Buckle elected metropolitan of B.C. and the Yukon.Electors electors, in the history of the Holy Roman Empire, the princes who had the right to elect the German kings or, more exactly, the kings of the Romans (Holy Roman emperors). in the ecclesiastical (church) province of British Columbia British Columbia, province (2001 pop. 3,907,738), 366,255 sq mi (948,600 sq km), including 6,976 sq mi (18,068 sq km) of water surface, W Canada. Geography and the Yukon, meeting on Nov. 4 in Richmond, B.C., chose Bishop Terrence Buckle of the diocese of the Yukon as metropolitan, or provincial archbishop. Three bishops stood for election: Michael Ingham
The Right Reverend Michael Ingham (born 1949 in Yorkshire) is a bishop and theologian. of the Vancouver-based diocese of New Westminster New Westminster, city (1991 pop. 43,585), SW British Columbia, Canada, on the Fraser River, part of metropolitan Vancouver. Founded in 1859 as Queensborough, it was the capital of British Columbia until Victoria was made capital after the union of British Columbia , James Cowan of the Victoria-based diocese of British Columbia and Bishop Buckle, who was elected after three ballots. There were 21 electors: members of the provincial executive council and the province's bishops. Archbishop Buckle, 64, had been acting metropolitan since the retirement last year of Archbishop David Crawley. He was installed as metropolitan on Nov. 5 at St. Anne's church St. Anne's Church (or variations on this name) may refer to :
Metropolitans have the power to discipline bishops in their area. In recent years, Archbishop Buckle and Bishop Ingham have clashed over the issue of same-sex blessings. After New Westminster voted in 2002 to allow such ceremonies, dissenting parishes asked Bishop Buckle, a theological conservative, to come into the diocese to perform such episcopal acts as confirmations. Bishop Ingham barred him from visiting parishes in the diocese and Bishop Buckle was threatened with disciplinary action from then-metropolitan Archbishop Crawley. However, subsequently, Bishop Buckle agreed not to intervene in New Westminster and relationships among the bishops have improved. The province of British Columbia and the Yukon, one of four in the Canadian church, includes the dioceses of Yukon, New Westminster, British Columbia “New Westminster” redirects here. For other uses, see New Westminster (disambiguation). New Westminster is an historically important city in the Greater Vancouver region of British Columbia, Canada. , Kootenay, Caledonia and the parishes of the Central Interior, which were formerly known as the diocese of Cariboo. |
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