Charles Frederick Masters (born 1951) is a Canadian bishop. He served from 2014 to 2022 as moderator bishop of the Anglican Network in Canada within the Anglican Church in North America. He was reared at

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, and

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, in a devout Anglican family. He graduated from the University of Guelph in 1972, where he found his religious calling. After his graduation, he worked for a Christian camp ministry, the Navigators, at the University of British Columbia in

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. Masters moved to

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with his wife in 1975 to study for ordained ministry at St John's College in

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. He was ordained an Anglican deacon in 1978 and a priest in 1979 in the

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. He served afterwards as the rector of St. George's Lowville, in the

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, until June 1, 2008. Concerned about the theological liberalism of the Anglican Church of Canada, Masters and his congregation joined the Anglican Network in Canada (ANiC) in February 2008. In June 2008, he became archdeacon and national director in ANiC, which was a founding body of the Anglican Church in North America one year later. He attended the

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, also in June 2008. Masters was consecrated Area Bishop for Ontario and East Canada at St. Catherine's Church, Ontario, on November 13, 2009, alongside Trevor Walters and

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. He was elected at the ANiC synod, held at St. Peter & St. Paul's Anglican Church, in

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, on November 14, 2012 as a co-adjutor bishop to succeed Don Harvey as the moderator bishop on Harvey's retirement in 2014. Masters enthronement took place at St. Peter & St. Paul's Anglican Church in Ottawa at the ANiC annual synod on November 6, 2014, by Archbishop

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.OTTAWA, ONT: Anglican Network in Canada Installs New Diocesan Bishop, Virtue Online, November 6, 2014
/ref> Masters is the founding chancellor of Packer College, ANiC's official diocesan seminary, located at the

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in St. John's. Masters retired as diocesan bishop of ANiC in November 2022 and was succeeded by co-adjutor bishop Dan Gifford. Masters is married and has two adult children.

References

External links

Biography on the Anglican Network in Canada official website
{{DEFAULTSORT:Masters, Charlie 1951 births Living people Canadian bishops of the Anglican Church in North America Alumni of St John's College, Nottingham Anglican realignment people