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The Rev. Canon Philip Hobson, OGS (left) and the Very Rev. Fr. Geoffrey Ready stand in front of a copy of a Byzantine icon in the chapel of Trinity College, Toronto.

Priests hope to restart chapter

An Anglican-Orthodox group that hasn’t been active since the 1960s is starting up again. The Toronto chapter of the Fellowship of St. Alban and St. ...
An overhead shot of people sitting in the pews of St. Mary Magdalene, Toronto during a service.

Concert pays tribute to Healey Willan

Canon Giles Bryant remembers his first year as the choirmaster at St. Mary Magdalene, Toronto. It was 1968 and he was succeeding the great Healey ...
The Rev. Andrea Budgey, Jacob Hounsell and the Rev. Maggie Helwig hold large plates of food in an industrial ktichen.

End of OFOH grants in sight

Seven years after it first launched, the Our Faith-Our Hope campaign is beginning to wind down. The last chance for parishes and individuals to apply ...
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Synod 2017

The Diocese of Toronto’s 157th Regular Session of Synod was held on Nov. 24-25 at the Sheraton Parkway Toronto North Hotel & Suites in Richmond ...
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Final wish comes true for parishioner

One of Bob Donald’s final wishes was to hold the signed agreement that officially confirmed the amalgamation of St. David Anglican Church and Holy Cross ...
A priest at a lectern speaks while two men hold up offertory plates.

Service supports people of the Caribbean

Christians must go beyond sympathy and prayer and lend concrete aid to those struck by disaster. This was the central theme of a special Saturday ...
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New Executive Director brings experience

Angela Hantoumakos has worked in industry and health care for much of her life, but the opportunity to work for the Church has special meaning. ...
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Service supports people of the Caribbean

A service of solidarity and support for the people of the Caribbean is being held after hurricanes devastated parts of the region this fall. The ...
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Church secretaries gather in Oshawa

The Professional Church Secretaries’ Association’s annual conference took place from Sept. 30 to Oct. 3 in Oshawa. Attended by 55 church secretaries and administrators from ...
Imam Habeeb Alli reads from a statement while Bishop Kevin Robertson and other Christian, Jewish and Muslim faith leaders listen outside Mayor John Tory’s office in Toronto.

Faith leaders hold ‘pray-in’

Faith leaders from across Toronto marked the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty on Oct. 17 by occupying City Hall and performing a “pray-in” ...
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Special Day

The Bridge Prison Ministry and Regeneration Outreach Community, two agencies that help ex-prisoners and the poor and homeless in Brampton, marked World Homeless Day on ...
Dr. Carl James speaks from the front of the room.

Conference urges justice, equity for all

Participants at the diocese’s annual Outreach and Advocacy Conference heard a powerful call to work for equity in the Church and society, and grappled with ...
The exterior of Holy Trinity, Thornhill.

Church goes green, one step at a time

Parishioners who sit in the back pews at Holy Trinity, Thornhill will be feeling a little warmer this winter, thanks to the efforts of the ...
The Rev. Dr. Tony Campolo speaks at Grace Church, Scarborough.

Evangelist tells Christians to fight for justice

For the Rev. Dr. Tony Campolo, the American evangelist, sociology professor and activist for global justice, the kingdom of God does not refer to an ...
The Rev. Nadim Nassar speaks.

Priest sheds light on Syria

Like other countries in the Middle East, Syria is a complex multi-sectarian country, once controlled by outside western powers, devastated by wars, permeated by corruption, ...
Group shot of Revive participants.

Lay leaders brought closer to God

Lorraine Bell had been attending Trinity Church, Aurora for five years but had always felt that something was missing. She volunteered to help out with ...
A group of people at a pow wow.

Parish visits First Nation’s pow wow

When it comes to living out the call to reconciliation with First Nations, St. Saviour, Orono is a small parish that thinks big. The parish ...
Young people gather for a photo.

Youth urged to work for reconciliation

“There is no reconciliation without compassion and understanding. You can’t reconcile with me if you don’t know who I am, my story and the story ...
People talk and write ideas on large papers.

Large turnout for town hall

More than 100 people – twice the number hoped – attended Bishop Jenny Andison’s first town hall meeting in York-Credit Valley to hear people’s hopes, ...
People with Indigenous drums walk along Toronto's waterfront.

Diocese gives $100,000 to healing fund

The Diocese of Toronto is giving $100,000 to help replenish the national church’s Anglican Fund for Healing and Reconciliation. The fund, which has provided grants ...
The Rev. Sheilagh Ashworth with her beehives near St. Mary Magdalene, Shomberg.

Beekeeping good for her soul

In the village of Schomberg, an Anglican priest has found unusual common ground to help her connect with her neighbours: bees. The Rev. Sheilagh Ashworth, ...
The deacon's cupboard at St. Peter, Erindale with some dry goods inside.

Cupboard connects church, homeless

In a new twist on a neighbourhood service that usually provides food for the mind, an updated version is providing food for the body. The ...
The Rev. Dr. Pearce Carefoote, Archbishop Colin and Ellen Johnson at the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library.

I am enormously grateful to God

On Sept. 21, I informed the members of Diocesan Council that, after many months of prayerful discernment, I am asking diocesan Synod to concur with ...
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Anglicans support migrant field workers

You may have seen them as you drive east, west or north of Toronto: Old Testament-like scenes with hundreds of foreign workers labouring in fields ...
The Rev. Canon Susan Bell preaches at St. James Cathedral.

Canon missioner becomes full time role

For the past 10 years, the Rev. Canon Susan Bell has been speaking to a school community of 650 students, staff and faculty three times ...
Canon Dave Robinson at the helm of his boat.

Director sets sail for retirement

As he nears the end of his long career with the diocese, Canon Dave Robinson is planning another sort of journey. Next summer, he will ...
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Conference seeks to break down barriers

The diocese’s annual Outreach and Advocacy Conference will take place on Nov. 4 at St. John, York Mills, 19 Don Ridge Dr., Toronto. St. John’s ...