Canada Connection - Montreal
image: The Anglican Church of Canada's map of Canadian dioceses and provinces, from anglican.ca (modified to highlight the Anglican Diocese of Montreal)
In the week of 21 March 2021 we pray for The Rt. Rev. Mary Irwin-Gibson, Bishop, and the people and clergy of the Anglican Diocese of Montreal.
"The Diocese of Montreal is a diocese of the Ecclesiastical Province of Canada of the Anglican Church of Canada, in turn a province of the Anglican Communion. The diocese comprises the 21,400 square kilometres (8,300 sq mi) encompassing the City and Island of Montreal, the Laurentians, the South Shore opposite Montreal, and part of the Eastern Townships... The diocese maintains approximately 9,000 on its parish rolls in about seventy parishes.
"The diocese was established in 1850, having been carved off from the Diocese of Quebec (where there was a suffragan bishop of Montreal from 1836). The first synod was organised nine years later. Its first bishop, Francis Fulford, was influenced by the Oxford Movement, and the diocese historically held a generally Anglo-Catholic or high church orientation."[Wikipedia]
Le site web du diocèse est aussi disponible en français (travail en cours) - pour "promouvoir l’Évangile de Jésus-Christ en français sous la forme Anglicane: généreuse, ouverte, biblique, inclusive, ancienne-et-moderne, diverse...même innovatrice !" https://www.fr.montreal.anglican.ca/
The diocesan cathedral of Christ Church is in Montreal. The present building, the third Christ Church, was completed in 1859. More about the cathedral
The quarterly diocesan newsletter is the Anglican Montreal.
Do you have connections with this diocese? We'd love to hear about them!
Cathedral photos:
- By Kris from Seattle, USA - Flickr, CC BY 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=631344
- By Diego Delso, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=62438336
- By Yvonne at lakediary.com https://www.lakediary.com/montreal-photo-diary-part-2-five-churches-one-day/christ-church-cathedral-montreal-2/