Big move.The College of Emmanuel and St. Chad, an Anglican seminary seminary Educational institution, usually for training in theology. In the U.S. the term was formerly also used to refer to institutions of higher learning for women, often teachers' colleges. in Saskatoon Saskatoon (săskət  n`), city (1991 pop. 186,058), S central Sask., Canada, on the South Saskatchewan River. , on August 8 moved to share quarters with Lutheran Theological Seminary There are multiple institutions known as Lutheran Theological Seminaries in the world.
The move is part of the college's long-term plan for financial stability, said Principal Walter Deller. "Our existing buildings are expensive to operate and maintain. This allows us to reduce our expenses and also find ways to collaborate and work more closely together," he said in a statement. The college's building is situated prominently at the university's main entrance and the college is negotiating its sale to the university. Emmanuel and St. Chad will maintain offices and classrooms at the Lutheran seminary. Last April, Emmanuel and St. Chad announced that it planned to close. An $8.5 million fundraising campaign, announced in October 2004, had attracted $900,000 by last spring. However, two donors permitted their combined gifts of $600,000 to be redirected to the college's operations, a move that allowed the college to withdraw the closing notice. In 2001, the Anglican Church of Canada and the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada The Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada (ELCIC) (French: Eglise Evangelique Lutherienne au Canada) is Canada's largest Lutheran denomination, with 182,077 baptized members in 624 congregations. signed an agreement called Full Communion Full communion is a term used in Christian ecclesiology to describe relations between two distinct Christian communities or Churches that, while maintaining some separateness of identity, recognise each other as sharing the same communion and the same essential doctrines. that committed the two national churches to a closer relationship. |
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