The Diocese of Kootenay is a diocese of the Ecclesiastical Province of British Columbia and the Yukon of the Anglican Church of Canada.
Diocese of Kootenay | |
|---|---|
| Location | |
| Ecclesiastical province | British Columbia and Yukon |
| Statistics | |
| Parishes | 26 (2022)[1] |
| Members | 2,363 (2022)[1] |
| Information | |
| Denomination | Anglican Church of Canada |
| Cathedral | St. Michael and All Angels Cathedral, Kelowna St. Saviour's Pro-Cathedral, Nelson |
| Current leadership | |
| Bishop | Lynne McNaughton |
| Website | |
| www | |
The diocese was created by a decision of the Synod of the Diocese of New Westminster in November 1899 to divide that diocese into two along the 120 degrees line of longitude. The new Diocese of Kootenay would comprise the area of the original diocese eastward of that line to the Alberta border. In 1900 the Synod of the new Diocese met in Nelson and selected St. Saviour's Church there as its cathedral. After being provisionally administered by New Westminster for several years, the Diocese of Kootenay got its first bishop, Alexander Doull, in 1914.[2]
In 1987 the cathedral was re-established at its present location at St. Michael and All Angels' Church in the City of Kelowna, where the bishops had actually lived since 1955.
Bishops of Kootenay
edit| No. | Name | Dates | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Alexander Doull | 1914–1933 | |
| 2 | Walter Adams | 1933–1947 | Metropolitan of British Columbia and Yukon, 1942-1951 and Bishop of Yukon, 1947–1952 |
| 3 | Patrick Clark | 1948–1954 | |
| 4 | Philip Beattie | 1955–1960 | |
| 5 | Bill Coleman | 1961–1965 | |
| 6 | Ted Scott | 1966–1971 | Primate of All Canada, 1971–1986 |
| 7 | Fraser Berry | 1971–1989 | |
| 8 | David Crawley | 1990–2004 | Metropolitan of British Columbia and Yukon, 1994-2004 |
| 9 | John Privett | 2005–2018 | Metropolitan of British Columbia and Yukon, 2009-2018 |
| 10 | Lynne McNaughton | 2019–present | Metropolitan of British Columbia and Yukon, 2021-present |
Deans of Kootenay
editSince 1987, the Dean of Kootenay has also been the incumbent at St Michael and All Angel's Cathedral, Kelowna.
- 1945–1948: Patrick Clark (Bishop of Kootenay, 1948)
- 1948–1956: Thomas L. Leadbeater [3]
- 1957–1963: G.W. Lang
- 1973–1980: Alan Jackson
- 1987–2000: Jack Greenhalgh [4]
- 2001–2009: Allan R. Reed [4]
- 2009–2020: Nissa Basbaum [4]
- 2021–present: David Tiessen
References
edit- ^ a b 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.
- ^ "Synod of the Diocese of Kootenay fonds". MemoryBC. Retrieved 6 April 2015.
- ^ "The Sower" (PDF). Diocese of Calgary. Archived from the original (PDF) on 17 April 2015. Retrieved 8 April 2015.
- ^ a b c "A Brief History of St. Michael's". St Michael's Cathedral. Retrieved 5 September 2020.
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