New metropolitan.Bishop John Clarke John Clarke may be:
There are four ecclesiastical (church) provinces in the Anglican Church of Canada, each led by a metropolitan who is also a diocesan bishop A bishop in charge of a diocese. These are to be distinguished from suffragan bishops, assistant bishops, coadjutor bishops, Auxiliary Bishops, or metropolitans or primates. . The province of Rupert's Land comprises the dioceses of the Arctic, Athabasca, Calgary, Brandon, Edmonton, Saskatchewan, Saskatoon Saskatoon (săskət  n`), city (1991 pop. 186,058), S central Sask., Canada, on the South Saskatchewan River. , Qu'Appelle, Rupert's Land and Keewatin. Bishop Clarke, who is 65, was elected diocesan bishop in 1991 and is also chair of the Council of the North, a committee of bishops of 11 northern dioceses that receive support grants from the national church. Consecrated con·se·crate tr.v. con·se·crat·ed, con·se·crat·ing, con·se·crates 1. To declare or set apart as sacred: consecrate a church. 2. Christianity a. deacon in 1963, Bishop Clarke served as a parish priest in the dioceses of Toronto, Niagara and Huron before arriving in Athabasca, which occupies the northern third of Alberta. Prior to his election as bishop, he was the diocese's executive archdeacon. |
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