- Anglican Diocese of Edmonton
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Diocese of Edmonton 
Location Ecclesiastical province Ecclesiastical Province of Rupert's Land Archdeaconries Edmonton, McLeod River, Strathcona, Vermilion River Coordinates 53°32′24″N 113°29′49″W / 53.540°N 113.497°WCoordinates: 53°32′24″N 113°29′49″W / 53.540°N 113.497°W Statistics Parishes 57 Information Rite Anglican Cathedral All Saints' Cathedral, Edmonton Current leadership Bishop Right Rev. Dr. Jane Alexander Website edmonton.anglican.org The Diocese of Edmonton is a diocese of the Ecclesiastical Province of Rupert's Land of the Anglican Church of Canada. The diocese comprises almost 78,000 square kilometres of the civil Province of Alberta, consisting of a band across the central part of the province, extending to the borders of the adjacent provinces of British Columbia to the west and Saskatchewan to the east. Its See city is Edmonton, and its roughly 77,000 Anglicans are served by 48 parishes and 61 congregations.
The diocese was established in 1913 when it was divided from the Diocese of Calgary (which in turn had been divided from the Diocese of Saskatchewan in 1888). The following year, the diocese was incorporated by the Alberta legislature.
Edmonton is the major city within the diocese. Other communities are a mix of small, rural centres and suburban bedroom communities of the capital.
The current Bishop, Dr. Jane Alexander, was installed on May 11, 2008. She formerly served as the Dean of All Saints' Cathedral.
A lay order, the Company of the Cross ran the Saint John's School of Alberta which closed in 2008. It is not presently clear as to the extent of the relationship with this lay order. In the past, the school and order were specifically under the control of the diocese and bishop.[1]
Bishops of Edmonton
Honorific & Name Dates 1st The Rt Rev H. A. Gray 1914–1931 2nd The Rt Rev A. E. Burget 1932–1940 3rd The Most Rev Walter Barfoot 1941–1954 4th The Most Rev Howard H. Clark 1954–1961 5th The Rt Rev W. Gerald Burch 1962–1976 6th The Rt Rev J. A. Langstone 1976–1979 7th The Rt Rev E. K. Clarke 1980–1987 8th The Rt Rev Ken L. Genge 1988–1996 9th The Rt Rev Victoria Matthews 1997–2007 10th The Rt Rev Dr. Jane Alexander 2008–Present References
- ^ Company of the Cross (1971). "St. John's/Company of the Cross Annual Report". "In legal fact the company is two companies, each operated under the auspices of an Anglican bishop, one in Manitoba under the bishop of Rupert’s Land, the other in Alberta under the bishop of Edmonton. Since the bishops renew the members in the company’s service annually, they could presumably dissolve the company by refusing to admit new members.... Each time the one of the company’s activities raises public question or controversy ... the bishops find themselves assailed with the same questions: Are these people part of the church, or are they not, and if they are what controls does the church have over them?"
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