Dual Role Bishop: CEN 6.22.07 p 7 June 22, 2007
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The former Bishop of Alaska, Mark MacDonald begins his dual ministry as an active member of the American and Canadian House of Bishops this week. On June 22, Bishop MacDonald will take office as national bishop for all indigenous persons in the Anglican Church of Canada.
On June 8, Bishop MacDonald was also confirmed by the Navajoland Area Mission in the United States as its area bishop. Created in 1978, the Navajoland Area Mission was carved out of the dioceses of Arizona, Utah and the Rio Grande and serves the Navajo Indian reservation. Its bishop is appointed by House of Bishops and serves under the American church’s Presiding Bishop.
On Jan 4 Canadian Archbishop Andrew Hutchison appointed Bishop MacDonald Canada’s first National Indigenous Bishop. Bishop MacDonald will be one of two active Anglican bishops with cures in two different provinces. The Church of Pakistan’s suffragan bishop for the Arabian Gulf, Bishop Azad Marshall, is also episcopal vicar of Iran in the Episcopal Church in Jerusalem and the Middle East and will be consecrated Iran’s diocesan bishop in August.
Alaska Bishop to Resign — To Serve New Canadian Jurisdiction: TLC 1.04.07 January 4, 2007
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The Bishop of Alaska, the Rt. Rev. Mark L. MacDonald, will become the Anglican Church of Canada’s first National Indigenous Bishop with oversight over Canada’s First Nations people, Archbishop Andrew Hutchison announced at a Jan. 4 news conference in Toronto.
Bishop MacDonald’s jurisdiction will cross Canada’s existing diocesan boundaries as well as the U.S.-Canadian border. While he has resigned as Bishop of Alaska to take up the Toronto-based post, he will continue in his role as assisting bishop of Navajoland Area Mission in The Episcopal Church.
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