The Diocese of Saskatchewan 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 ...

formed in 1874. Its headquarters are in

Prince Albert, Saskatchewan Prince Albert is the third-largest city in Saskatchewan, Canada, after Saskatoon and Regina. It is situated near the centre of the province on the banks of the North Saskatchewan River. The city is known as the "Gateway to the North" because ...

. The Diocese of Saskatoon was split off from it in 1933. The diocese encompasses the northern two-thirds 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 ...

and has 35 parishes and 68 congregations. About 23,000 people are identified as Anglican though attendance is much less. There are 28 active and 15 retired clergy and 110

lay reader In Anglicanism, a licensed lay minister (LLM) or lay reader (in some jurisdictions simply reader) is a person authorised by a bishop to lead certain services of worship (or parts of the service), to preach and to carry out pastoral and teaching f ...

s. Half of the active clergy are non-stipendiary.

Bishops

*1874

John McLean John McLean (March 11, 1785 – April 4, 1861) was an American jurist and politician who served in the United States Congress, as U.S. Postmaster General, and as a justice of the Ohio and U.S. Supreme Courts. He was often discussed for ...

*1887

Cyprian Pinkham William Cyprian Pinkham (1844–1928) was the second Anglican Bishop of Saskatchewan. He then became the first Bishop of Calgary when the diocese was divided in 1903. Pinkham was born in St. John's, Newfoundland and educated at St Augustine's C ...

(1st Bishop of Calgary, 1903) *1903

Jervois Newnham Jervois Arthur Newnham was an Anglican bishop in Canada from 1893 to 1921. Born into an ecclesiastical family in 1852, he was educated at McGill University and began his ordained ministry as a curate at Christ Church Cathedral, Montreal after whi ...

*1922 George Lloyd *1931 William Hallam (became Bishop of Saskatoon when the diocese was split) *1933 Walter Burd *1939 Henry Martin *1960 Bill Crump *1970

Vicars Short Hedley Vicars Roycraft Short was an Anglican bishop in the last third of the 20th century. He was educated at the University of Toronto and ordained in 1944. He held curacies at St Michael's Toronto and then Coventry Cathedral. Returning to Canad ...

*1985 Tom Morgan (afterwards Bishop of Saskatoon, 1993) *1993

Tony Burton Anthony Mabron Burton (March 23, 1937 – February 25, 2016) was an American actor and boxer. He was known for his role as Tony "Duke" Evers in the ''Rocky'' films. Early life Burton was born in Flint, Michigan. He had a younger sister named ...

*2009 Michael Hawkins

Suffragan Bishops

*1989 - 2008

Charles Arthurson Charles Arthurson was the first aboriginal bishop in Canada. He was born in 1937 in Norway House, Manitoba and ordained in 1972 in the Diocese of Keewatin. He has served in the parishes of Shamattawa (1966–70) as catechist; Norway House, Manito ...

Deans of Saskatchewan

The Dean of Saskatchewan is also Rector of St Alban's Cathedral. *?–1963: R. Leslie Taylor *1963–1970:

(Bishop of Saskatchewan, 1970) *1971–?: John H. McMulkin *1984–1990:

Bruce Stavert Bruce Stavert is an Anglican prelate and the former Bishop of Quebec and Metropolitan of Canada. He served as bishop of Quebec from 1990 to 2004; and archbishop until 2009. Born on 1 April 1940, he was educated at Trinity College in Toronto. He ...

(afterwards Bishop of Quebec, 1991) *1991–1993:

(Bishop of Saskatchewan, 1993) *1994–2001: Stephen Andrews (later

Bishop of Algoma The Diocese of Algoma is a diocese of the Ecclesiastical Province of Ontario of the Anglican Church of Canada. It comprises nearly 182,000 square kilometres of the Ontario districts of Algoma (from which it takes its name), Thunder Bay, Sudbury ...

, 2008) *2001–2009: Michael Hawkins (Bishop of Saskatchewan, 2009) *2010–present: Kenneth Davis

References

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* * Religious organizations established in 1874 Saskatchewan, Anglican Diocese of Anglican dioceses established in the 19th century Christianity in Saskatchewan Prince Albert, Saskatchewan 1874 establishments in Canada Anglican Province of Rupert's Land {{Christian-org-stub