Anglican Diocese of Edmonton

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Diocese of Edmonton

Dioecesis Edmontonensis

Diocèse d'Edmonton
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Location
CountryCanada
Ecclesiastical province Ecclesiastical Province of Rupert's Land
Archdeaconries Edmonton, McLeod River, Strathcona, Vermilion River
HeadquartersAll Saints Anglican Cathedral, Edmonton, AB, Canada
Coordinates 53°32′24″N113°29′49″W / 53.540°N 113.497°W / 53.540; -113.497
Statistics
Parishes44 (2022) [1]
Members5,912 (2022) [1]
Information
DenominationAnglican Church of Canada
Rite Anglican
Cathedral All Saints' Cathedral, Edmonton
Current leadership
Bishop Stephen London
Website
edmonton.anglican.ca

The Diocese of Edmonton is a diocese of the Ecclesiastical Province of Rupert's Land of the Anglican Church of Canada. The diocese comprises over 126,000 square kilometres of the civil Province of Alberta, consisting of a band across the central part of the province, extending to the borders of the adjacent provinces of British Columbia to the west and Saskatchewan to the east. Its See city is Edmonton, and its roughly 7,000 Anglicans on parish rolls are served by 53 parishes, according to the most recent figures published by the Anglican Church of Canada. [2]

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The diocese was established in 1913 when it was divided from the Diocese of Calgary (which in turn had been divided from the Diocese of Saskatchewan in 1888). The following year, the diocese was incorporated by the Alberta legislature.

Edmonton is the major city within the diocese. Other communities are a mix of small, rural centres and suburban bedroom communities of the capital.

A lay order, the Company of the Cross ran the Saint John's School of Alberta which closed in 2008. In the past, the school and order were specifically under the control of the diocese and bishop. [3]

Bishops of Edmonton

No.ImageNameDatesNotes
1 Henry Gray 1914–1931
2 Arthur Burgett 1932–1940
3 Walter Barfoot 1941–1954 Primate of the Anglican Church of Canada 1950-1959
4 Howard Clark 1954–1961 Primate of the Anglican Church of Canada 1959-1971
5 W. Gerald Burch, Bishop of Edmonton 1960-1976.jpg Gerald Burch 1962–1976
6 John Langstone 1976–1979
7 Kent Clarke 1980–1987 Metropolitan of Rupert's Land, 1986–1987
8 Ken Genge 1988–1996
9 Victoria Matthews.jpg Victoria Matthews 1997–2007 Anglican Diocese of Christchurch 2008–2018
10 Bishop Jane 2019 web (cropped).jpg Jane Alexander 2008–2021
11 Stephen London 2021–Consecrated Sept 18, 2021

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References

  1. 1 2 Elliot, Neil (15 March 2024). "Dioceses of the ACC – by numbers". Numbers Matters. (Neil Elliot is the statistics officer for the Anglican Church of Canada.). Retrieved 17 March 2024.
  2. "2017 STATISTICAL REPORT" (PDF). Anglican Church of Canada. Retrieved 22 March 2022.
  3. However, there is currently no ongoing relationship with either the Company of the Cross or Saint John's School. Company of the Cross (1971). "St. John's/Company of the Cross Annual Report". In legal fact the company is two companies, each operated under the auspices of an Anglican bishop, one in Manitoba under the bishop of Rupert's Land, the other in Alberta under the bishop of Edmonton. Since the bishops renew the members in the company's service annually, they could presumably dissolve the company by refusing to admit new members.... Each time the one of the company's activities raises public question or controversy ... the bishops find themselves assailed with the same questions: Are these people part of the church, or are they not, and if they are what controls does the church have over them?