Anglican Diocese Of Saskatchewan Synod Office, Prince Albert, SK

The Diocese of Saskatchewan, Canada, serves the northern two-thirds of the civil Province of Saskatchewan--an area about twice the size of Germany. In this area there are 68 scattered Anglican congregations grouped into 35 parishes. Missionary work began formally in the 1850s, and it became a Diocese with its see at Prince Albert in 1874. Its Anglican population is about 23, 000 people, sixty per cent of whom are Cree indians. At least half of these are under the age of 25. The Diocese has 28 active and 15 retired clergy, and 110 lay readers. Half of the active clergy are non-stipendiary. The Suffragan, or Assistant, Bishop, Charles Arthurson, was the first Indigenous person made a bishop in the Anglican Church of Canada. Since 1989 he served half-time as bishop and half-time as Rector of All Saints', La Ronge. In July 2008 Bishop Arthurson retired as Suffragan Bishop, but he continues to serve as Rector of All Saints', La Ronge. The diocese has always been bilingual, English and Cree, and worship here has always been primarily from Cree and English editions of the Book of Common Prayer. Holy Trinity, Stanley Mission, was the diocese's first church. Built in 1854, it is the oldest building in Saskatchewan and the oldest church in Western Canada. The "Anglican Church" is not one thing but many things, and is not organized like a pyramid, the way many businesses are. Read it all .. A great poet once wrote, "Midway this way of life we're bound upon, I woke to find myself in a dark wood, where the right road was wholly lost and gone." Read it all ..