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Todd Townshend (born August 19, 1967 [1]) is the 14th Bishop of The Diocese of Huron in the Anglican Church of Canada. [2] He was Ordained to the diaconate May 14, 1992, ordained to the priesthood on November 30, 1992, and Consecrated a Bishop and Installed as the 14th Bishop of Huron at St. Paul's Cathedral, London, ON on Saturday January 25, 2020.
Until the installment of the new bishop, the diocese was administered by The Most Reverend Colin Johnson, retired metropolitan of Ontario and archbishop of Toronto and Moosonee. On October 26, 2019, Todd Townshend was elected the next bishop of Huron. [6] He assumed his role as the 14th bishop of Huron when consecrated 25 January 2020.
The Ecclesiastical Province of Canada was founded in 1860, originally consisting of the four dioceses in the then civil Province of Canada (Upper and Lower Canada, i.e. modern Ontario and Quebec, respectively) under the metropolitical authority of the Bishop of Montreal. The province was expanded in 1870 and 1871 to include New Brunswick and ...
The current acting primate is Anne Germond, who succeeded Linda Nicholls, formerly the bishop of the Diocese of Huron. Nicholls, who was elected on the third ballot at the July 2019 General Synod, was the first woman to head the Anglican Church of Canada as well as the second female primate in the Anglican Communion .
Following this, he attended King's at Western for a B.A. in Religious Studies before attending Huron University College from 1989 to 1992. He was ordained deacon on May 14, 1992, by Suffragan Bishop Robert Townshend of the Diocese of Huron, and ordained priest on November 30, 1992, by Archbishop Percy O'Driscoll of the Diocese of Huron.
The parishes within its territory were administered as the Anglican Parishes of the Central Interior by a suffragan bishop to the metropolitan starting 2004, and became a "recognized territory [with] the status of a diocese" (since 2016 known as the Territory of the People) on November 14, 2015. [1]
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Linda Carol Nicholls (born October 25, 1954) [2] is a Canadian Anglican bishop who served as Primate of the Anglican Church of Canada from 2019 until her retirement in 2024. . She was previously Bishop of Huron from 2016 to 2019 and a suffragan bishop in the Anglican Diocese of Toronto from 2008 to 2