Canada Connection - Diocese of Ontario
image: The Anglican Church of Canada's map of Canadian dioceses and provinces, from anglican.ca (modified to highlight the Diocese of Ontario)
In the week of 14 May 2022 we pray for The Rt. Rev. Michael Oulton, Bishop, and the clergy and people of the Diocese of Ontario.
"The diocese is not coterminous with the Canadian civil Province of Ontario, but rather encompasses approximately 17,700 square kilometres of it, comprising the Counties of Prince Edward, Hastings, Lennox and Addington, Frontenac, and Leeds and Grenville. Apart from Kingston, other major centres included in the diocese are Belleville, Brockville, and Trenton. The diocese ministers to approximately 13,000 Anglicans in forty-two parishes.
" The diocese was founded in 1862, when it was divided from the Diocese of Toronto. The Diocese of Ontario was incorporated by “An Act Respecting The Incorporated Synod of Ontario”. Until 1896 it included the present-day Diocese of Ottawa. Its first bishop, John Travers Lewis, a Church of Ireland cleric, was the first bishop consecrated in Canada rather than England." [source]
The diocese is situated in the traditional territories of the Haudenosaunee, Huron-Wendat, Anishinabewaki, and Algonquin First Nations, and the St. Lawrence Iroquoians. [more]
The diocesan cathedral of St George, built in the late 1820s and elevated to cathedral status in 1862, is in Kingston.
The quarterly diocesan newsletter is the Dialogue.