List of dioceses of the Anglican Church of Canada

The Anglican Church of Canada, a member church of the worldwide Anglican Communion, contains twenty nine dioceses and one non-diocesan administrative region organised into four ecclesiastical provinces.

Most dioceses are contiguous with a single civil province or territory. The five exceptions are the Arctic, Keewatin, Moosonee, Ottawa, and Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island dioceses.

Each diocese has a bishop, four of whom are archbishops as metropolitans of their ecclesiastical province. Dioceses are self-governing entities, incorporated under the Corporations Act of the civil province or territory in which they are active. Diocesan synods generally meet annually and have responsibility for all aspects of church life, except that which concerns doctrine, discipline, or worship. These matters are the purview of the General Synod of the national church, which meets triennially and at other times delegates its powers to an elected body of clergy and laity called the Council of General Synod and to the Primate of the Anglican Church of Canada.

Dioceses and bishops

Diocese	Province	Territory	Cathedral	See City	Bishop(s)	Founded
Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island	Canada	Nova Scotia Prince Edward Island	All Saints' Cathedral St. Peter's Cathedral	Halifax Charlottetown	Ron Cutler	11 August 1787 (Nova Scotia),[1] covering all British North America (the first Church of England diocese outside England)
Quebec	Canada	Quebec	Cathedral of the Holy Trinity	Quebec City	Dennis Drainville	28 June 1793,[2] from Nova Scotia diocese
Eastern Newfoundland and Labrador	Canada	Newfoundland and Labrador	Cathedral Church of St. John the Baptist	St. John's	Cyrus Pitman	1839 (Newfoundland), from Nova Scotia diocese[3][N 1]
Toronto	Ontario	Ontario	St. James' Cathedral	Toronto	Diocesan: Colin Johnson Bishop of York-Credit Valley: Philip Poole Bishop of York-Scarborough: Patrick Yu Bishop of Trent-Durham: Linda Nicholls Bishop of York-Simcoe: Peter Fenty	1839 (aka Upper Canada), from Quebec diocese[3]
Fredericton	Canada	New Brunswick	Christ Church Cathedral	Fredericton	Claude Miller	1845 (aka New Brunswick), from Nova Scotia diocese[3]
Rupert's Land	Rupert's Land	Manitoba and Ontario	Cathedral of St. John	Winnipeg	Donald Phillips	1849 (originally covering all of what is now the ecclesiastical province), probably from Quebec diocese[5]
Montreal	Canada	Quebec	Christ Church Cathedral	Montreal	Mary Irwin-Gibson	1850, from Quebec diocese[6]
Huron	Ontario	Ontario	St. Paul's Cathedral	London	Bob Bennett	1857, from Toronto diocese[3]
British Columbia	British Columbia and Yukon	British Columbia	Christ Church Cathedral	Victoria	Logan McMenamie	1859,[7] from Rupert's Land diocese
Ontario	Ontario	Ontario	St. George's Cathedral	Kingston	Michael Oulton	1862, from Toronto diocese[8]
Moosonee	Ontario	Ontario and Quebec	St. Matthew's Cathedral	Timmins, ON	Tom Corston	1872, from Rupert's Land diocese[9]
Algoma	Ontario	Ontario	St. Luke's Cathedral	Sault Ste. Marie	Stephen Andrews	1873, from Toronto diocese (missionary diocese); 1906 (independence)[10]
Athabasca	Rupert's Land	Alberta	St. James' Cathedral	Peace River	Fraser Lawton	1874, from Rupert's Land diocese[9]
Saskatchewan	Rupert's Land	Saskatchewan	St. Alban's Cathedral	Prince Albert	Michael Hawkins Indigenous Bishop: Adam Halkett	1874, from Rupert's Land diocese[9]
Niagara	Ontario	Ontario	Christ Church Cathedral	Hamilton	Michael Bird	1875, from Toronto diocese[8]
Caledonia	British Columbia and Yukon	British Columbia	St. Andrew's Cathedral	Prince Rupert	William Anderson	1879, from BC diocese[11]
New Westminster	British Columbia and Yukon	British Columbia	Christ Church Cathedral	Vancouver	Melissa Skelton	1879, from BC diocese[12]
Mackenzie River	Rupert's Land[13]	Northwest Territories	St Paul's Pro-Cathedral	Fort Chipewyan	Lapsed in 1933 (territory split between the Yukon and Arctic dioceses)[13]	1883, from Athabasca diocese[14]
Qu'Appelle	Rupert's Land	Saskatchewan	St. Paul's Cathedral	Regina	Robert Hardwick	1884 (as Assiniboia), from Rupert's Land and Saskatchewan dioceses;[15] name changed later in 1884[16]
Calgary	Rupert's Land	Alberta	Cathedral Church of the Redeemer	Calgary	Greg Kerr-Wilson	1888, from Saskatchewan diocese[17]
Yukon	British Columbia and Yukon	Yukon	Christ Church Cathedral	Whitehorse	Larry Robertson	1891 (as Selkirk; from Mackenzie River)
Ottawa	Ontario	Ontario and Quebec	Christ Church Cathedral	Ottawa	John Chapman	7 April 1896, from Ontario diocese[18]
Kootenay	British Columbia and Yukon	British Columbia	St. Michael and All Angels Cathedral	Kelowna	John Privett	1899, from New Westminster diocese[19]
Keewatin	Rupert's Land	Ontario and Manitoba	St. Alban's Cathedral (former)	Kenora, ON	Lapsed in 2015 (territory split between the Moosonee and Mishamikoweesh dioceses)	1902, from Rupert's Land diocese[20]
Brandon	Rupert's Land	Manitoba	St. Matthew's Cathedral	Brandon	William Cliff	1913, from Rupert's Land diocese[21]
Edmonton	Rupert's Land	Alberta	All Saints' Cathedral	Edmonton	Jane Alexander	1913, from Calgary diocese[22]
Cariboo	British Columbia and Yukon	British Columbia	St. Paul's Cathedral	Kamloops	Closed December 31, 2001	1914, from New Westminster diocese[23]
Arctic	Rupert's Land	Northwest Territories and Nunavut	St. Jude's Cathedral	Iqaluit, NU	Diocesan: David Parsons Suffragan: Darren McCartney	1933, from Mackenzie River diocese and parts of Moosonee and Keewatin dioceses[24]
Saskatoon	Rupert's Land	Saskatchewan	St. John's Cathedral	Saskatoon	David Irving	1933, from Saskatchewan diocese[17]
Central Newfoundland	Canada	Newfoundland and Labrador	St. Martin's Cathedral	Gander	David Torraville	1976, from Newfoundland diocese[4]
Western Newfoundland	Canada	Newfoundland and Labrador	Cathedral of St. John the Evangelist	Corner Brook	Percy Coffin	1976, from Newfoundland diocese[4]
Indigenous Spiritual Ministry of Mishamikoweesh	Rupert's Land	Ontario and Manitoba	none designated	Kingfisher Lake	Lydia Mamakwa	2014, from Keewatin diocese
Anglican Parishes of the Central Interior	British Columbia and Yukon	British Columbia	St. Paul's Cathedral	Kamloops	Suffragan to the Metropolitan: Barbara Andrews	2015 ("recognized territory" status)[N 2] 2002 (closure of Cariboo diocese)[N 3]
Anglican Military Ordinariate of Canada	NA	Extra-Territorial	Christ Church Cathedral	Ottawa	Peter Coffin	1939[26]

Archbishops

The four metropolitans (who all bear the style of The Most Reverend) are:

• Canada: Percy Coffin, Archbishop of Western Newfoundland
• Rupert's Land: Greg Kerr-Wilson, Archbishop of Calgary
• Ontario: Colin Johnson, Archbishop of Toronto
• British Columbia and Yukon: John Privett, Archbishop of Kootenay

The Primate (who has no diocese and is styled The Most Reverend) is Fred Hiltz.

See also

• List of Anglican dioceses (worldwide)

Notes

1. The old Diocese of Newfoundland was founded in 1839. The Diocese of Eastern Newfoundland and Labrador came into being upon that diocese's 1976 split.^[4]
2. On November 14, 2015, the Council of the Anglican Church of Canada's General Synod gave final approval to recognition of the APCI as a "recognized territory [with] the status of a diocese" (but not called one) and the former territory of the former Cariboo diocese.^[25]
3. The Anglican Parishes of the Central Interior encompasses the area formerly known as the Anglican Diocese of Cariboo, which was rendered insolvent by legal claims arising from abuse that occurred in Church-administered First Nations residential schools, and ceased to operate on December 31, 2001. The parishes are currently the pastoral responsibility of the Metropolitan of the ecclesiastical province, and are overseen by a suffragan bishop to the Metropolitan.

References

1. The London Gazette: no. 12910. p. 373. 7 August 1787. Retrieved 3 July 2013.
2. Literary & Historical Society of Quebec – The English Cathedral of Quebec (Accessed 3 July 2013)
3. Responsible Government in the Dominions, Part VII: The Church in the Dominions, pp. 1424–1425 (Google Book; accessed 3 July 2013)
4. Peddle, G. The Anglican Church in Newfoundland: An Exceptional Case? p. 28 (Accessed 7 July 2013)
5. Diocese of Rupert's Land – History (Accessed 3 July 2013)
6. Borthwick, Douglas: History of the Diocese of Montreal, 1850–1910 p. 5 (Internet Archive; accessed 3 July 2013)
7. Anglican Diocese of British Columbia – Diocesan Archives (Accessed 4 July 2013)
8. Diocese of Niagara – About Us (Accessed 5 July 2013)
9. MacDonald, Wilma – Anglican Archives in Rupert's Land (pp. 246–247; accessed 3 July 2013)
10. Ontario's Anglican Cathedrals – Diocese of Algoma (Accessed 5 July 2013)
11. MemoryBC: The British Columbia Archival Information Network – Anglican Church of Canada. Diocese of Caledonia. Synod (Accessed 5 July 2013)
12. MemoryBC: The British Columbia Archival Information Network – Fonds - Synod of the Diocese of New Westminster fonds (Accessed 5 July 2013)
13. Anglican Church of Canada – Metropolitans of the Ecclesiastical Province of Rupert's Land
14. Diocese of Athabasca – History (Accessed 5 July 2013)
15. Anglican History – An Historical Sketch of the Diocese of Saskatchewan of the Anglican Church of Canada (Accessed 5 July 2013)
16. Diocese of Qu'Appelle – How the Diocese Got its Name (Accessed 5 July 2013)
17. Diocese of Saskatchewan – History (Accessed 5 July 2013)
18. Anglican Diocese of Ottawa – History (Accessed 7 July 2013)
19. MemoryBC: The British Columbia Archival Information Network – Fonds - Synod of the Diocese of Kootenay fonds (Accessed 7 July 2013)
20. Council of the North Prayer Circle (Accessed 7 July 2013).
21. The Synod of the Diocese of Brandon Incorporation Act (Accessed 7 July 2013)
22. Anglican Diocese of Edmonton – Centennial Celebration Year (Accessed 7 July 2013)
23. Diocese of New Westminster – Residential Schools (Accessed 7 July 2013)
24. Archives Canada – Anglican Church of Canada. Diocese of the Arctic fonds (Accessed 7 July 2013)
25. Anglican Church of Canada — Highlights from the Council of General Synod: November 14, 2015 (Accessed 16 November 2015)
26. (Accessed 5 February 2016)