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This official announcement was posted on Saturday, so I'm slow catching up with it.
Bishop Terry O. Buckle of the Diocese of Yukon has been elected metropolitan of the ecclesiastical province of British Columbia and Yukon by the executive committee of the provincial synod.Archbishop Buckle was elected after three ballots. He led on each ballot. Also in the running were Bishop Michael Ingham of the Diocese of New Westminster, and Bishop James Cowan of the Diocese of British Columbia.
He becomes the chief bishop for BC and the Yukon, one of five archbishops in the Anglican Church of Canada.
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The new Metropolitan was installed Saturday, November 5, at St. Anne’s Anglican Church, 4071 Francis Road, Richmond.
It's very interesting that Abp Buckle was able to defeat two über-liberals, Bp Ingham and Bp Cowan. I remember when Bp Ingham was elected Bishop of New Westminster. A friend who had been a delegate from St John's (Shaughnessy) Church, where I attended before moving north in 1988, described Bp Ingham as to the left of Bishop Spong. Ron Ferris, Terry Buckle's predecessor as Bishop of Yukon, was the alternative candidate for the office that Ingham won.
Michael Ingham has now been defeated in two attempts to move up the Anglican Church of Canada's ecclesiastical ladder: first, for Primate of Canada, and now as Archbishop of BC and Yukon. Not only that, he is expected to pledge obedience to the man he sought to prohibit from entering his diocese two years ago. It has been suggested that he may seek to move over to the Episcopal Church USA, where they will be soon be looking for a new Presiding Bishop.
Pray for Abp Buckle, his wife, and their four children. He will need much wisdom and perseverance if the Diocese of New Westminister is to be moved off the wide path and on to the narrow way that leads to life. For the good of the church, let us pray this will be accomplished, by the grace of God.
UPDATE (27 Nov.): A friend with a better memory than I has reminded me that it was actually Ron Ferris, at the time Bishop of Yukon, who was the alternative candidate to Michael Ingham for Bishop of New Westminster. Bp Ferris was predecessor to Terry Buckle as Bishop of Yukon, and has since moved on to become Bishop of Algoma. The post has been amended accordingly.
[...] Archbishop Hutchison will arrive in Whitehorse on the afternoon of Thursday, 14 September. On Friday and Saturday, he will look around our fair city and meet with Archbishop of Yukon Terry Buckle and other diocesan clergy and their families. On Saturday afternoon, he will unveil a new exhibit on the history of Anglicanism in Yukon. I plan to be there and photoblog the event—if my cover isn’t blown in the meantime. [...]
[...] An Advent meditation from Archbishop Terry Buckle By StatGuy The latest issue of Anglican Planet carries an Advent meditation by The Most Reverend Terry Buckle, Archbishop of Yukon and Metropolitan of the Ecclesiastical Province of BC and Yukon. It is based on the collect for the First Sunday in Advent which, in accordance with the 1662 Book of Common Prayer, is to be repeated every day, with the other collects in Advent, until Christmas-Eve. Almighty God, give us grace that we may cast away the works of darkness, and put upon us the armour of light, now in the time of this mortal life, in which thy Son Jesus Christ came to visit us in great humility; that in the last day, when he shall come again in his glorious Majesty to judge both the quick and the dead, we may rise to the life immortal, through him who liveth and reigneth with thee and the Holy Ghost, now and ever. Amen. [...]
[...] Nelson, BC, and rector and canon at Yellowknife. He was chosen Bishop of Yukon in 1995 and Metropolitan (provincial archbishop) of BC and Yukon in 2005. Archbishop Buckle identified finding resources [...]