Four more churches vote to leave

Marites N. Sison
staff writer
Oct 16, 2008

Four more congregations have voted to leave the Anglican Church of Canada and to join the Anglican Network in Canada (ANiC). They will fall under the episcopal oversight of Bishop Donald Harvey, moderator of the ANiC, and under the primatial authority of Archbishop Gregory Venables, primate of the Anglican Province of the Southern Cone.

The departures of the congregations of St. Aidan’s in Windsor, Ont.; St. George’s Ottawa; the Church of St. Peter, Hamilton, Ont.; and St. Bede’s, Kinosota, Man., bring to 14 the number of congregations that have left the Anglican church amid clashing views on the blessing of same-sex unions. (There are about 2,800 congregations in the Canadian church, which is a member of the worldwide Anglican Communion of churches.) the rest