Ecclesiastical Province of Rupert's Land
The Ecclesiastical Province of Rupert's Land was founded in 1875 and is 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 portion of the former Hudson's Bay Company concession of Rupert's Land, as well as the North-Western Territory of British North America. It today consists of the present day provinces of Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba, as well as the extreme western portion of Ontario and the Nunavik area of Quebec. It also includes all of the territories of Nunavut and the Northwest Territories.
At almost 6.5 million square kilometres, it is the largest ecclesiastical province by area in the country, and was even larger when it was created. The Anglican Diocese of Moosonee was joined to the Ecclesiastical Province of Ontario in 1912. The five dioceses in British Columbia were also originally part of Rupert's Land Ecclesiastical Province, until they became an Ecclesiastical Province of their own in 1914. Furthermore, the Diocese of Selkirk was part of Rupert's Land until it joined the British Columbia province in 1943, as the Anglican Diocese of Yukon.
Dioceses
There are presently 11 dioceses in the province:
- Athabasca (Alberta)
- Arctic (Northwest Territories, Nunavut, and Nunavik (northern Quebec))
- Brandon (Manitoba)
- Calgary (Alberta)
- Edmonton (Alberta)
- Keewatin (Manitoba and northwestern Ontario βto close at end of 2014)
- Mishamikoweesh (northern Manitoba and northwestern Ontario)
- Qu'Appelle (Saskatchewan)
- Rupert's Land (Manitoba)
- Saskatchewan (Saskatchewan)
- Saskatoon (Saskatchewan)
Metropolitan
The provinces of the Anglican Church of Canada are headed by metropolitan bishops, elected from among the provinces' diocesan bishops, who then become archbishops of their own diocese and the metropolitan of their province.
The current metropolitan of the Province of Rupert's Land is the Most Rev. Gregory Kerr-Wilson who is the Archbishop of Calgary.
Metropolitans of Rupert's Land
Source: [1]
Order | Name | Dates | Diocese | Notes |
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1st | Robert Machray | 1875β1904 | Rupert's Land | Primate of All Canada, 1893-1904 |
2nd | Samuel Matheson | 1905β1931 | Rupert's Land | Primate of All Canada, 1909-1931 |
3rd | Isaac Stringer | 1931β1934 | Rupert's Land | |
4th | Malcolm Harding | 1935β1942 | Rupert's Land | |
5th | Louis Sherman | 1943β1953 | Rupert's Land | |
6th | Walter Barfoot | 1954β1960 | Rupert's Land | Primate of All Canada, 1950-1959 |
7th | Howard Clark | 1961β1969 | Rupert's Land | Primate of All Canada, 1959-1971 |
8th | Fredric Jackson | 1970β1977 | Qu'Appelle | |
9th | Frederick Crabb | 1977β1982 | Athabasca | |
10th | Michael Peers | 1982β1986 | Qu'Appelle | Primate of the Anglican Church of Canada, 1986 β 2004 |
11th | Kent Clarke | 1986β1987 | Edmonton | |
12th | Walter H. Jones | 1988β1993 | Rupert's Land | |
13th | Barry Curtis | 1994β1999 | Calgary | |
14th | Tom Morgan | 2000β2003 | Saskatoon | |
15th | John Clarke | 2003β2008 | Athabasca | |
16th | David Ashdown | 2009β2014 | Keewatin | |
17th | Gregory Kerr-Wilson | 2015- | Calgary | |
See also
- Ecclesiastical provinces of the Anglican Church of Canada
- List of dioceses of the Anglican Church of Canada
References
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