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Diocese Of Western Newfoundland
The Anglican Diocese of Western Newfoundland is a diocese of the Ecclesiastical Province of Canada of the Anglican Church of Canada. It comprises 78 congregations grouped in 32 parishes in Newfoundland and Labrador, with approximately 24,000 souls. Most parishes are multipoint -with more than two congregations- with only one full-time clergy. As of 2012, the diocese had 20 full-time and over 350 lay ministers.http://www.province-canada.anglican.org/synod2012/Western%20Report%202012.pdf (accessed 28 April 2015) Bishops * William Legge (1976–1978; previously bishop suffragan in the Diocese of Newfoundland) *Stewart Payne (1978–1997); Metropolitan of Canada, 1990–1997 *Len Whitten (1997–2003) *Percy Coffin (2003–2018); Metropolitan of Canada, 2014–2017 *John Organ (2018–present) Parishes *Parish Of All Saints, *Parish Of Bay Of Islands, *Parish Of Bay St. George, *Parish Of Bonne Bay North, *Parish Of Bonne Bay South, *Parish Of Burgeo, *Parish Of Cow Head, *Parish ...
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Anglicanism
Anglicanism is a Western Christian tradition that has developed from the practices, liturgy, and identity of the Church of England following the English Reformation, in the context of the Protestant Reformation in Europe. It is one of the largest branches of Christianity, with around 110 million adherents worldwide . Adherents of Anglicanism are called ''Anglicans''; they are also called ''Episcopalians'' in some countries. The majority of Anglicans are members of national or regional ecclesiastical provinces of the international Anglican Communion, which forms the third-largest Christian communion in the world, after the Roman Catholic Church and the Eastern Orthodox Church. These provinces are in full communion with the See of Canterbury and thus with the Archbishop of Canterbury, whom the communion refers to as its '' primus inter pares'' (Latin, 'first among equals'). The Archbishop calls the decennial Lambeth Conference, chairs the meeting of primates, and is the pr ...
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Ecclesiastical Province Of Canada
The Ecclesiastical Province of Canada, founded in 1860, forms one of four ecclesiastical provinces in the Anglican Church of Canada. Despite modern use of the name ''Canada'', the ecclesiastical province covers only the former territory of Lower Canada (i.e., southern and eastern Quebec), the Maritimes, and Newfoundland and Labrador (The Ecclesiastical Province of Ontario split off as a separate entity in 1913.) The province comprises seven dioceses: * ''Montreal'' (within the secular Canadian province of Quebec) * ''Quebec'' (whose borders are consistent with Lower Canada outside Montreal) * ''Fredericton'' (New Brunswick) * ''Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island'' (Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island) * ''Western Newfoundland'' (Newfoundland and Labrador) * ''Central Newfoundland'' (Newfoundland and Labrador) * ''Eastern Newfoundland and Labrador'' (Newfoundland and Labrador) A Metropolitan, elected from among the province's diocesan bishops, heads each province o ...
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John Organ
John Organ is the Canadian Anglican Bishop A bishop is an ordained clergy member who is entrusted with a position of authority and oversight in a religious institution. In Christianity, bishops are normally responsible for the governance of dioceses. The role or office of bishop is ca ... of the Diocese of Western Newfoundland. He was elected to serve as bishop in June 2018. In 2019, Organ welcomed a decision of the diocesan synod to allow same-sex marriages to be solemnised in the diocese's churches, "The outcome of that was tremendous pain and suffering for LGBT folks, and for their families and friends and for their allies. It was a very difficult synod." The motion, which passed with a 94% majority, allows non-consenting clergy to opt out of solemnising same-sex weddings if this would violate their personal beliefs. References Living people 21st-century Anglican Church of Canada bishops People from Newfoundland (island) Anglican bishops of Western Newf ...
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Diocese
In Ecclesiastical polity, church governance, a diocese or bishopric is the ecclesiastical district under the jurisdiction of a bishop. History In the later organization of the Roman Empire, the increasingly subdivided Roman province, provinces were administratively associated in a larger unit, the Roman diocese, diocese (Latin ''dioecesis'', from the Greek language, Greek term διοίκησις, meaning "administration"). Christianity was given legal status in 313 with the Edict of Milan. Churches began to organize themselves into Roman diocese, dioceses based on the Roman diocese, civil dioceses, not on the larger regional imperial districts. These dioceses were often smaller than the Roman province, provinces. Christianity was declared the Empire's State church of the Roman Empire, official religion by Theodosius I in 380. Constantine the Great, Constantine I in 318 gave litigants the right to have court cases transferred from the civil courts to the bishops. This situ ...
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Anglican Church Of Canada
The Anglican Church of Canada (ACC or ACoC) is the Ecclesiastical province#Anglican Communion, province of the Anglican Communion in Canada. The official French-language name is ''l'Église anglicane du Canada''. In 2017, the Anglican Church counted 359,030 members on parish rolls in 2,206 congregations, organized into 1,571 parishes. The Canada 2011 Census, 2011 Canadian Census counted 1,631,845 self-identified Anglicans (5 percent of the total Canadian population), making the Anglican Church the third-largest Canadian church after the Catholic Church and the United Church of Canada.2011 is the most recent census to collect information on religion in Canada. Statistics Canada:"Please note that information about religion is only collected once every 10 years." The 2021 Canadian census, 2021 Canadian Census counted more than 1 million self-identified Anglicans (3.1% of the total Canadian population), remaining the third-largest Canadian church. Like other Anglican churches, the An ...
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William Legge (bishop)
William Gordon Legge (January 20, 1913 – January 13, 1999) was an Anglican priest and bishop in Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. He was the first bishop of the Diocese of Western Newfoundland, serving from 1976 to 1978. He was ordained as a priest in 1938. After a curacy at Channel he held incumbencies at Botwood and Bell Island. He was Archdeacon of Avalon from 1955 to 1968 when he became a suffragan bishop.'' Who was Who 1897-2007'', London, A & C Black A & C Black is a British book publishing company, owned since 2002 by Bloomsbury Publishing. The company is noted for publishing '' Who's Who'' since 1849. It also published popular travel guides and novels. History The firm was founded in 18 ..., 2007 References 1913 births 1999 deaths Anglican bishops of Newfoundland Anglican bishops of Western Newfoundland 20th-century Anglican Church of Canada bishops {{Canada-Anglican-bishop-stub ...
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Diocese Of Newfoundland
The Anglican Diocese of Newfoundland was, from its creation in 1839 until 1879, the Diocese of Newfoundland and Bermuda, with the Cathedral of St. John the Baptist at St. John's, Newfoundland, and a chapel-of-ease named ''Trinity Church'' in the City of Hamilton in Pembroke Parish, Bermuda (not to be confused either with the Parish church for Pembroke Parish, St. John's, or with ''Holy Trinity Church'', the parish church of Hamilton Parish). Newfoundland and Bermuda had both been parts of British North America until left out of the 1867 Confederation of Canada. In 1842, her jurisdiction was described as "Newfoundland, the Bermudas". In 1879 the Church of England in the British Overseas Territory of Bermuda (since 1978, an extra-provincial diocese of the archbishop of Canterbury re-titled the ''Anglican Church of Bermuda'') was created, but continued to be grouped with the Diocese of Newfoundland under the bishop of Newfoundland and Bermuda until 1919, when Newfoundland and Berm ...
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Stewart Payne
(Sidney) Stewart Payne was Anglican Archbishop of Newfoundland and Labrador and Metropolitan of Canada in the late 20th century. Born on 6 June 1932 and educated at the Memorial University of Newfoundland he was ordained in 1957. Crockford's Clerical Directory1975-76 Lambeth, Church House, 1975 He served at Happy Valley, Bay Roberts and St. Anthony. He was elevated to the episcopate A bishop is an ordained clergy member who is entrusted with a position of authority and oversight in a religious institution. In Christianity, bishops are normally responsible for the governance of dioceses. The role or office of bishop is ca ... in 1978. References 1932 births Memorial University of Newfoundland alumni Anglican bishops of Western Newfoundland 20th-century Anglican Church of Canada bishops 20th-century Anglican archbishops Metropolitans of Canada Living people {{Canada-Anglican-bishop-stub ...
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Len Whitten
Leonard Whitten was the Anglican Bishop of Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada from 1997 to 2004. Educated at the Memorial University of Newfoundland and ordained in 1962 he had previously served at Channel - Port aux Basques, Labrador, Gander Bay and Corner Brook Corner Brook ( 2021 population: 19,333 CA 29,762) is a city located on the west coast of the island of Newfoundland in the province of Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. Corner Brook is the fifth largest settlement in Newfoundland and Labrador. ....'' Crockford's Clerical Directory 1975-76'' London: Oxford University Press, 1976 References 1937 births Memorial University of Newfoundland alumni Anglican bishops of Western Newfoundland 21st-century Anglican Church of Canada bishops Living people {{Canada-Anglican-bishop-stub ...
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Percy Coffin
Percy David Coffin (b 1953) is the former Anglican Archbishop of the Diocese of Western Newfoundland, Canada. Coffin was born in Joe Batt's Arm and educated at the Memorial University of Newfoundland Memorial University of Newfoundland, also known as Memorial University or MUN (), is a public university in the province of Newfoundland and Labrador, based in St. John's, with satellite campuses in Corner Brook, elsewhere in Newfoundland and .... References 1953 births Anglican bishops of Western Newfoundland 21st-century Anglican Church of Canada bishops Living people People from Newfoundland (island) Memorial University of Newfoundland alumni {{Canada-Anglican-bishop-stub ...
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Ramea, Newfoundland And Labrador
Ramea is a small village in Newfoundland and Labrador located on Northwest Island, one of a group of five major islands located off the south coast of Newfoundland, Canada. The island is approximately 3.14 km long by 0.93 km wide (1.95 miles by 0.58 miles). The other major islands in the archipelago are Great (or Big) Island, Middle Island, Harbour Island, and South West Island. Ramea is inaccessible by road and is serviced by an intra-provincial ferry in Burgeo. History The community, originally settled in the early 19th century for its proximity to rich fishing grounds and safe anchorages, was once a thriving fishing village. The town of Ramea was incorporated in 1951. It was probably named for Le Ramée, a street in Saint Peter Port, the capital of Guernsey. From 1949 to 1970, businesswoman Marie Penny owned and operated John Penny & Sons, one of the largest frozen fish companies in Newfoundland during the 20th century. Since the cod moratorium of 1992, the isol ...
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Anglican Church Of Canada Dioceses
The Anglican Church of Canada, a member church of the worldwide Anglican Communion, contains thirty-two jurisdictions, consisting of twenty-nine dioceses, one administrative region with diocesan status, one ordinariate (for military chaplaincy), and one national pastoral jurisdiction (for indigenous people). The 29 dioceses and the special administrative area are organised into four ecclesiastical provinces. Most dioceses are contained within a single civil province or territory. The four exceptions are the Arctic, Moosonee, Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island, and Ottawa dioceses. Each diocese has a bishop, four of whom are archbishops 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 those aspects of church life which do not concern doctrine, discipline, or worship. ...
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