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List of dioceses of the Anglican Church of Canada
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The Anglican Church of Canada, an independent province of the worldwide Anglican Communion, contains thirty dioceses organised into four ecclesiastical provinces (not to be confused, though they often are, with the ACC itself as a "province" of the Anglican Communion, particularly as one of the ACC's four provinces is itself the ecclesiastical province of "Canada," covering eastern Quebec, the Maritime Provinces and Newfoundland.) One of these dioceses, Cariboo, is presently inactive and its parishes are overseen by a suffragan bishop of the Metropolitan of the Ecclesiastical Province of British Columbia and the Yukon.
All but five dioceses are contiguous with a single civil province or territory. The exceptions are the Arctic, Keewatin, Moosonee, Ottawa, and Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island.
Each diocese has a bishop, four of whom are archbishops serving as metropolitans of their ecclesiastical province. Dioceses are self-governing entities, incorporated under the Corporations Act of the civil province or territory in which they are active. Dioceses generally meet annually, and have responsibility for all aspects of Church life, except that which concerns doctrine, discipline, or worship. These matters are the purview of the General Synod of the national Church, which meets trienially, and at other times delegates its powers to an elected body of clergy and laity, called the Council of General Synod and to the Primate of the Anglican Church of Canada.
| Diocese | Province | Territory | Cathedral | See City | Bishop | Founded |
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| Algoma (Bishop of Algoma) |
Ontario | Ontario | St. Luke's Cathedral | Sault Ste. Marie | The Right Rev. Ronald C. Ferris | 1873 |
| Arctic (Bishop of the Arctic) |
Rupert's Land | Northwest Territories and Nunavut | St. Jude's Cathedral | Iqaluit, NU | The Right Rev. Andrew Atagotaaluk | 1933 |
| Athabasca (Bishop of Athabasca) |
Rupert's Land | Alberta | St. James' Cathedral | Peace River | The Most Rev. John R. Clarke | 1876 |
| Brandon (Bishop of Brandon) |
Rupert's Land | Manitoba | St. Matthew's Cathedral | Brandon | The Right Rev. James Njegovan | 1913 |
| British Columbia (Bishop of British Columbia) |
British Columbia and the Yukon | British Columbia | Christ Church Cathedral | Victoria | The Right Rev. James A.J. Cowan | 1875 |
| Caledonia (Bishop of Caledonia) |
British Columbia and the Yukon | British Columbia | St. Andrew's Cathedral | Prince Rupert | The Right Rev. William J. Anderson | 1879 |
| Calgary (Bishop of Calgary) |
Rupert's Land | Alberta | Cathedral Church of the Redeemer | Calgary | The Right Rev. Derek B. E. Hoskin | 1888 |
| Cariboo (Bishop of Cariboo)1 |
British Columbia and the Yukon | British Columbia | St. Paul's Cathedral | Kamloops | The Right Rev. Gordon Light, Suffragan to the Metropolitan | 1914 |
| Central Newfoundland (Bishop of Central Newfoundland) |
Canada | Newfoundland and Labrador | St. Martin's Cathedral | Gander | The Right Rev. David Torraville | 1976 |
| Eastern Newfoundland and Labrador (Bishop of Eastern Newfoundland and Labrador) |
Canada | Newfoundland and Labrador | Cathedral Church of St. John the Baptist | St. John's | The Right Rev. Cyrus Pitman | 1976 (succeeding old Diocese of Newfoundland, founded 1839) |
| Edmonton (Edmonton) |
Rupert's Land | Alberta | All Saints' Cathedral | Edmonton | The Right Rev. Victoria Matthews | 1913 |
| Fredericton (Bishop of Fredericton) |
Canada | New Brunswick | Christ Church Cathedral | Fredericton | The Right Rev. Claude Miller | 1845 |
| Huron (Bishop of Huron) |
Ontario | Ontario | St. Paul's Cathedral | London | The Right Rev. Bruce H.W. Howe | 1857 |
| Keewatin (Bishop of Keewatin) |
Rupert's Land | Ontario and Manitoba | St. Alban's Cathedral | Kenora, ON | The Right Rev. David N. Ashdown | 1902 |
| Kootenay (Bishop of Kootenay) |
British Columbia and the Yukon | British Columbia | St. Michael and All Angels Cathedral | Kelowna | The Right Rev. John Privett | 1899 |
| Montreal (Bishop of Montreal) |
Canada | Quebec | Christ Church Cathedral | Montreal | The Right Rev. Barry Clarke | 1850 |
| Moosonee (Bishop of Moosonee) |
Ontario | Ontario and Quebec | St. Matthew's Cathedral | Timmins, ON | The Most Rev. Caleb Lawrence | 1872 |
| New Westminster (Bishop of New Westminster) |
British Columbia and the Yukon | British Columbia | Christ Church Cathedral | Vancouver | The Right Rev. Michael Ingham | 1879 |
| Niagara Bishop of Niagara |
Ontario | Ontario | Christ's Church Cathedral | Hamilton | The Right Rev. Ralph Spence | 1875 |
| Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island (Bishop of Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island) |
Canada | Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island | All Saints' Cathedral | Halifax, NS | The Right Rev. Fred Hiltz | 1787 |
| Ontario (Bishop of Ontario) |
Ontario | Ontario | St. George's Cathedral | Kingston | The Right Rev. George L.R. Bruce | 1862 |
| Ottawa (Bishop of Ottawa) |
Ontario | Ontario and Quebec | Christ Church Cathedral | Ottawa | The Right Rev. Peter R. Coffin | 1896 |
| Qu'Appelle (Bishop of Qu'Appelle) |
Rupert's Land | Saskatchewan | St. Paul's Cathedral | Regina | The Right Rev. Gregory Kerr-Wilson | 1884 |
| Quebec (Bishop of Quebec) |
Canada | Quebec | Cathedral of the Holy Trinity | Quebec City | The Most Rev. Bruce Stavert | 1793 |
| Rupert's Land (Bishop of Rupert's Land) |
Rupert's Land | Manitoba | Cathedral of St. John | Winnipeg | The Right Rev. Donald D. Phillips | 1849 |
| Saskatchewan (Bishop of Saskatchewan) |
Rupert's Land | Saskatchewan | St. Alban's Cathedral | Prince Albert | The Right Rev. Anthony Burton | 1874 |
| Saskatoon (Bishop of Saskatoon |
Rupert's Land | Saskatchewan | St. John's Cathedral | Saskatoon | The Right Rev. Rodney Andrews | 1874 |
| Toronto (Bishop of Toronto) |
Ontario | Ontario | St. James' Cathedral | Toronto | The Right Rev. Colin R. Johnson | 1839 |
| Western Newfoundland (Bishop of Western Newfoundland) |
Canada | Newfoundland and Labrador | Cathedral of St. John the Evangelist | Corner Brook | The Right Rev. Percy Coffin | 1976 |
| Yukon (Bishop of Yukon) |
British Columbia and the Yukon | Yukon Territory | Christ Church Cathedral | Whitehorse | The Most Rev. Terrence O. Buckle | 1891 |
1The Anglican Diocese of Cariboo, rendered insolvent by legal claims arising from abuse that occurred in Church-administered First Nations residential schools, ceased to operate as of 2002. The parishes are currently the pastoral responsibility of the Metropolitan of the ecclesiastical province, and overseen by a suffragan bishop to the Metropolitan.
The four metropolitans are:
- Canada: The Most Rev. Bruce Stavert, Archbishop of Quebec
- Rupert's Land: The Most Rev. John Clarke, Archbishop of Athabasca
- Ontario: The Most Rev. Caleb Lawrence, Archbishop of Moosonee
- British Columbia and the Yukon: The Most Rev. Terrence Buckle, Archbishop of the Yukon
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