Joey Royal

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Joey Royal
Bishop Suffragan of the Diocese of the Arctic
Church Anglican Church of Canada
Diocese Arctic
In office2019–present
Other post(s)Rector, Holy Trinity Anglican Church, Yellowknife
Director, Arthur Turner Training School
Orders
ConsecrationMarch 31, 2019
by  Michael Hawkins

Joseph "Joey" Royal is a Canadian Anglican bishop. Since 2019, he has been one of three suffragan bishops of the Diocese of the Arctic in the Anglican Church of Canada (ACC).

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Early life and education

Royal grew up in northern Ontario in a family affiliated with the Plymouth Brethren. [1] He has Mi’kmaq ancestry on his mother's side. [2] He became Anglican during college [1] and was ordained as a priest after graduating from Providence University College and Theological Seminary near Winnipeg. [3]

Ordained ministry

Holy Trinity Anglican Church in Yellowknife. Diocese of the Arctic YK.jpg
Holy Trinity Anglican Church in Yellowknife.

Royal was rector of Holy Trinity Anglican Church in Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, until 2015, [3] when he moved to Iqaluit, Nunavut, to be director and lead instructor at the newly reopened Arthur Turner Training School, the diocesan pastoral training program of the Diocese of the Arctic. The school, which offers in-person and virtual training for diaconal candidates and lay ministers in the geographically far-flung but lightly populated Arctic region, was housed at the new St. Jude's Cathedral. [4] Courses were offered in both English and Inuktitut. The school uses curriculum resources and partnership from Trinity School for Ministry, a seminary of the Anglican Church in North America (ACNA). [5]

At the diocese's triennial synod in Yellowknife in March 2019, Royal was elected and consecrated a suffragan bishop alongside Annie Ittoshat and Lucy Netser. [3] Due to the high costs and difficulty of travel in the diocese, bishops from the Province of Rupert's Land were on hand to confirm the election and consecrate the new bishops on March 31. [6] Royal's specific responsibilities were theological education and the High Arctic and Southern Baffin Island regions. In 2023, Royal returned to Yellowknife to serve as rector of Holy Trinity. [7]

Anglican realignment

Royal, along with the Diocese of the Arctic, remained in the ACC during the Anglican realignment. However, like other Arctic bishops, Royal has opposed theologically liberal trends in the Anglican Church. As a bishop, he voted against the proposed 2019 change to the church's marriage canon that would have officially permitted same-sex marriages; the measure failed to secure the necessary majority among the church's bishops during the vote at General Synod. [8] "As a diocese we’ve been very clear that we’re opposed to changing it, and our opposition on this is due simply to our conviction that male-female marriage is divinely given and rooted in creation itself," Royal said in 2019. "That is how I understand Scripture. I am convinced as well that a change to the Marriage Canon will be destructive to community and relationships at the local, national and international level." [9]

In 2023, alongside the other Arctic bishops, Royal objected to the ACC's approval of gender transition liturgies and said they would not be authorized in the diocese. [10]

While remaining in the ACC, Royal has also showed openness to Anglican realignment churches. Due to the difficulty of finding clergy in the Arctic region, he has worked to ensure that the Diocese of the Arctic can continue to license clergy from the ACNA, which is not in communion with the ACC at the provincial level. [11] In 2023, Royal and Arctic Bishop David Parsons were the only ACC bishops to attend the Global Anglican Future Conference in Kigali. [12] Royal, who serves on the Anglican Consultative Council's Inter-Anglican Standing Committee on Unity, Faith and Order, has said he "hold[s] out hope that the Instruments of Communion can be restructured from within, and that sufficient differentiation can be possible across the Anglican world without a total and irreparable rupture happening. And if such can be avoided it will be only because of the mercy of God, and not because of human scheming or ingenuity." [12]

Personal life

Royal is married to Jennifer; they have one son. [7]

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References

  1. 1 2 Royal, Joey. "Should I become a priest?". RadVo. Retrieved 5 February 2024.
  2. ↑ Frankling, Sean (May 1, 2023). "Colonialism's legacy seen in marriage debate". Anglican Journal. Retrieved 5 February 2024.
  3. 1 2 3 Puddister, Matt (April 1, 2019). "Three suffragan bishops elected in diocese of the Arctic". Anglican Journal. Retrieved 5 February 2024.
  4. ↑ Forget, Andre (June 13, 2016). "Theological training school reopens in Iqaluit". Anglican Journal. Retrieved 5 February 2024.
  5. ↑ Hetke, Sharon Dewey (December 13, 2016). "Joey Royal". Anglican Planet. Retrieved 5 February 2024.
  6. ↑ Careless, Sue (April 17, 2019). "Three new Arctic bishops elected & consecrated". Anglican Planet. Retrieved 5 February 2024.
  7. 1 2 "Leadership". Holy Trinity Anglican Church. Retrieved 5 February 2024.
  8. ↑ Puddister, Matthew (July 15, 2019). "Church grapples with pain after marriage canon vote—with new developments possible". Anglican Journal. Retrieved 5 February 2024.
  9. ↑ Hetke, Sharon Dewey (June 10, 2019). "Voices from the Arctic". Anglican Planet. Retrieved 5 February 2024.
  10. ↑ Conger, George (June 30, 2023). "Diocese of the Arctic rejects synod vote in favor of "gender-transition" liturgies". Anglican Ink. Retrieved 5 February 2024.
  11. ↑ Antonio, Jason G. (July 6, 2023). "Canadian Bishops May Call ACNA Clergy". Living Church.
  12. 1 2 Hetke, Sharon Dewey (June 3, 2023). "TAP Interview: Bp. Joey Royal". Anglican Planet. Retrieved 5 February 2024.
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