DECONSECRATION
Bishop Townshend will preside at a service of Deconsecration for St. John’s Church, 51 McCutcheon Dr., Brussels ON at 3pm on Sunday, April 30, 2023.
All are welcome to come to support the congregation. Clergy are invited to vest, the colour being white.
RETIREMENT
Bishop Townshend has accepted the request of the Reverend Canon Linda Nixon to retire as rector of St. James, Cambridge effective August 1, 2023. Canon Linda’s last Sunday in the parish will be July 2, 2023.
Canon Linda was ordained a deacon in May of 2005 and priested in December of that year. She has served the parishes of Church of the Ascension, Paisley, Holy Trinity, Chesley and Christ Church Tara, as well as St. James, Cambridge. Canon Linda has served on Diocesan Council, the Children’s Festival Committee, the Nominating Committee, the Social and Ecological Justice Committee (formerly Enviroaction Committee), the Justice League, the Parish Services Commitee, the Stewardship Committee and as the Regional Dean of both Waterloo and the Saugeens. She was named a Canon of the Cathedral on May 16, 2010.
We give thanks for Canon Linda’s ministry and wish her well in her retirement.
APPOINTMENT
Bishop Townshend appoints the Reverend Michael Bruce as the rector of St. James’ Westminster, London effective August 15, 2023. Michael comes to Huron from the Diocese of Qu’Appelle where he is the Diocesan Youth and Family Developer and the Incumbent of the Parish of Lumsden, Pence, and Canal.
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