Kairos names Primate's fund director to board.Andrew Ignatieff, executive director of the Primate's World Relief and Development Fund, the Anglican Church of Canada's disaster relief and economic development agency, was named to the executive committee of the board of directors of Kairos Kairos (καιρός) is an ancient Greek word meaning the "right or opportune moment". The ancient Greeks had two words for time, chronos and kairos. , the Canadian Canadian (kənā`dēən), river, 906 mi (1,458 km) long, rising in NE New Mexico. and flowing E across N Texas and central Oklahoma into the Arkansas River in E Oklahoma. ecumenical social-justice organization. Mr. Ignatieff will hold the title of secretary. Others named recently to the executive committee were: chair, Paul Hansen Han·sen , Gerhard Henrik Armauer 1746-1845. Norwegian physician and bacteriologist who discovered (1869) the leprosy bacillus. , Canadian Religious Conference; vice chair, Joe Gunn, Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops; treasurer, Richard Chambers, United Church of Canada United Church of Canada, Protestant denomination formed in 1925 by the union of the Methodist, Congregational, and Presbyterian churches in Canada. A large number of Presbyterian congregations, however, remain outside the union. ; member-at-large, Anne O'Brien, Canadian Religious Conference; past chair, Jane Orion Smith, Religious Society of Friends. |
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