The Metropolitan Community Church (MCC),also known as the Universal Fellowship of Metropolitan Community Churches (UFMCC),is an international LGBT-affirming mainline Protestant Christian denomination. There are 222 member congregations in 37 countries,and the fellowship has a specific outreach to lesbian,gay,bisexual,and transgender families and communities.
George Alexander Drew was a Canadian conservative politician who founded a Progressive Conservative dynasty in Ontario that lasted 42 years. He served as the 14th premier of Ontario from 1943 to 1948.
George Campbell Pidgeon was a Christian minister,first in the Presbyterian Church in Canada and then in the United Church of Canada,as well as the last Moderator of the Presbyterian Church before amalgamation and the first Moderator of the newly formed United Church of Canada. He was a strong proponent of the proposed union of churches and later in life championed ecumenism.
The Presbyterian Church in Canada is a Presbyterian denomination,serving in Canada under this name since 1875. The United Church of Canada claimed the right to the name from 1925 to 1939. According to the Canada 2001 Census 409,830 Canadians identify themselves as Presbyterian,that is,1.4 per cent of the population.
Southwestern Ontario is a secondary region of Southern Ontario in the Canadian province of Ontario. It occupies most of the Ontario Peninsula bounded by Lake Huron,including Georgian Bay,to the north and northwest;the St. Clair River,Lake St. Clair,and Detroit River,to the west;and Lake Erie to the south. To the east,on land,Southwestern Ontario is bounded by Central Ontario and the Golden Horseshoe. The region had a population of 2,583,544 in 2016. It is sometimes further divided into "Midwestern Ontario" covering the eastern half of the area and the heart of Southwestern Ontario encompassing the western half of the region.
The Presbyterian College/Le Collège Presbytérien,3495 University Street,Montreal,Quebec,is a Theological College of the Presbyterian Church in Canada,and is affiliated with McGill University through its School of Religious Studies. The Presbyterian College's student base comes from across Canada and around the world.
Mar Emmanuel Yosip is a Bishop of the Assyrian Church of the East,presiding over the Diocese of Canada.
Arthur Bruce Barbour Moore was an ordained minister of the United Church of Canada who served as President and Vice-Chancellor of Victoria University in the University of Toronto,Chancellor of the University of Toronto,and as the 24th Moderator of the United Church of Canada.
Baptist Theological Seminary is a Baptist seminary of the Convention of Baptist Churches of Northern Circars (CBCNC) located in Jagannaickpur,Church Square,Kakinada in East Godavari district of Andhra Pradesh,India. The seminary was affiliated to nation's first University,the Senate of Serampore College (University) in 1949.
James Sutherland Thomson was a Canadian academic and Christian minister,a president of the University of Saskatchewan,and the 17th Moderator of the United Church of Canada.
The University of Guelph is a comprehensive public research university in Guelph,Ontario,Canada. It was established in 1964 after the amalgamation of Ontario Agricultural College (1874),the MacDonald Institute (1903),and the Ontario Veterinary College (1922),and has since grown to an institution of almost 30,000 students and employs 830 full-time faculty as of fall 2019. It offers 94 undergraduate degrees,48 graduate programs,and 6 associate degrees in many different disciplines.
Athletics Canada or AC is the national governing body of athletics in Canada,which includes track and field,cross-country running,road running,and race walking.
William Hodd ("Bill") McElcheran was a Canadian designer and sculptor.
Charles Frederick Masters is a Canadian bishop. He is the current Moderator Bishop of the Anglican Network in Canada within the Anglican Church in North America.
Robert Stuart Skirving is the eighth and current bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of East Carolina. He was elected on May 17,2014 and consecrated on November 8,2014. As a part of his ministry in the wider Episcopal Church,Bishop Skirving also serves as the Chancellor of Sewanee:The University of the South.
Jordan Cantwell was the Moderator of the United Church of Canada from 2015 to 2018. She was ordained as a minister of the United Church in 2010,and was elected to the position of Moderator at the 42nd General Council of the church in Corner Brook,Newfoundland and Labrador in 2015.
Edmund H. Oliver (1882–1935) was a Canadian Presbyterian and United Church of Canada minister,chaplain and educator. He played an integral role in the founding of St. Andrew's College,Saskatoon in 1912 –then known as the Presbyterian Theological College –and served as its first president. He was elected to the position of Moderator of the United Church of Canada by the 4th General Council at their meeting in London,Ontario in 1930.
Wilbur Kenneth Howard was the first black person to be ordained as a minister in the United Church of Canada and,in 1974,became the denomination's first black moderator. He was elected Moderator after the fifth ballot during the meeting of the 26th General Council in Guelph,Ontario. To date,he is the only black person to hold this position within the United Church of Canada.
Richard Bott is the current Moderator of the United Church of Canada.
Anne Marguerite Squire née Park (1921–2017),31st Moderator of the United Church of Canada from 1986 to 1988,was the first female lay person elected to that post. Her time as Moderator was marked by controversy over the question of whether members of the LGTBQ community should be ordained.
