Justin Welby, the current Bishop of Durham, was named Friday as the 105th archbishop of Canterbury, primate of the Church of England, and leader of the worldwide 77 million-member Anglican Communion. Welby was an oil executive for 11 years before leaving to train as a priest in 1987. Since then, many have described his rise […]
Historic Anglican congregation moves over differences in belief
VANCOUVER, BC – St. John’s Vancouver Anglican Church, the largest Anglican congregation in Canada, will move from its present historic location on Granville Street and Nanton Avenue, as a result of an on-going world-wide upheaval in the Anglican Communion, the 80 million member Christian Protestant denomination formed 500 years ago under King Henry VIII of […]
Anglicans face off over scripture and property
The gap between the two sides in the conflict within the Anglican Church of Canada (ACC) just become much wider. At their annual vestry meeting February 13, members of the congregation of St. John’s Shaughnessy Church in Vancouver voted overwhelmingly to leave the ACC. By February 24, a number of other B.C. churches, as well […]
Anglican Church in “full-blown schism”
The Anglican Church of Canada is in “full-blown schism,” said Michael Ingham, controversial Bishop of New Westminster, to the Anglican Journal this week. Ingham was responding to the November 15 resignation of Donald Harvey, retired Bishop of Eastern Newfoundland and Labrador, from the Anglican Church of Canada (ACC). Harvey has been accepted as a bishop with the Southern Cone province of […]