Anglican Journal

06/17/2026

The Council of General Synod (CoGS) has approved the terms of reference for the Anglican Church of Canada’s new National Youth Council (NYC), designed to provide a mechanism for youth to participate meaningfully in church governance, discernment and mission.

Task force chair Paige Keller, a youth member of CoGS from the ecclesiastical province of Ontario, said she and the task force “hope that this work reflects an ongoing commitment to creating space for young people to participate more fully in the life, leadership and discernment of our church.”

06/14/2026

This is not a business-as-usual triennium, Archbishop Shane Parker told the Council of the General Synod in his opening remarks on Friday, adding that church leadership and staff have made progress on the “unambiguous mandate” set by General Synod for a leaner, less expensive national structure.

Church leadership and staff have been hard at work on the “unambiguous mandate” set by General Synod for a leaner, less expensive national structure, Parker said.

06/11/2026

Archbishop Fred Hiltz, former primate of the Anglican Church of Canada, has made the first of a series of pastoral visits to the diocese of Western Newfoundland to facilitate discussion and reconciliation.

The diocesan executive council has invited Hiltz to facilitate discussion and reconciliation as a pastoral visitor following a cancelled election for a new bishop, originally scheduled for April 25.

06/10/2026

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06/09/2026

In advance of the National Indigenous Day of Prayer on June 21, Archbishop Chris Harper, Presiding Elder of Sacred Circle, calls on us to pray unceasingly, strengthen our relationships and lift up God in all we say and do.

FEATHER: Creator God, today we, the children of your creation, come before you with open hearts. Hear our prayer. Lift from us the clouds of confusion and despair, especially in these days of conflict. Humble us to see your peace and light, that we might walk with strength, seeking only your will.

06/05/2026

Bishop Chris Williams, who died on May 16, is remembered by Anglicans in the Arctic and elsewhere in the North for his leadership in raising up Indigenous clergy and supporting the incorporation of Indigenous cultural traditions into worship.

Long before he became Anglican diocesan bishop of the Arctic, Chris Williams—who died on May 16, six days before his 90th birthday—could make a strong first impression.

06/03/2026

The Journal spoke to Anglican priest and author Canon Martha Tatarnic about Anne Boleyn’s formative impact on the Anglican tradition, stereotypes that misrepresent the late queen and how Tatarnic’s new book seeks to re-affirm Boleyn as a founding figure of the Anglican Church.

Queen of England from 1533 until her husband King Henry VIII executed her in 1536, Anne Boleyn was a central political figure in the English Reformation that marked the birth of Anglicanism.

05/27/2026

In his latest column, Primate Shane Parker reflects on the ongoing journey of reconciliation and building of a new relationship between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Anglican churches.

My first official visit as primate was to the gathering of Sacred Circle in Calgary last summer. During our time together, we recalled the story of how, 32 years ago, leaders of the Indigenous Anglican Church received a very clear vision that they rendered into a document called The Covenant—a gif...

05/26/2026

Archbishop Douglas Hambidge, who died on March 2, was a champion of Indigenous rights and participation in the church, and a sought-after speaker on church stewardship.

Hambidge was bishop of the diocese of New Westminster and metropolitan of the ecclesiastical province of British Columbia and Yukon.

05/20/2026

A time capsule inside a cornerstone laid in 1953, which disappeared from the Anglican Church of Canada’s national office more than two decades ago, has finally been recovered.