Moderator of the United Church of Canada
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The Moderator of the United Church of Canada is the presiding leader of the United Church of Canada, Canada's largest Protestant denomination. The church is highly decentralized and non-dogmatic and the moderator has only limited power. The moderator presides over the meeting of the court, thus the moderator is the chairperson, and is understood to be a member of the court acting primus inter pares. Sitting moderators are styled the "Right Reverend" if they are ordained clergy (since the election of Robert McClure, a medical doctor, in 1968, moderators have not necessarily been clergy) and the "Very Reverend" after their retirement, in keeping with the practice of the pre-Church Union Presbyterian Church in Canada.
Moderators are elected at the church's triannual General Councils. The current moderator is Mardi Tindal.
List of United Church Moderators
- 1925 - 1926 George C. Pidgeon
- 1926 - 1928 James Endicott
- 1928 - 1930 William T. Gunn
- 1930 - 1932 Edmund H. Oliver
- 1932 - 1934 T. Albert Moore
- 1934 - 1936 Richard Roberts
- 1936 - 1938 Peter Bryce
- 1938 - 1940 John W. Woodside
- 1940 - 1942 Aubrey S. Tuttle
- 1942 - 1944 John R. P. Sclater
- 1944 - 1946 Jesse H. Arnup
- 1946 - 1948 Thomas W. Jones
- 1948 - 1950 Willard E. Brewing
- 1950 - 1952 Clarence M. Nicholson
- 1952 - 1954 Alexander A. Scott
- 1954 - 1956 George Dorey
- 1956 - 1958 James S. Thomson
- 1958 - 1960 Angus J. MacQueen
- 1960 - 1962 Hugh A. McLeod
- 1962 - 1964 James R. Mutchmor
- 1964 - 1968 Ernest M. Howse
- 1966 - 1968 Wilfred C. Lockhart
- 1968 - 1971 Robert Baird McClure
- 1971 - 1972 Arthur B. B. Moore
- 1972 - 1974 Bruce McLeod
- 1974 - 1977 Wilbur K. Howard
- 1977 - 1980 George M. Tuttle
- 1980 - 1982 Lois M. Wilson
- 1982 - 1984 W. Clarke MacDonald
- 1984 - 1986 Robert F. Smith
- 1986 - 1988 Anne M. Squire
- 1988 - 1990 Sang Chul Lee
- 1990 - 1992 Walter H. Farquharson
- 1992 - 1994 Stan McKay
- 1994 - 1997 Marion Best
- 1997 - 2000 Bill Phipps
- 2000 - 2003 Marion Pardy
- 2003 - 2006 Peter Short
- 2006 - 2009 David Giuliano
- 2009 - present Mardi Tindal
References
Categories:
- Christianity in Canada
- Canadian clergy
- Moderators of the United Church of Canada
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