Andrew Ignatieff, executive director of the Primate's World Relief and Development Fund, the Anglican Church of Canada's disaster relief and economic development agency, was named to the executive committee of the board of...
Category: April 2004, Appointments
On Monday, March 1, people around the world celebrated the fifth anniversary of the Ottawa Convention banning anti-personnel landmines becoming international law. To mark the milestone, churches across Canada rang their bells for...
Category: April 2004, Canada
A new joint Anglican and Lutheran parish, to be known as Trinity church, has been formed in Port Alberni, B.C. The new church came about when two churches – All Saints Anglican and St. Alban/Christ the King (an existing...
Category: April 2004, Canada
The diocese of Fredericton has decided to tear down St. Anne's church in the parish of Musquash, but not everyone is happy about it. Midge Thompson, chair of the St. Anne's preservation committee, has asked the diocese to...
Category: April 2004, Canada
When it finally came, it seemed anti-climactic. There, in typically bureaucratic, church-style vernacular, was the resolution that could change the face of the Anglican Church of Canada. To be sure, the language of the...
Category: April 2004, Editorial
Dear editor, Your coverage of the primacy of Archbishop Michael Peers (February) was well done and particularly your inclusion of his wife, Dorothy, and his family. Too often families are overlooked in such tributes. I...
Category: April 2004, Letters
Dear editor, May I commend you on the encouraging article on Canon Michael Patterson's appointment as evangelism director in the diocese of Niagara (Evangelism not so scary after all, January). His view on evangelism...
Category: April 2004, Letters

This month, the Anglican Journal welcomes a new column entitled Concerning Lutherans, modelled after a similar column in Canada Lutheran magazine entitled Concerning Anglicans. Written by a pastor of the Evangelical Lutheran...
Category: April 2004, Concerning Lutherans
Betty Campbell Graham, the first woman elected prolocutor of General Synod, died Feb. 10 in Toronto at the age of 84. Born in Toronto, Ms. Graham studied at the University of Toronto and received an M.S.W. degree from the...
Category: April 2004, Obituaries
John Uniacke Bayly, who served as chancellor of the diocese of the Arctic from 1993 to 2000, died of a heart attack in February while dog sledding on Great Slave Lake. Mr. Bayly attended Osgoode Hall Law School; he was...
Category: April 2004, Obituaries