“Bishop Paul was a real servant, a gentle and kind man with a good sense of humor,” said Joey Royal, himself once a suffragan bishop in the Arctic.
Church lawyers are negotiating to leave an unauthorized $8 million lease for its Toronto headquarters, and its 2026 budget is 6 percent smaller as decline continues.
The inability to discipline the bishop reveals the perils of an outdated canonical system and a shrinking institution’s lack of capacity. Without reform, we will see more cases like this.
Governance of the top-heavy but financially depleted Anglican Church of Canada has become a priority because the church is one-quarter of its former size and shrinking.
“We must focus on addressing the urgent need for major changes in our national structure, operations, and culture,” said Shane Parker, who led a restructuring of the Diocese of Ottawa.
Alexander Pryor, an organ scholar who likes to hunt grouse and ptarmigan, study systematic theology, and fish has been consecrated as the seventh Bishop of the Arctic.
