Canada's first aboriginal person to become a diocesan bishop is the Right Reverend Gordon Beardy. Bishop Beardy, 46 is a former Oji-Cree chief who has been suffragan bishop in the Diocese of Keewatin since September, 1993. His election as the diocesan, or senior bishop, will be seen as significant by the Church, especially by native Anglicans who make up a majority of the diocese.
06 November 1996
In an open letter read at all services on 29 September, Bishop Terence Finlay, Bishop of Toronto, asked Churches to set up a "Community Tax Redirection Fund" to help those affected by the provincial government cutbacks.
06 November 1996
The University of the South in Sewanee, Tennessee, which is owned by 28 Episcopal dioceses in 12 states, will receive an estimated $7 million in the final bequest from the estate of one of America's foremost writers.
07 October 1996
An emergency grant of $25,000 from the Presiding Bishop's Fund For World Relief was sent to the Diocese of North Carolina where Hurricane Fran brought flooding and destruction on 9 September.
07 October 1996
Indians in Argentina are taking a stand against the abuse of their rights with the support of the local Anglican Church.
07 October 1996
The Rev. John Kirkman of Western Michigan called my office to report that Mrs Betty Heidema's son was kidnapped near Quito, Ecuador. Mrs Heidema is the treasurer of his parish and her son is also Episcopalian. Fr. Kirkman asked us to contact Mrs Heidema directly, which my assistant did and obtained the following details:
22 August 1996
The Anglican Communion Office has read in the diocesan paper of Trinidad and Tobago, that two women were ordained priest in the Anglican Diocese of Barbados in May. The women Sonia Hinds and Beverley Knight were ordained by the Rt Revd Rufus Brome at the Cathedral of St Michael, Bridgetown.
26 July 1996
One of the oldest churches in the United States, where George Washington held his inaugural services and Alexander Hamilton was buried following his fatal duel with Aaron Burr, kicked off a year long celebration of its 300 years of history in May.
02 July 1996
The board of directors of the Presiding Bishop's Fund for World Relief awarded $1,037,729 in relief and development grants during its semi-annual meeting in New York, in June. The board also approved the release of $340,500 in emergency and special grants made during the time between board meetings.
02 July 1996
Ten Episcopal bishops who brought ecclesiastical charges against a fellow bishop for ordaining a non-celibate homosexual as a deacon will not appeal on the Church court's decision dismissing those charges.
02 July 1996