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anglican church 150x150 Top 10 Anglican Church Web Sites in CanadaThe Anglican Church of Canada provides leadership, ministry and mission support in 30 Canadian dioceses with 1,800 congregations in communities in every part of Canada.

ANiC logoThe Anglican Church in North America provides oversight for one Canadian Diocese, being the Anglican Network in Canada (ANiC) with 46 congregations mainly in Ontario and British Columbia.

Not all Anglican Churches have web sites. Of the ones that do, not all are ranked by the search engines, often because they are not registered.

Consequently, we may have missed some great websites, as our Top 10 list is based solely on the Alexa Rank as of June 01, 2010. All of our top 10 rank in the top 5 million web sites world wide. If you encounter any Anglican Church web site that belongs on our list, please let us know.

Top 10 Anglican Church Web Sites in Canada

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Tags: Anglican Church Of Canada, St Stephen's Anglican

The Rev. Dr. Gary Nicolosi

The Rev. Dr. Gary Nicolos

Back in the October 2009 issue of this newspaper, I wrote these words: “It is no longer business as usual in the diocese. No more getting by, barely surviving, hanging on, doing ministry as we have always done it, remaining in our comfort zone, while being impervious to what is happening around us.”

Everything is now up for review. There are no sacred cows, no hands-off issues. Nothing is off limits. No church or organization is immune from scrutiny. No job is guaranteed – not mine, not the Bishop’s – nobody.”

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Tags: Religion_Belief, Rev. Dr. Gary Nicolosi

Archbishop calls for more courageous engagement

Archbishop Fred Hiltz Archbishop Fred Hiltz, primate.It’s time for the Anglican Church of Canada to get innovative about the ways in which it engages the rest of the world, says Archbishop Fred Hiltz, primate.

Delegates to General Synod 2010 can expect to be “challenged to stop looking inward,” according to Archbishop Hiltz. “We’re focusing on mission,” he told the Anglican Journal.

Archbishop Hiltz explained that the church needs to “start looking out to the world in very courageous ways…the Gospel calls us to be the church in the world.”

About 500 delegates, international partners, visitors and staff will gather for the triennial meeting of the church’s governing body on June 3 to 11 at St. Mary’s University in Halifax.

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Tags: Anglican Church, Anglicanism, Fred Hiltz, Religion_Belief

Camp Columbia, Thetis Island

Camp ColumbiaThere is a buzz of activity getting ready for the 2010 summer ministry season!

Staff members are coming together, programs are being created, volunteers are getting excited, children and families are registering for their favorite camp!

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The Rev. Dr. Gary NicolosiThe Wardens and Selection Committee of Saint James Westminster Anglican Church in London, Ontario are pleased to announce the appointment of

The Rev. Dr. Gary Nicolosi

as The Eighth Rector of Saint James Westminster.

Gary is currently the Congregational Development Officer of the Diocese of British Columbia in Victoria.

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Tags: Anglican Church, Gary Nicolosi, Religion_Belief

Where there is no vision, 
the people perish.
—Proverbs 29:18

Vision 2019

I love a parade as much as the next person. If nothing else, it serves as a distraction from the cares and worries of everyday life. But what if the parade were marching down the centre aisle of your beloved church, and when you looked more closely, all you saw was…well…the same old parade? Same as last year, and the year before that and the decade before that. Would you really care to watch anymore?

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Tags: Anglican Church, Missional Christianity, Religion_Belief

Amazing TogetherAmazing Together, a compilation video of Canadian Anglicans singing “Amazing Grace,” has been honoured with a special jury award at WorldFest Houston, an international film festival.

The 10-minute documentary includes clips from 500 unique videos submitted after Amazing Grace Sunday in fall 2008.

Thousands of Canadian Anglicans filmed themselves singing the hymn on beaches, in parking lots, in cathedrals and even from Kandahar.

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Tags: Amazing Grace, Religion_Belief

The Anglican Church has ordered its historic Cowichan Station Church closed. John McKinley/file

The Anglican Church has ordered its historic Cowichan Station Church closed. John McKinley/file

The Cowichan Station community is fighting back against a decision to close its historic St. Andrew’s Church.

The Anglican Diocese of B.C. voted in favour of disestablishing the more than 100-year-old church over the weekend, with plans to sell or lease the picturesque property.

Parishioners have been encouraged to join one of the remaining Anglican churches in the valley — but Cowichan Station isn’t giving up on St. Andrew’s just yet.

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Tags: Anglican Church, Cowichan Station, Religion_Belief

Archdeacon Christopher Page

Archdeacon Christopher Page

Archdeacon Christopher Page says there are ‘many other attractive options for Sunday morning.’

As churches continue to close, the Anglican Diocese of British Columbia is being urged to turn to social media to evangelize.

Faced with declining enrollment and revenue that will force it to shutter churches on Vancouver Island, the Anglican Church is turning to the social medium where millions of followers already flock: Twitter.

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Tags: Anglican Church, Religion_Belief

not brentwood chapelProposed restructuring in the diocese of British Columbia, including a recommendation to close 13 churches, has received a lot of “feedback” from individuals and parishes.

So much feedback, in fact, that the team’s co-chair, Canon Dr. Martin Hendy, said it won’t be possible to respond to everyone before the diocesan synod meets Mar. 5-7.

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Tags: Anglicanism, Religion_Belief

Archdeacon Christopher Page

Archdeacon Christopher Page

Anglican Church facing the threat of extinction in Canada

The Anglican Church in Canada – once as powerful in the nation’s secular life as it was in its soul – may be only a generation away from extinction, says a just-published assessment of the church’s future.

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Tags: Anglican Church Of Canada, Anglicanism, Church of England, Religion_Belief

A LONG-AWAITED provincial court decision has disappointed traditional Anglicans.

god approved 300x185 Loss of buildings not key issue, say traditional AnglicansOn November 25, Justice Stephen Kelleher of the B.C. Supreme Court ruled that the Anglican Diocese of New Westminster will retain the property of four parishes which have left the diocese to join the Anglican Network in Canada (ANiC). While the decision has brought some clarity, however, it has not resolved all issues in the dispute.

A strong majority in the four parishes voted to leave the diocese in 2008. As stated in an ANiC news release, they had been in “serious theological dispute” with the diocese since 2002, when it voted to offer blessings to same-sex unions.

The parishes have argued that the real issue is their commitment to remain true to the teachings of the Bible. They are among many traditional parishes uncomfortable with liberal theological and social trends in the Anglican church.

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Tags: Anglican Church Of Canada, Christianity, Religion_Belief

Anglican Diocese team recommends closing several churches around Victoria, Vancouver Island in “transformation”

St. Paul's Anglican Church

St. Paul's Anglican Church (click image to enlarge)

Ten Anglican churches in Greater Victoria should close and their parishioners move to other congregations, says a report released yesterday that calls for sweeping changes to deal with declining attendance and aging congregations.

The report was commissioned by the Diocese of British Columbia, which governs Anglican churches on Vancouver Island and the Gulf Islands. It also recommends the closing of churches at Crofton, Cowichan Station, South Pender and Saltspring.

Church leaders, priests and parish representatives are expected to vote on the recommendations at a meeting of the Diocesan Synod in March. If approved, the changes could take effect within 18 months.

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Tags: Anglican Church, Anglican Diocese of British Columbia, James Cowan, Religion_Belief, St Stephen's Anglican

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