BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:icalendar-ruby CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261008T195835Z UID:854-1414013@bc.anglican.ca DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20261124 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20261125 CLASS:PUBLIC CREATED:20261008T095744 DESCRIPTION:\nReminder! Registration for this event will close Monday\, Oct ober 12th. \n\nRegistration\nProgram\nBursaries and funding\nAccommodatio n\nSpeakers\nVolunteering\n\nThe Anglican Diocese of Islands and Inlets (B ritish Columbia) is excited to invite you to be part of a celebration of t he 50th Anniversary of the Priesting of Women in the Anglican Church of Ca nada. Come and join us as we give thanks for the many ways women have cont ributed to the life of the Church as presbyters and look to the future to examine the challenges that lay ahead for women in the Church and Canadian society.\nWe look forward to welcoming you to Vancouver Island later this year!\nDates: November 24-25\, 2026 \nLocation: Christ Church Cathedral at 930 Burdett Ave.\, Victoria.\nRegistration\nRegistration is now open. P lease click HERE to complete the form. Registration for this event will cl ose October 12\, 2026.\nThere is no longer a cap on the number of registra nts. We look forward to welcoming anyone who would like to be a part of th is exciting event. \nThe registration fee is $210.00. Participants are re sponsible for making all their own travel and hotel arrangements. This inc ludes transportation into Victoria from the airport. We will create a Face book page where people can connect to arrange carpooling. \nProgram\nThe event will officially begin at 8:30am on Tuesday\, November 24 at Christ C hurch Cathedral.\nIt will officially end with the celebratory Eucharist at Christ Church Cathedral on Wednesday\, November 25. The service will star t at 4pm and will be livestreamed.\nMore details about the program and the service will be shared soon. \nBursaries and funding\nThe bursary applic ation process is now closed.\nAccommodation \nWe have negotiated corporat e rates with three hotels in the city. Please note that these rates may ch ange before the event. Please call and let the hotel know that you want th e corporate rate negotiated by the Diocese of British Columbia for the nig hts associated with the event (23\, 24\, 25 November 2026). The hotels are :\n\nInn at Laurel Point: starting at $184/night+tax. The Inn is on Victor ia’s beautiful Inner Harbour. It is approx. a half hour walk to the conf erence venue. (www.laurelpoint.com) Please reference the 50th Anniversary rate when booking. You can call 1-800-663-7667 or email reservations@laure lpointinn.com to book.\nBest Western Plus Carlton Plaza Hotel: starting at $155/night+taxes and fees. The BW is in downtown Victoria. Approx. 10-min ute walk to the venue. (www.bestwesterncarltonplazahotel.com). Please note : if you want to book the Best Western\, you must use THIS LINK. The front desk staff will not have this information! They have offered a variety of rooms including a suite with a kitchenette. The link will work until Octo ber 23\, 2026.\nQuality Inn Downtown Inner Harbour: $140/night+tax. The Qu ality Inn is in downtown Victoria and approx. a 15-minute walk to the venu e. (www.choicehotels.com/en-uk/british-columbia/victoria/quality-inn-hotel s/cn376)\n\nSpeakers\nPatti Brace\n\nPatti is the rector of the Parish of Mahone Bay\, a semi-rural mul ti-point parish in the South Shore region of the Diocese of Nova Scotia an d Prince Edward Island\, and chancellor of Thorneloe University\, an Angli can theological college in Sudbury\, Ontario. \nWhile fairly recently ord ained (deacon 2018\, priest 2019)\, she remembers the excitement of the fi rst ordinations of women in Canada and the first in her home diocese of Ni agara. While her own sense of call emerged toward the end of high school\, she didn’t quite know what to do with it and headed down the path of ac ademia\, earning a BA in English at Trent University\, followed by an MA a nd a PhD from Queen’s.\nShe taught early modern literature at Laurentian University in Sudbury for 20 years and did research on sixteenth-century English women writers and the London print market. It was during a sabbati cal in 2012-13 that God’s call returned very insistently and\, having ta ken a number of theology courses from Thorneloe “for fun\,” she began seminary at the Faculty of Divinity at Trinity College\, Toronto\, while t eaching and raising a teen-aged son.\nAfter ordination in the diocese of A lgoma\, she served as deacon associate at Christ Church\, Lively and St. J ohn the Divine\, Copper Cliff (2018-19) and then as interim at St. Mary\, Nipigon\, where she discovered a love of small-town ministry. She\, her do g\, and two cats moved to Nova Scotia in late 2021. Patti enjoys choral si nging\, cycling\, camping\, and playing the fiddle (as yet) ineptly.\nChri stine Burton\n\nCh ristine’s high school guidance councillor says she first talked about a call to ministry in her teens. Instead\, Christine completed degrees in po litical science (University of Regina)\, law (University of Saskatchewan)\ , and public administration (Harvard Kennedy School)\, and worked in publi c service before finally allowing the Lord to ‘seduce’ her. Christine says ‘Jonah spent three days in the belly of the whale\; I spent 20 year s…’\nShe undertook an MDiv at University St. Paul\, Ottawa while worki ng\, completing it after a move to Regina to care for aging parents\, arri ving just six weeks before the Covid-19 shut down. She was ordained transi tional deacon in May 2023 and priest in November 2023.  \nAfter a curacy at St. Paul's Cathedral\, Regina (Diocese of Qu’Appelle)\, she was appoi nted halftime at All Saints\, Weyburn. This allows her to serve at a range of smaller parishes and chapels\, the diocesan camp\, Vacation Bible Scho ol and faith-based PD day care events. She is chair of the diocesan stewar dship committee and the regional ecumenical stewardship group\, and a memb er of the diocesan legislation committee. Her pink hair\, originally a ‘ nazarite vow\,’ has become a bit of a signature look that is also a usef ul ice breaker.\nJacqui Durand\n\nJacqui is a First Nations Cree woman\, born in Manitoba. She grew up in Winnipeg\, but her father’s family is from the original St. Peter ’s Indian Settlement on the banks of the Red River in East Selkirk\, and their home reserve is Peguis First Nation. Her mother’s family is of Eu ropean descent. She did not grow up with her traditional teachings or lang uage\, especially after her Cree-speaking great-grandmother passed. Over t he past ten years\, Jacqui has reconnected with her family in Manitoba and with her heritage and culture.  \nJacqui trained as a priest through her lay ministry and subsequent curacy in a three-point rural Anglican parish \, received her master's in leadership and ministry from Ambrose Seminary in Calgary\, and studied simultaneously in the Indigenous studies program at the Vancouver School of Theology.  \nJacqui was ordained as a deacon i n 2019\, as a priest in 2020\, and collated as the Archdeacon for Indigeno us Ministries\, Treaty 7 Territory\, Diocese of Calgary in 2022. Her role as archdeacon is to oversee the four Indigenous Anglican parishes: St. Joh n the Divine\, Siksika\; St. Barnabus\, Tsuu’t’ina\; St. Paul\, Kainai \; and St. Cyprian\, Piikani. Jacqui is the incumbent for St. Paul and St. Cyprian. As part of her role\, she also collaborates with her Indigenous Minister colleague on a variety of reconciliation initiatives and conversa tions. \nNationally\, Jacqui was elected to the Anglican Council of Indig enous Peoples at the Sacred Circle gathering last year for a three-year te rm.  \nLaurel Dykstra\n\nLaurel Dykstra grew up as a member of St. Barnabas parish in the Dioce se of Islands and Inlets. They spent many years in voluntary service in fa ith-based movements and communities for social and ecological justice: L ’Arche\, Catholic Worker\, Radical Discipleship.  \nThey studied biolo gy and gender studies at the University of Victoria\, feminist biblical he rmeneutics at Episcopal Divinity School and Anglican theology and liturgy at Toronto School of Theology.  \nAs a curate they helped prepare parishe s in the Diocese of New Westminster to participate in the Truth and Reconc iliation Commission on Indian Residential Schools. They are gathering prie st and founder of Salal + Cedar Watershed Discipleship community\, a 10-ye ar-old eco-justice church-plant that worships out-of-doors on Coast Salish Territory. Laurel has written several books and many articles about the i ntersections of faith\, justice\, queerness and how the land teaches and m entors us. \nAlison Falby\n\nAlison is the incumbent at Christ Church Deer Park in midtown Toronto. Previously\, she served for six and a half years as the priest-director an d incumbent at All Saints Church Community Centre in Moss Park\, a Toronto neighbourhood affected disproportionately by the homelessness and opioid crises. In that role\, she oversaw services used by people experiencing ho melessness and was an outspoken advocate for them in the news media\, at p ublic events and through presentations to elected officials. She kept the church’s weekday drop-in open during the COVID-19 pandemic as a vital pu blic health service. \nAlison was ordained priest in 2012\, and graduated with her M.Div. from Trinity College\, Toronto\, in 2011. Before her call to the priesthood\, Alison was an Assistant Professor of History. She hold s a D.Phil from Oxford and a B.A from McGill.\nWendy Fletcher\n\nWendy was raised as a cradle An glican in southern Ontario. She was ordained in the Diocese of Niagara in 1988 by Archbishop John Bothwell\, who had a vision for the concept of wor ker priests: priests ordained to serve in contexts outside of the church. \nWendy was ordained to serve in higher education. She has spent her entir e career in the university sector: first as a professor at Huron Universit y for 10 years. She was made a Canon of St. Paul’s Cathedral in the Dioc ese of Huron during that time. From 2000 she served in positions of senior academic leadership at VST for 14 years (UBC) and most recently in senior administration for 10 years at Renison University College. \nThose years in academia provided her the opportunity to travel widely and engage in in tercultural work and conversations across many diverse spaces. Currently s he serves at Renison as President Emerita\, Professor of Religious Studies and History\, and as Director of the Centre for Interreligious Spirituali ty and Wisdom Practices. As well as her work as researcher\, teacher and l eader Wendy is an artist\, and wife\, mother\, and grandmother.\nLeslie Fl ynn\n\nRever end Leslie Flynn is a lifelong Anglican who grew up in Victoria\, BC\, on the lands of the Lekwungen peoples. She has a BA in Psychology with a mino r in Human Services from Trinity Western University and a Masters of Divin ity from Vancouver School of Theology. \nIn her previous life Rev. Leslie worked as front-line staff in supportive housing and as a coordinator of children\, youth and young adult ministry. She currently serves at St. Phi lip Cedar\, a lively parish located in Nanaimo on Vancouver Island.  \nRe v. Leslie is passionate about creating spaces to encounter God's love\, th rough liturgy\, the sacraments\, intergenerational community and discoveri ng the scriptures in new and exciting ways. During her time off you will f ind her reading a good book\, at the swimming pool or playing board games.  \nJordan Haynie Ware\n\nThe Ven. Jordan Haynie Ware serves as Archdeacon of Justice in the Diocese of Edmonton and Rector of Good Shepherd Anglican Church. Jordan came to Cana da nine years ago from The Episcopal Church\, where she was among the firs t class of women ordained in what was formerly known as the Diocese of For t Worth. She's the author of The Ultimate Quest: A Geek’s Guide to (th e Episcopal) Church\, co-creator of the Two Feminists series of podcasts\, and a recent contestant on Jeopardy!  \nJordan’s core belief is that the work of justice is the work of pastoral care. It is her pastoral resp onsibility to demand that the world respect the children with disabilities \, the immigrant teens and the Indigenous Elders who make up the multicult ural congregation she serves. Some of her proudest ministry has been co-fo unding Faith Spaces | Safe Spaces\, an interfaith anti-racism project\, an d connecting with the next generation of women who wrote in to her podcast \, Two Feminists Annotate the Bible. \nJordan holds degrees from Yale Div inity School and the University of Texas at Austin\, as well as a certific ate in Nonprofit Executive Management from Georgetown. She lives in Amiskw aciwâskahikan / ᐊᒥᐢᑲᐧᒋᐋᐧᐢᑲᐦᐃᑲᐣ on Treaty 6 territory with her husband and their retired racing greyhound. \nGerlyn Henry\n\nThe Rev. Gerlyn H enry is a priest and content creator in the Anglican Diocese of Toronto. A s the incumbent of the Church of the Holy Wisdom in Scarborough\, she has combined a local parish ministry with an ongoing global conversation on fa ith\, justice\, solidarity\, and ministry. \n \nNamed by Sojourners maga zine as one of the 10 Christian Women Shaping the Church in 2026\, Gerlyn is a Preaching Justice Fellow and the co-host of the Two Priests and Pales tine limited series podcast. In the Anglican Diocese of Toronto\, she is t he co-chair of the right relations committee as well as an anti-racism fac ilitator. With over 500\,000 followers online\, her voice is a clarion cal l for reflecting on faith's place in daily life. \n \nRev. Gerlyn has be en featured recently on Canadian Public Broadcasting\, in People magazine and the Toronto Star\, in addition to appearing as a guest on over 10 podc asts in the past year. Earlier this year\, Gerlyn signed with The Bindery Agency to publish her first book in 2027. When she isn't at the pulpit or on camera\, she is navigating the beautiful\, messy intersection of politi cs and faith. \nVictoria Matthews  \n\nVictoria grew up in an Anglican non-church-goin g family. They knew the Anglican church was the one they did not attend. T hat meant infant baptism and no Sunday school or church attendance. Howeve r\, 13 years of attendance at an Anglican school introduced her to the Chr istian faith. She remembers she loved the Chapel and religious studies cla sses\, which wasn't universal.   \nThe first ordinations of women to the priesthood in Canada were celebrated when Victoria was in her first year at Yale Divinity School (thanks to a North American Theological Scholarshi p via the Lily Foundation). Her first attendance at a Eucharist celebrated by a female priest also occurred at Yale. She remembers not sleeping the night before because of a mixture of excitement and fear. \nDeaconed in 1 979 and priested in 1980 in the Diocese of Toronto\, she was elected in 19 93 to be an Area Bishop for Toronto. The consecration was February 12\, 19 94.  This was a first for Canada and the fifth episcopal consecration of a woman in the Anglican Communion. Subsequently\, she served as Diocesan o f Edmonton (1997 to 2007)\; Bishop in Residence at Wycliffe College\, Toro nto (2008) and Diocesan Bishop of Christchurch in Aotearoa\, New Zealand ( 2008-2018).   \nSince returning to Canada\, she has assisted the Diocese s of Edmonton\, Algoma and Moosonee\, and is now back in Algoma. Victoria gives thanks to God in Christ and the Anglican Communion for the challenge s and blessings of a rich and varied ordained ministry. \nEarly in life\, Elizabeth wanted to work for Parks Canada and completed a five-year fores try degree. From there\, she became the Executive Director of the Nova Sco tia Forestry Association\, with a fondness for Smokey Bear. \nElizabeth N orthcott\n\ nFor Elizabeth\, the Anglican Church was always "home" and so she ventured into theological studies in Montreal\, graduated in 1991 and was the seco nd woman to be ordained in 1991 in the Diocese of Fredericton. She began a s curate at Christ Church Cathedral in Fredericton with the Very Rev. John Wright and three years later became the chaplain at RCS/Netherwood. In he r second year of chaplaincy\, she was appointed to a two-point parish in E ast Saint John. \nWanting to spend more time with her aging parents\, Eli zabeth moved to Vancouver. She enjoyed eleven years as an Associate Priest at St. Mary's in Kerrisdale. She also served on diocesan council in New W estminster. She had the privilege of serving on the Anglican Foundation wi th Primate Fred Hiltz. \nThe draw of grandchildren is a great incentive f or change. When the opportunity arose to apply for the incumbency of St. M ark in Qualicum Beach\, Elizabeth responded quickly. Here\, in the Diocese of BC she has served as the Archdeacon of the northern parishes. She has built a home here with her spouse\, Susan\, for the last nine years\, with grandchildren living nearby. \nCheryl Palmer\n\nThe Venerable Cheryl Palmer is Archdeacon of the South Deaneries o f the Diocese of Toronto. She retired in 2024 from full-time parish minist ry but continues her active archidiaconal ministry. Prior to her retiremen t\, Archdeacon Palmer was Rector of Christ Church Deer Park in mid-town To ronto. Before joining the Christ Church community in January 2018\, she wa s Director of Cemetery Ministries at St. John’s Norway in the Beach (201 2-2017)\, and Associate Priest and later Rector for a combined sixteen yea rs at St. Clement’s Anglican Church in North Toronto (1996-2012). In pre vious years\, Cheryl also served asthe Anglican Chaplain at the Hospital f or Sick Children (1990-1995)\, Associate Priest at St Stephen's\, Downsvie w (1987-1990)\, and Curate at St John's Church\, Ancaster in the Diocese o f Niagara (1985-1987). Cheryl received her undergraduate arts degree from Queen’s University and her Master of Divinity from Trinity College\, Uni versity of Toronto.\nBorn in Jamaica\, Cheryl Palmer moved to Canada with her family in 1975. Though she was ordained deacon (1985) and priest (1986 ) in the Diocese of Niagara\, most of her priestly ministry has been serve d in the Diocese of Toronto. She is married to Danylo Dzwonyk.\nHana Scorr ar\n\nRev. Hana Scorrar grew up in a small Anglican parish outside of Windsor\, ON. She was deaconed in May 201 9 and priested December 2019 in the Diocese of Huron. She has served on va rious Diocesan committees\, including Social Justice Huron and Bridge Buil ders\, a committee dedicated to the TRC. She is currently the co-chair of Proud Anglicans – Diocese of Huron\, the Diocese’s LGBTQ+ ministry\, a nd the Director of Camp Wendake\, a ministry providing a weeklong camp to those living with HIV/AIDS. Rev. Hana is the Indigenous Ministries MIssion er for the Diocese of Huron and with the Archdeacon for Reconciliation and Indigenous Ministry\, The Ven. Rosalyn Elm\, she leads the ministry team taking care of the many Indigenous parishes. She has also worked with both the Diocese and the local seminary\, Huron University College\, on their decolonization practices and co-authored a chapter of Experience: Spiritua l Formation in Theological Field Education about some of her work.\nCather ine Short\n\nMy name is Catherine S hort\; I am married to Rick\, mother of Michelle and grandmother of Jack a nd Reid Greensides. I am a priest in the Diocese of Western Newfoundland w hich has its see in the city of Corner Brook\, NL. My first career which s panned over forty years was bookkeeper and administrator. After many years serving in lay leadership roles in my home church\, I responded to an ong oing call by enrolling at Queen’s College\, St. John’s\, NL. Once that door had been opened there was no turning back and I graduated with a Bac helor of Theology (honours) degree\, followed by a Master of Theological S tudies (honours) degree. I was ordained Deacon on December 8\, 2015\, and ordained Priest on April 14\, 2016. In the ten years since my ordination\ , I have served in several parishes throughout the diocese including Recto r of the Cathedral St. John the Evangelist and Dean of the Diocese. I curr ently serve as the interim Priest-in-Charge of the Cathedral parish. As I consider the ups and downs of life and ministry I would sum it up in the words of Dr. Seuss\; “O the places you will go”. \n \nVolunteering\n Interested in helping with the event? Contact The Rev. Canon Jeannine Frie sen at jfriesen@bc.anglican.ca.\n~\nA poster is provided below should you wish to post something at your parish.\nA Facebook Group has been started for this event. Join us at: Let's celebrate 50 yrs of the Priesting of Wom en in the ACC!\nThe organizers gratefully acknowledge a grant f rom the Anglican Foundation of Canada in support of this event.\n \nPhoto Credit: J. 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