The new community, to be called St. Brigid’s Community, will consist of volunteers aged 18 to 35. Bell and Canon Ian Mobsby, the diocese of Niagara’s community missioner, have recruited members to St. Brigid’s through a series of focus groups held in the diocese. Bell says she hopes for about 30 people to start.
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In June 2025, General Synod elected then-bishop of Ottawa, Shane Parker, as primate of the Anglican Church of Canada. One year into a triennium of significant change, the Anglican Journal sat down with Archbishop Parker to discuss the church’s progress so far and his experience leading it as primate.
Alongside Hope, the Anglican Church of Canada’s relief and development agency, is working with the Episcopal Church of Cuba and other partners to alleviate the current humanitarian crisis.
Holding more than 4 million records including statements from survivors, the NCTR is the world’s largest collection of materials on the history and impact of Canada’s residential school system.
Task force chair Paige Keller, a youth member of CoGS from the ecclesiastical province of Ontario, said she and the task force “hope that this work reflects an ongoing commitment to creating space for young people to participate more fully in the life, leadership and discernment of our church.”
