June 1, 2001 Midnight sun diocese is steeped in history

Bishop Terrence Buckle pulls up in his truck and jumps out, walks over to the camera, and stops. He grins. "Welcome to the land of the midnight sun," he says, squinting into the brightness, as he introduces a promotional video...

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May 1, 2001 Western Newfoundland: hope amid challenges

In the course of being interviewed for this profile of the diocese of Western Newfoundland, Bishop Leonard Whitten summed up the diocese in one phrase: adjusting to new challenges. In the nearly four years since Bishop...

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April 1, 2001 Canada's largest, most activist diocese

FITTINGLY for an area dominated by a cosmopolitan and multicultural city, the diocese of Toronto's Anglicans demonstrate a flare for activism and social justice. Among the many issues that concern the diocese - the Canadian...

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March 1, 2001 Saskatoon balances urban and rural tensions

SASKATOON doesn't cover a particularly large area, compared to some of its fellow dioceses, but one of Archbishop Thomas Morgan's toughest challenges has been creating a sense of unity. "In the last (federal)...

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February 1, 2001 Saskatchewan blends conservatism and tolerance

IT IS A paradox of a diocese in some ways - generous but poor, fearful but optimistic, theologically conservative but tolerant. Saskatchewan may be among the church's poorest dioceses, but its 20,000 Anglicans in scattered...

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January 1, 2001 Historic diocese's future financially 'precarious'

TALK ABOUT a move from the frying pan into the fire. Less than a year ago, Archdeacon Donald D. Phillips left the diocese of Qu'Appelle, which is financially shaky due to residential schools lawsuits, to become bishop of the...

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December 1, 2000 Quebec diocese faces 'two-headed challenge'

LEADING the Anglican church in the Diocese of Quebec is a bit like playing Chrysler to General Motors, Chicago to New York City. In Canada's 1991 census, about 5.9 million citizens of the civil province of Quebec identified...

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November 1, 2000 Qu'Appelle faces a precarious future

A 1997 PROFILE of the Diocese of Qu'Appelle sent to candidates in an episcopal election used the phrase "residential school" once. Today, the successful candidate from that election, Bishop Duncan D. Wallace, 62, finds much of...

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October 1, 2000 Ottawa bishop sees much potential for growth

THE EIGHTH bishop of Ottawa sounds almost apologetic as he concedes that life in his diocese, where he has spent much of the nearly 30 years since his ordination, is pretty good. "It sounds trite but I find it very...

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September 1, 2000 Ontario recovering from impact of sex scandal

THE FIRST bishop of the Diocese of Ontario, John Travers Lewis, didn't have an easy time of it at the beginning of his term in 1862, and neither did the 10th, Peter Ralph Mason. On May 31, 1992, Bishop Mason had to cross a...

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