paul's Cathedral Regina sede vacante 1884
Quebec Canada Quebec Cathedral of the Holy Trinity Quebec City Dennis Drainville 1793
Rupert's Land Rupert's Land Manitoba Cathedral of St. John Winnipeg Don Phillips 1849
Saskatchewan Rupert's Land Saskatchewan St. Alban's Cathedral Prince Albert Michael Hawkins

Indigenous Bishop: Adam Halkett

 1874
Saskatoon Rupert's Land Saskatchewan St. John's Cathedral Saskatoon David Irving 1933
Toronto Ontario Ontario St. James' Cathedral Toronto Diocesan: Colin Johnson

Bishop of York-Simcoe: George Elliott
Bishop of York-Credit Valley: Philip Poole
Bishop of York-Scarborough: Patrick Yu
Bishop of Trent-Durham: Linda Nicholls

 1839
Western Newfoundland Canada Newfoundland and Labrador Cathedral of St. John the Evangelist Corner Brook Percy Coffin 1976
Yukon British Columbia and the Yukon Yukon Christ Church Cathedral Whitehorse Larry Robertson 1891

Senior archbishops [edit]

The four metropolitans (who all bear the style of The Most Reverend) are:

The Primate (who has no diocese and is styled The Most Reverend) is Fred Hiltz.

See also [edit]


Notes [edit]

  1. ^ The Anglican Parishes of the Central Interior encompasses the area formerly known as the Anglican Diocese of Cariboo (founded 1839), which was rendered insolvent by legal claims arising from abuse that occurred in Church-administered First Nations residential schools, and ceased to operate on December 31, 2001. The parishes are currently the pastoral responsibility of the Metropolitan of the ecclesiastical province, and are overseen by a suffragan bishop to the Metropolitan.
  2. ^ The old Diocese of Newfoundland was founded in 1839. The Diocese of Eastern Newfoundland and Labrador came into being upon that diocese's 1976 split.
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