She has been the Bishop of London since 2018. In her first comments since accepting the role, the Archbishop said: “As I respond to the call of Christ to this new ministry, I do so in the sam...

THE ANGLICAN Church of Canada elected a new leader at last June’s General Synod – but not from among the original slate of four candidates. The Rt. Rev. Shane Parker, Bishop of Ottawa, was...

THE RT REV. Dr. Mark Short, Bishop of Canberra & Goulburn since 2019, was elected on July 19 as Primate of the Anglican Church of Australia. He is the first evangelical to lead the church since th...

THE CHURCH of England’s governing body has called on the British government to improve funding for “desperately needed” palliative care rather than putting vulnerable people at risk...

(Staff) THE BISHOP-ELECT of Rupert’s Land, who has lived and worked in both Africa and North America, hopes to bridge the division between the Global North and the Global South in the Anglican C...

ANGLICAN LEADERS from across the Global South condemned the July 30 election of the Rt. Rev. Cherry Vann, a partnered lesbian, as Archbishop of Wales, describing it as an “abandonment of the fai...

IN THE LAST week of June, over two hundred delegates to the General Synod of the Anglican Church of Canada met in London, Ontario to consider ways to rethink and restructure their denomination.

A massive financial scandal is rocking the Anglican Church of Canada. How was a 9-million-dollar five-year lease signed without the knowledge of the denomination’s finance committee? How could s...

THE ANGLICAN Church of Canada has elected a new leader – but not from among the original slate of four candidates. The Rt. Rev. Shane Parker, Bishop of Ottawa, was elected the 15th Primate of th...

THE BISHOP-ELECT of Montreal told The Anglican Planet and The Living Church that he has three top priorities for his episcopate: reconciliation, financial health, and safe-church reform.

THE Diocese of Montreal, facing allegations of misconduct against at least one of its candidates for coadjutor bishop, has elected the Ven. Dr. Victor-David Mbuyi Bipungu.

THE ANGLICAN Church of Canada has announced four nominees for the office of primate: the Most Rev. Christopher Harper, the Most Rev. Greg Kerr-Wilson, the Rt. Rev. David Lehmann, and the Rt. Rev. Risc...

(Staff)  ON March 8, the Rev. Chad McCharles, a Manitoba priest and student of Benedictine spirituality, was elected bishop of Saskatoon.

ON March 26, the Rev. Rod BrantFrancis was elected as the next bishop of the Diocese of Moosonee during an electoral synod held in Cochrane, Ontario. There were only two candidates and he won sufficie...

THE Archbishop of Kenya has ordered churches under his care to stop allowing speeches by politicians during their worship services. The ban moves the Anglican Church of Kenya into a stricter separatio...

THE RT. REV. Martin Gordon, who has served as Bishop of Goma in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) since December 2022, has fled the see city amid renewed attacks by a rebel military group backed...

ON Dec. 11, 2024, Canada’s Ministry of Health released the Fifth Annual Report on Medical Assistance in Dying which indicated that there were 15,343 reported euthanasia (MAiD) deaths representin...

(Staff)  THE Anglican Church of Canada (ACoC) is divided not only into 30 dioceses, each led by at least one bishop, but also into four regional groupings called Provinces, each headed by a Metro...

(Staff) POPE Francis issued a major rebuke to the Trump administration’s plans for mass deportations of migrants, warning that the forceful removal of people purely because of their illegal stat...

(Staff) ON FEB. 11, the same day the Pope issued his letter, 27 faith groups filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court in Washington arguing that President Trump’s decision to rescind a 2011 govern...

KATHERINE ‘Kit” Packer, the wife of one of the most influential evangelicals in the English-speaking world died on Nov. 12 at a hospice in Mission, B.C. Her husband, J.I. Packer, died on t...

THE Anglican Network in Canada has voted to change its name to the “Anglican Diocese of Canada.” It did so at its 17th annual synod held at St. George’s Church in Burlington, Ont

(Staff)  ON NOV. 29, British lawmakers approved in principle a Bill that permits terminally ill adults to seek help to end their lives if they have less than six months to live and can demonstrat...

(Staff) ON NOV. 12 the Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, resigned amid allegations that he did little to stop a predatory layman from serially abusing as many as 130 boys and young men in Britia...

Joey Royal, suffragan bishop of the Arctic, has stunned Anglicans across the country by leaving episcopal office to take up a new position with an organization that ministers to diplomats and politici...

“Praise God - the first equipment check and test broadcast of 98.3 CIJC-FM Anglican Church Radio in Iqaluit happened today! Services, gospel music, prayers, readings, and testimonies are now abl...

THE VEN. Darrell Critch, a priest of the Anglican Church in North America (ACNA), was elected August 24 as Bishop of Mahajanga, Madagascar, a diocese of the Church in the Province of the Indian Ocean....

Joey Royal, suffragan bishop of the Arctic, has stunned Anglicans across the country by leaving episcopal office to take up a new position with an organization that ministers to diplomats and politici...

ON JUNE 22, The Rt. Rev. Steve Wood of St. Andrew’s Church in Mount Pleasant, South Carolina was elected the next archbishop of the Anglican Church in North America (ACNA).

BISHOP SEAN ROWE of the Diocese of Northwestern Pennsylvania and the Diocese of Western New York was elected the next presiding bishop of the Episcopal Church, succeeding Presiding Bishop Michael Curr...

Abp ANNE GERMOND has become Acting Primate of the Anglican Church of Canada with the Sept. 15 retirement of Abp Linda Nicholls. Germond had been serving as bishop of the dioceses of Moosonee and Algom...

NEW NUMBERS for the Anglican Church of Canada (ACoC) are out, and they show that Canada is the first major province of the Anglican Communion to have collapsed. This is highly significant, both for...