The Diocese of Saskatoon is a

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, pro ...

of the

Ecclesiastical Province of Rupert's Land The Ecclesiastical Province of Rupert's Land, founded in 1875, forms one of four ecclesiastical provinces in the Anglican Church of Canada. Territorial evolution The territory covered by the province is roughly coterminous with the western por ...

of the

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 co ...

. Its territory is a band across the middle of the province of

Saskatchewan Saskatchewan ( ; ) is a Provinces and territories of Canada, province in Western Canada, western Canada, bordered on the west by Alberta, on the north by the Northwest Territories, on the east by Manitoba, to the northeast by Nunavut, and on t ...

.Map showing diocese location
It was separated from the

Anglican Diocese of Saskatchewan The Diocese of Saskatchewan is a diocese of the Ecclesiastical Province of Rupert's Land of the Anglican Church of Canada formed in 1874. Its headquarters are in Prince Albert, Saskatchewan. The Diocese of Saskatoon was split off from it in 1 ...

in 1933. The motto of the diocese is ''

Sursum Corda The ''Sursum corda'' (Latin: "Lift up your hearts" or literally, "Upwards hearts") is the opening dialogue to the Preface of the Eucharistic Prayer or Anaphora in Christian liturgies, dating back at least to the third century and the Anaphor ...

- Lift up your hearts'', a phrase from the service of

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. The cathedral church i
St.John the Evangelist
built in 1912. Like many main line churches, the diocese continues to close parishes and churches, both rural and urban, and is serving an aging population. Many rural parishes are multi-point charges.

Bishops of Saskatoon

Previous bishops were bishops of

, Bishop Hallam continued after 1933 as bishop of Saskatoon. *1931 William Hallam (Bishop of Saskatchewan until 1933 diocesan split) *1949 Wilfred Fuller *1950

Stanley Steer Stanley Charles Steer (2 June 1900 – 10 December 1997) was an Anglican bishop. He was born in Farnham and educated at the Royal Grammar School, Guildford and the University of Saskatchewan. He was successively *Missionary at Vanderhoof, Bri ...

*1970 Douglas Ford *1981

Roland Wood Roland Arthur Wood (1 January 1933 – 17 September 2002) was an Anglican bishop. He was educated at Bishop's University, Lennoxville, and ordained in 1958.'' Crockford's Clerical Directory 1975-76'' London: Oxford University Press, 1976 He beg ...

*1993 Tom Morgan (also Metropolitan of Rupert's Land, 2000–2003) *2004

Rod Andrews The Rt. Rev Rodney Osborne Andrews is a retired Anglican bishop. Born on 11 November 1940, educated at the University of Saskatchewan and ordained in 1965 he was involved in parish work and native ministry within the Diocese of Calgar ...

*2010

David Irving David John Cawdell Irving (born 24 March 1938) is an English author and Holocaust denier who has written on the military and political history of World War II, with a focus on Nazi Germany. His works include ''The Destruction of Dresden'' (19 ...

*2018 Chris Harper

Deans of Saskatoon

The Dean of Saskatoon is also Rector of St John's Cathedral. Source

*1943–1949: William Fuller (bishop), William Eastland Fuller (Bishop of Saskatoon, 1949) *1950–1955: Norman Douglas Larmouth *1956–1962: Shirley Arthur Ralph Wood *1962–1965: Elwood Harold Patterson *1966–1970: Douglas Albert Ford (Bishop of Saskatoon, 1970) *1971–1981:

(Bishop of Saskatoon, 1981) *1982–1991: Robert J. Blackwell *1993–2000: John Allan Kirk *2001–2006: Susan Marie Charbonneau *2006–2011: Terry R. Wiebe *2012–2022: G. Scott Pittendrigh

References

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