Sue Careless is senior editor of The Anglican Planet and author of the series Discovering the Book of Common Prayer: A Hands-On Approach. She is based in Toronto.
Church lawyers are negotiating to leave an unauthorized $8 million lease for its Toronto headquarters, and its 2026 budget is 6 percent smaller as decline continues.
Governance of the top-heavy but financially depleted Anglican Church of Canada has become a priority because the church is one-quarter of its former size and shrinking.
“We must focus on addressing the urgent need for major changes in our national structure, operations, and culture,” said Shane Parker, who led a restructuring of the Diocese of Ottawa.
Alexander Pryor, an organ scholar who likes to hunt grouse and ptarmigan, study systematic theology, and fish has been consecrated as the seventh Bishop of the Arctic.
Thirty-nine of 158 delegates to the electoral synod wrote to diocesan council expressing concern about “external pressures” imposed by diocesan authorities.
