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A spruce seedling on a black background with a tag that has a picture of a church and reads: "In Celebration of the 150th Anniversary of St. Paul's Anglican Church, Cardinal"

St. Paul’s Spruce Seedlings

December 1, 2022

St. Paul’s Anglican Church in Cardinal hosted Bishop Michael Oulton on a Sunny Sunday morning in early October this year to celebrate the Parishes 150th anniversary. As part of his visit, the bishop offered a prayer of blessing for 50 pine saplings that were handed out to the congregation to commemorate the parish anniversary. The idea came from the bishop himself and his Lambeth call to action in our diocese for all parishes to participate in the Anglican Communion Forest

Young woman holding up a white bishop's mitere.

The Boy Bishop

September 1, 2022

Archives Summer Intern Kelly Goslin reaches into a gray cardboard box and retrieves a cream-coloured bishop’s mitre. Despite its 100+ year old age and slight signs of wear, the mitre is in excellent shape and once belonged to the first bishop in the newly formed Diocese of Ontario, Bishop John Travers Lewis. Lewis’ mitre and other personal artifacts are on display in a new museum style Archives exhibit located at the Diocese of Ontario Synod Office titled: ‘The Boy Bishop’—as

In the foreground a white refugee woman in winter wear holds a baby in a blue fuzzy suit. In the background other refugees and volunteers.

Refugee sponsors needed

June 1, 2022

In March 2020, when COVID-19 was declared a global pandemic, the impact was immediate to refugee sponsorship groups like the Diocese of Ontario Refugee Support (DOORS) and others like it across the country. Temporary travel suspensions were put in place both domestically and overseas. There were delays in processing existing applications. DOORS Refugee Settlement Co-ordinator Mimi Merrill reflects on 2020 as the start of what was already a difficult journey for refugees around the world. COVID-19 only made things worse.

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St. Paul’s Spruce Seedlings

The Boy Bishop

Refugee sponsors needed