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The Rev. Canon Dr. Stephen Fields stands at the cathedral's bronze eagle lectern.

Priest to retire after long, full ministry

On Nov. 30, Dean Stephen Hance announced that the Rev. Canon Dr. Stephen Fields, sub-dean of the Diocese of Toronto and vicar of St. James ...
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Jazz vespers draws a crowd

OTTAWA – The Parish of South Carleton has received a Future Fund grant of $4,085 to help expand its jazz vespers program. “We’re very grateful ...
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Church lends skates to one and all

WINDSOR – The volunteers who run the city’s free skate lending program are having a busy year, with the opening of the new rink in ...
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Parish supports college students

VICTORIA – Julian of Norwich parish in the Diocese of Islands and Inlets has launched an innovative project, Julian’s Place, to support the food, financial ...
Members of the Order of the Diocese of Toronto with bishops and cathedral clergy on the chancel steps.

Laity receive Order of the Diocese of Toronto

The Order of the Diocese of Toronto, an award created in 2013, honours members of the laity in the diocese who have given outstanding service ...

Diocese appoints new Communications director

Martha Holmen has been appointed the diocese’s next director of Communications, beginning her new role on April 13. Ms. Holmen has served in the communications ...
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Season plants seeds, provides insights

Early in the Season of Spiritual Renewal, the Rev. Canon Dr. Judy Paulsen compiled a collection of prayers called Prayers Through the Ages. The resource ...
Bishop Andrew Asbil, Mary Asbil and Chancellor Marg Creal with well-wishers.

New Year’s greetings

Bishop Andrew and Mary Asbil along with Chancellor Marg Creal exchange New Year’s greetings with friends at the annual Bishop’s Levee, held at St. James ...
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Walk & worship

St. Luke, Peterborough, St. John, Ida and the Parish of Craighurst and Midhurst hold walks and worship during the winter solstice in December. The outings ...
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Lent book study focuses on homelessness

The Rev. Canon Claudette Taylor and a group of clergy and laypeople from across the diocese, together with the Social Justice & Advocacy Committee, are ...
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Bob Marley Mass starts Black History Month

Black History Month will begin in a special way with a Eucharist at St. James Cathedral on Feb. 1 at 4:30 p.m. The service will ...
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Churches celebrate unity week

Two events in the diocese are planned to celebrate the Week of Christian Unity, held Jan. 18-25. Bishop Andrew Asbil and other Christian leaders from ...
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Distinguished organist served in diocese

Canon Dr. Giles Bryant, an organist and choral director of international renown, died on Nov. 29, 2025. Canon Bryant served in several places in the ...
Two Sisters at the Sisterhood of St. John the Divine display table.

On display

Display tables at Synod provide everything from books and calendars to spiritual retreats and insurance. The display tables are always a popular spot for Synod ...
Table of youth members at Synod.

Synod 2025

The Diocese of Toronto’s 163rd Regular Session of Synod was held Nov. 7-8 at the Sheraton Parkway Toronto North hotel in Richmond Hill. The theme ...
Three people stand outside a display of poppies at a church door.

With love

John Joukema, Phyllis Moffatt and Archdeacon Theadore Hunt of Christ Church, Brampton stand in front of a display of poppies that adorns the entrance to ...

Pray for the congregation of St. Anne’s

This public statement was issued by the diocese and St. Anne, Toronto on Nov. 23, 2025. The Anglican Diocese of Toronto and St. Anne’s Church ...
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Program mixes food, learning

Flemingdon Park Ministry (FPM) has launched new initiative called Farm to Table, a culturally inclusive cooking and food literacy program designed to bring people together ...
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Newcomers event brings deanery together

St. James the Apostle, Brampton, hosted the North Peel Deanery’s first Newcomers Meet and Greet in October, inviting newcomers to Canada and parishioners from churches ...
People seated in front of a Remembrance display outside St. Olave, Swansea.

Displays honour local soldiers

If you were strolling the streets of Swansea and Bloor West Village in Toronto in the week and half leading up to Remembrance Day, your ...
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Primate praises diocese at Synod

Offering a hopeful vision for the future of the Church, Archbishop Shane Parker, Primate of the Anglican Church of Canada, addressed the Diocese of Toronto ...
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Priest wins prize, then encampment torn down

The Rev. Canon Maggie Helwig, incumbent of St. Stephen in-the-Fields, Toronto won this year’s Toronto Book Award for Encampment, a nonfiction work about the encampment ...
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Diocese hires DEI advisor

The diocese has hired Dilesha Stelmach as its new Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) Advisor. Ms. Stelmach has over seven years’ experience in the DEI ...

Dinner hears resurrection story

The theme of this year’s outreach and advocacy conference was “seeking signs of resurrection,” but guests at the 64th annual Bishop’s Company Dinner, held the ...

Despite early difficulties, hybrid ministry is worth it

The crew running the hybrid services at Christ Church St. James, Toronto is tiny but mighty. During the pandemic, there had been six hosts, but ...

Conference seeks signs of resurrection

This year’s diocesan Outreach and Advocacy Conference broke new ground through the use of modern technology and a dramatically new approach for one of its ...

Poet-priest enlightens, entertains

Malcolm Guite is on a mission to bring music back to English poetry. So it’s fitting that the UK sonneteer and Anglican priest often finds ...