Anglican Diocese of Edmonton

Diocese of Edmonton Dioecesis Edmontonensis Diocèse d'Edmonton
Location
Country	Canada
Ecclesiastical province	Northern Lights
Archdeaconries	Edmonton, McLeod River, Strathcona, Vermilion River
Headquarters	All Saints Anglican Cathedral, Edmonton, AB, Canada
Coordinates	53.540°N 113.497°W / 53.540; -113.497
Statistics
Parishes	44 (2022)[1]
Members	5,912 (2022)[1]
Information
Denomination	Anglican 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 the Northern Lights 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]

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.	Image	Name	Dates	Notes
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		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	1997–2007	Anglican Diocese of Christchurch 2008–2018
10		Jane Alexander	2008–2021
11		Stephen London	2021–	Consecrated Sept 18, 2021

References

1. 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?

External links

• Diocesan website.
• Diocese of Edmonton Cursillo.
• St. Mary & St. George Parish, Jasper. Alberta Ministry of Culture; Historic Resource.