Anglican Church of Canada elects its first female archbishop

Anglican News ^ | 15 May 2018 | AN

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The Bishop of New Westminster, Melissa Skelton, has been elected as Archbishop and Metropolitan of the Ecclesiastical Province of British Columbia and Yukon. She will continue in her role as Bishop of New Westminster while taking on responsibility for the internal province. She is the first woman to be elected an Archbishop in the Anglican Church of Canada and only the second within the Anglican Communion. Earlier this year Bishop Kay Goldsworthy was elected as Archbishop of Perth in the Anglican Church of Australia. Archbishops Melissa and Kay are responsible for internal provinces, and so are not primates.

There has been a female primate in the Anglican Communion: Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori became the first – and so far only – female Primate when she was elected as Presiding Bishop of the US-based Episcopal Church in 2006, a role she held until her her term expired in 2015.

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The Anglican Church of Canada saw a decrease in attendance, worshippers, adherents and alms-givers by 66% between 2001 and 2010. it's probably decreasing at the rate of 7% per year with a potential cliff-drop when the older generation who can't bear to leave, finally pass away..

[Jimmy Valentine]

Imho, people aren’t falling away from religious beliefs but are leaving a decaying and increasingly irrelevant corporate entity. I for one am not interested in being scolded by a person of questionable actions and character. Better to speak with God directly.

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The rot expands.

[Fred Hayek]

Ichabod