Moderator of the United Church of Canada

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The Moderator of the United Church of Canada is the presiding leader of the United Church of Canada, Canada's largest Protestant denomination. The church is highly decentralized and non-dogmatic and the moderator has only limited power. The moderator presides over the meeting of the court, thus the moderator is the chairperson, and is understood to be a member of the court acting primus inter pares. Sitting moderators are styled the "right reverend" if they are ordained clergy (since the election of Robert McClure, a medical doctor, in 1968, moderators have not necessarily been clergy) and the "very reverend" after their retirement, in keeping with the practice of the pre-Church Union Presbyterian Church in Canada.

Moderators are elected at the church's triannual General Councils. The current moderator is the Rt. Rev. David Giuliano.

[edit] List of United Church Moderators

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