The Diocese of Kootenay is a
diocese
In 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 provinces were administratively associa ...
of the
Ecclesiastical Province of British Columbia and the Yukon
The Ecclesiastical Province of British Columbia and Yukon is one of four ecclesiastical provinces in the Anglican Church of Canada. It was founded in 1914 as the Ecclesiastical Province of British Columbia, but changed its name in 1943 when the D ...
of the
Anglican Church of Canada.
The diocese was created by a decision of the Synod of the
Diocese of New Westminster in November 1899 to divide that diocese into two along the 120 degrees line of longitude. The new Diocese of Kootenay would comprise the area of the original diocese eastward of that line to the Alberta border. In 1900 the Synod of the new Diocese met in Nelson and selected St. Saviour's Church there as its cathedral. After being provisionally administered by New Westminster for several years, the Diocese of Kootenay got its first bishop, Alexander Doull, in 1914.
In 1987 the cathedral was re-established at its present location at St. Michael and All Angels' Church in the City of Kelowna, where the bishops had actually lived since 1955.
Bishops of Kootenay
Deans of Kootenay
Since 1987, the Dean of Kootenay has also been the incumbent at St Michael and All Angel's Cathedral, Kelowna.
*1945–1948:
Patrick Clark (Bishop of Kootenay, 1948)
*1948–1956: Thomas L. Leadbeater
*1957–1963: G.W. Lang
*1973–1980: Alan Jackson
*1987–2000: Jack Greenhalgh
*2001–2009: Allan R. Reed
[
*2009–2020: Nissa Basbaum ][
*2021–present: David Tiessen
]
References
External links
Diocese of Kootenay website
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Kootenay, Anglican Diocese of
Anglican Province of British Columbia and Yukon