ONTARIO, CA: Two More Parishes Join Anglican Network in Canada

ANiC Release
October 5, 2008

The congregations of St George's in Ottawa and the Church of St Peter in Hamilton both voted with overwhelming majorities today to come under the episcopal oversight of Bishop Donald Harvey, Moderator of the Anglican Network in Canada (ANiC) and under the Primatial authority of Archbishop Gregory Venables of the Anglican Province of the Southern Cone.

The two congregations demonstrated strong unity in making these decisions. At St George's the vote was 130 in favour and 27 opposed, while at St Peter's, 42 voted in favour and one was opposed. Attendance at both parish vestry meetings was unexpectedly high.

With the addition of these two parishes, ANiC now comprises 21 parishes, 13 of which were former Anglican Church of Canada parishes at the time of their votes.

"It is a great joy to welcome the people of St George's and St Peter's into a faithfully Anglican and unabashedly Christian organization," said the Venerable Charlie Masters, Executive Archdeacon of the Anglican Network in Canada. "By aligning with the Anglican Network in Canada, they join a growing movement of Anglicans throughout North America seeking to remain in the mainstream of global and historic Anglicanism." the rest at Virtueonline