Sisters choose leader.Oakville, Ont. The Community of the Sisters of the Church The Community of the Sister of the Church is a community of women in various Anglican provinces who live the vowed life of poverty, chastity and obedience. The Community was founded by Mother Emily Ayckbowm in 1870 as the Church Extension Association. , an international Anglican women's order based in England, recently installed a repatriated Canadian as its sister provincial for the order in Canada. Sr. Marguerite May, who in recent years has worked full time as a librarian in the public school system in England, was elected last March to head the Canadian community of eight women after the retirement of her predecessor, Sr. Michael, who had served two three-year terms. Sr. Marguerite joined the community in 1977, went to England as a novice in 1980 and professed her vows in 1985. A graduate of Trinity College Trinity College, Ireland: see Dublin, Univ. of. Trinity College Private liberal arts college in Hartford, Conn., founded in 1823. It is historically affiliated with the Episcopal church, though its curriculum is nonsectarian. , Toronto, she holds a master's degree master's degree n. An academic degree conferred by a college or university upon those who complete at least one year of prescribed study beyond the bachelor's degree. Noun 1. in library science. The installation ceremony took place Sept. 27 in the chapel of the convent in Oakville, Ont., a suburb of Toronto. Bishop Ralph Spence of the diocese of Niagara (the home diocese of the convent) officiated and Rev. Maylanne Maybee, a Toronto deacon, preached. The community also marked the 60-year anniversary of the profession of Sr. Mary Adella, a member of the Sisters of the Church who lives in a care facility run by another Toronto religious order, the Sisterhood of St. John the Divine The Sisterhood of St. John the Divine is a religious community of nuns in the Anglican Church of Canada. Founded in Toronto in 1884 by Mother Hannah Grier Coome, the order ministers at St. . The Community of the Sisters of the Church has about 95 nuns in Canada, England, Australia and the Solomon Islands Solomon Islands, independent Commonwealth nation (2005 est. pop. 538,000), c.15,500 sq mi (40,150 sq km), SW Pacific, E of New Guinea. The islands that constitute the nation of the Solomon Islands—Guadalcanal, Malaita, New Georgia, the Santa Cruz Islands, . More than half the sisters are in the Solomons in the South Pacific. |
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