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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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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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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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Archbishop Fred Hiltz

Archbishop Fred Hiltz

 

What follows is the text of an address by Archbishop Fred Hiltz, Primate of the Anglican Church of Canada, delivered on New Year’s Day 2010, at Christ Church Cathedral in Ottawa.

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A B.C. court ruling that four dissident Anglican parishes have no legal right to their buildings and land is being viewed as a watershed moment in a decade-long battle within the Church over same-sex blessings.

The case is sure to have ramifications for the other 35 dissident parishes spread across Canada that have chosen to leave the national church over doctrinal issues, raising questions about where they will worship if other courts follow suit and rule in favour of the Anglican Church of Canada on the property issue.

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