Matthew Puddister

For 180 years, St. Mark’s Anglican Church has loomed over the village of Barriefield in east Kingston, Ont. —distinguished by its tall square tower that has made the Gothic Revival building a local landmark, known to residents as the “church on the hill.”

Archbishop Lynne McNaughton has submitted her resignation as archbishop and metropolitan of the ecclesiastical province of B.C. and Yukon, citing a desire to focus on work in her own diocese of Kootenay.

Feheley received the Cross of St. Augustine at Lambeth Palace in November. Photo: Contributed

The Ontario Superior Court has overturned the public indecency conviction of an Anglican priest in Toronto and ordered a new trial after an appeal found the trial judge erred in convicting the accused on the basis of recklessness.

Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby speaks from the pulpit during his 2022 visit to Canada. Photo: Anglican Video

Doctors at Al-Ahli Arab Hospital in Gaza perform leg surgery on a patient. Photo: Episcopal Diocese of Jerusalem

The Indigenous Anglican church is beginning work on mental health ministries amid a national epidemic of suicides and overdoses in Indigenous communities, Archdeacon Rosalyn Elm, the church’s Indigenous ministries coordinator, told the Council of General Synod (CoGS) in November.

Canon Eric Beresford, an influential church ethicist and theologian and the longest-serving president of the Atlantic School of Theology (AST), died suddenly of a heart attack Dec. 31. He was 67 years old.

A vintage 1981 interview with British Marxist Ted Grant, founding member of the Militant group in Britain and later the International Marxist Tendency—today the Revolutionary Communist International—makes for fascinating viewing.

Video footage of all General Synods going back to 1988 and documentaries of all 11 Sacred Circles has now been digitized—converted from videotape into a format that can be processed by computers—and will soon be fully indexed in a free online archive that a leading scholar calls useful not just for church historians, but for all interested Anglicans.