The Anglican Church of Canada, a member church of the worldwide Anglican Communion, contains thirty-two jurisdictions, consisting of twenty-nine dioceses, one administrative region with diocesan status, one ordinariate (for military chaplaincy), and one national pastoral jurisdiction (for indigenous people). The 29 dioceses and the special administrative area are organised into four ecclesiastical provinces.
Most dioceses are contained within a single civil province or territory. The four exceptions are the Arctic, Moosonee, Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island, and Ottawa dioceses.
Each diocese has a bishop, four of whom are archbishops as metropolitans of their ecclesiastical province. Dioceses are self-governing entities, incorporated under the Corporations Act of the civil province or territory in which they are active.
Diocesan synods generally meet annually and have responsibility for those aspects of church life which do not concern doctrine, discipline, or worship. These latter matters are the purview of the General Synod of the national church, which meets triennially and at other times delegates its powers to an elected body of clergy and laity, called the Council of General Synod, and to the Primate of the Anglican Church of Canada.
The Anglican Church of Canada is divided into four ecclesiastical provinces, each under the jurisdiction of a provincial synod and a metropolitan archbishop. Originally the metropolitans were bishops of particular dioceses within the provinces. In 1893 the metropolitans were granted the title of "archbishop", and they are now elected from among the bishops of each province.
The Primate of Canada (who has no diocese) bears the title Archbishop and is styled The Most Reverend. The current Primate is Linda Nicholls. The Primate is elected from among all the bishops across the country.
The four metropolitans (who all bear the style of The Most Reverend and the title Archbishop) are:
The National Indigenous Anglican Archbishop has no metropolitical authority, but also bears the style of The Most Reverend and the title Archbishop. The holder of this office (established as a bishopric in 2005, inaugurated in 2007, and raised to the status of an archbishopric in 2019) has the spiritual leadership of indigenous people nationwide. Mark MacDonald, the first holder of the office, resigned in 2022 as a result of sexual misconduct. Nicholls appointed Bishop Sidney Black as interim National Indigenous Bishop.[2] In December of that year, Bishop Chris Harper of Saskatoon was announced as the new archbishop-elect.[3]
| Diocese | Province | Territory | Cathedral | See City | Bishop(s) | Founded | Number of Parishes (2022)[4] | Membership (2022) | Average Sunday Attendance (2022) | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island | Canada | Nova Scotia Prince Edward Island | All Saints' Cathedral St. Peter's Cathedral | Halifax Charlottetown | Sandra Fyfe | 11 August 1787 (Nova Scotia), covering all British North America (the first Church of England diocese outside England) | 94 | 21,892 | 5,126 | |
| Quebec | Canada | Quebec | Cathedral of the Holy Trinity | Quebec City | Bruce Myers | 28 June 1793,[5] from Nova Scotia diocese | 65 | 1,586 | 375 | |
| Eastern Newfoundland and Labrador | Canada | Newfoundland and Labrador | Cathedral Church of St. John the Baptist | St. John's | Samuel Rose | 1839 (Newfoundland), from Nova Scotia diocese[6] | 39 | 21,053 | 1,600 | |
| Toronto | Ontario | Ontario | St. James' Cathedral | Toronto | Andrew Asbil Bishop of York-Scarborough: Kevin Robertson | 1839 (a.k.a. Upper Canada), from Quebec diocese | 178 | 37,646 | 13,810 | |
| Fredericton | Canada | New Brunswick | Christ Church Cathedral | Fredericton | David Edwards | 1845 (a.k.a. New Brunswick), from Nova Scotia diocese | 72 | 9,823 | 2,373 | |
| Rupert's Land | Northern Lights | Manitoba and Ontario | Cathedral of St. John | Winnipeg | Geoffrey Woodcroft | 1849 (originally covering all of what is now the ecclesiastical province), probably from Quebec diocese[7] | 52 | 4,215 | 1,608 | |
| Montreal | Canada | Quebec | Christ Church Cathedral | Montreal | Mary Irwin-Gibson | 1850, from Quebec diocese[8] | 68 | 7,017 | 3,405 | |
| Huron | Ontario | Ontario | St. Paul's Cathedral | London | 1857, from Toronto diocese | 124 | 21,000 | 6,000 | ||
| British Columbia (also known as the diocese of Islands and Inlets) | British Columbia and Yukon | British Columbia | Christ Church Cathedral | Victoria | Anna Greenwood-Lee | 1859,[9] from Rupert's Land diocese | 45 | 4,890 | 2,200 | |
| Ontario | Ontario | Ontario | St. George's Cathedral | Kingston | William Cliff | 1862, from Toronto diocese[10] | 46 | 5,896 | 2,261 | |
| Moosonee | Ontario | Ontario and Quebec | St. Matthew's Cathedral | Timmins, ON | Anne Germond (ex officio) Assisting Bishop: Fred Hiltz | 1872, from Rupert's Land diocese[11] | 21 | 14,219 | 350 | |
| Algoma | Ontario | Ontario | St. Luke's Cathedral | Sault Ste. Marie | Anne Germond | 1873, from Toronto diocese (missionary diocese); 1906 (independence)[12] | 52 | 5,053 | 923 | |
| Athabasca | Northern Lights | Alberta | St. James' Cathedral | Peace River | David Greenwood | 1874, from Rupert's Land diocese | 17 | 896 | 306 | |
| Saskatchewan | Northern Lights | Saskatchewan | St. Alban's Cathedral | Prince Albert | Diocesan Bishop: Richard Reed (bishop-elect) Indigenous Bishop: Adam Halkett | 1874, from Rupert's Land diocese | 22 | 8,417 | 915 | |
| Niagara | Ontario | Ontario | Christ's Church Cathedral | Hamilton | Susan Bell | 1875, from Toronto diocese | 80 | 12,967 | 3,916 | |
| Caledonia | British Columbia and Yukon | British Columbia | St. Andrew's Cathedral | Prince Rupert | David Lehmann | 1879, from BC diocese[13] | 20 | 1,048 | 405 | |
| New Westminster | British Columbia and Yukon | British Columbia | Christ Church Cathedral | Vancouver | John Stephens | 1879, from BC diocese[14] | 63 | 9,952 | 3,296 | |
| Mackenzie River | Rupert's Land[15] | Northwest Territories | St Paul's Pro-Cathedral | Fort Chipewyan | Lapsed in 1933 (territory split between the Yukon and Arctic dioceses) | 1883, from Athabasca diocese[16] | N/A | N/A | N/A | |
| Qu'Appelle | Northern Lights | Saskatchewan | St. Paul's Cathedral | Regina | Helen Kennedy | 1884 (as Assiniboia), from Rupert's Land and Saskatchewan dioceses;[17] name changed later in 1884[18] | 26 | 2,727 | 852 | |
| Calgary | Northern Lights | Alberta | Cathedral Church of the Redeemer | Calgary | Greg Kerr-Wilson | 1888, from Saskatchewan diocese[19] | 67 | 7,523 | 2,496 | |
| Yukon | British Columbia and Yukon | Yukon | Christ Church Cathedral | Whitehorse | Lesley Wheeler-Dame | 1891 (as Selkirk; from Mackenzie River) | 13 | 963 | 122 | |
| Ottawa | Ontario | Ontario and Quebec | Christ Church Cathedral | Ottawa | Shane Parker | 7 April 1896, from Ontario diocese[20] | 68 | 8,809 | 2,277 | |
| Kootenay | British Columbia and Yukon | British Columbia | St. Michael and All Angels Cathedral | Kelowna | Lynne McNaughton | 1899, from New Westminster diocese[21] | 26 | 2,363 | 840 | |
| Keewatin | Northern Lights | Ontario and Manitoba | St. Alban's Cathedral (former) | Kenora, ON | Lapsed in 2015 (territory split between the Moosonee and Mishamikoweesh dioceses) | 1902, from Rupert's Land diocese[22] | N/A | N/A | N/A | |
| Brandon | Northern Lights | Manitoba | St. Matthew's Cathedral | Brandon | Rachael Parker | 1913, from Rupert's Land diocese[23] | 25 | 2,935 | 337 | |
| Edmonton | Northern Lights | Alberta | All Saints' Cathedral | Edmonton | Stephen London | 1913, from Calgary diocese[24] | 44 | 5,912 | 1,417 | |
| British Columbia and Yukon | British Columbia | St. Paul's Cathedral | Kamloops | Ceased operation as at December 31, 2001 | 1914, from New Westminster diocese[25] | N/A | N/A | N/A | ||
| Northern Lights | Northwest Territories and Nunavut | St. Jude's Cathedral | Iqaluit, NU | Diocesan: David ParsonsSuffragan: Joey Royal, Annie Ittoshat, Lucy Netser | 1933, from Mackenzie River diocese and parts of Moosonee and Keewatin dioceses[26] | 48 | 33,889 | 1,808 | ||
| Saskatoon | Northern Lights | Saskatchewan | St. John's Cathedral | Saskatoon | Vacant | 1933, from Saskatchewan diocese | 19 | 1,500 | 525 | |
| Central Newfoundland | Canada | Newfoundland and Labrador | St. Martin's Cathedral | Gander | John Watton | 1976, from Newfoundland diocese | 27 | 9,375 | 2,642 | |
| Western Newfoundland | Canada | Newfoundland and Labrador | Cathedral of St. John the Evangelist | Corner Brook | John Organ | 1976, from Newfoundland diocese | 30 | 16,360 | 1,394 | |
| Northern Lights | Ontario and Manitoba | none designated | Kingfisher Lake | Lydia Mamakwa | 2014, from Keewatin diocese | 28 | 14,000 | 900 | ||
| British Columbia and Yukon | British Columbia | St. Paul's Cathedral | Kamloops | Clara Plamondon | 2015 ("recognized territory" status) 2002 (closure of Cariboo diocese) | 19 | 1,005 | 295 | ||
| NA | Extra-Territorial | Christ Church Cathedral | Ottawa | Nigel Shaw | 1939[27] | N/A | N/A | N/A |