CANADA: FOUR CANDIDATES NAMED IN ELECTION OF NEW PRIMATE

Anglican Journal

April 18, 2004

General Synod delegates will choose from four candidates for the next Primate of the Anglican Church of Canada:

Bishop Ronald Ferris (Algoma) — former Bishop of Yukon; expertise in episcopacy and transition

Bishop Andrew Hutchison (Montreal) — veteran advocate for minorities, refugees, and human rights

Bishop Caleb Lawrence (Moosonee) — leads a vast diocese with a majority-Indigenous population; champion of Aboriginal clergy

Bishop Victoria Matthews (Edmonton) — first female bishop in Canada (1993); chaired the 2003–04 Task Force on Alternative Episcopal Oversight

If elected, Matthews would be the first woman Primate in the Anglican Communion.

Bishop Fred Hiltz (Nova Scotia & PEI) was nominated but declined, with the bishops’ consent.

Election: May 31, 2004, at Brock University, St. Catharines, Ontario.

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