Английская Википедия:Helen Kennedy (bishop)

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Helen Jane Kennedy (born 1968) is a bishop of the Anglican Church of Canada. She is the current bishop of the Diocese of Qu'Appelle in southern Saskatchewan.

Biography

Kennedy was born in 1968 in Nuneaton, Warwickshire, England.[1][2] She worked as an ambulance driver and first responder in England,[3] before immigrating to Canada in 1999. From 2000 to 2001, she was a Winnipeg-based field staff for Youth for Christ.[1] From 2001 to 2005, she was Youth for Christ's ministry director in Selkirk, Manitoba.[1]

Ordained ministry

Kennedy studied at the University of Winnipeg, graduating with a Bachelor of Theology (BTh) degree in 2007.[1] She was ordained in the Anglican Church of Canada as a deacon in 2007 for the Diocese of Rupert's Land and as a priest in 2008.[1][4] After ordination, she served as a part-time diocesan youth minister and part-time in the parish of St George's Anglican Church, Transcona, Winnipeg.[4] She became the full-time rector of St George's Anglican Church in 2010.[4]

After the retirement of Robert Hardwick as Bishop of Qu'Appelle, Kennedy was elected bishop at the diocesan synod on 17 October 2021.[5] She was consecrated a bishop on 22 January 2022 during a service at St. Paul's Cathedral, Regina, Saskatchewan.[6] The principal consecrator was Archbishop Greg Kerr-Wilson, Metropolitan of Rupert's Land.[5][6]

She would vote to amend the Anglican marriage canon to support same sex marriage.[3]

References

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