CANADA: FOUR CANDIDATES NAMED IN ELECTION OF NEW PRIMATE

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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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