Dear members and friends of our diocese,

As you have likely heard, many of us gathered at our recent annual synod where one of the items we considered was a proposed change to our diocesan name. Through many years of joys, challenges and changes our family of churches have gladly laboured in Gospel ministry together as the Anglican Network in Canada. And so, it was with a mix of emotions that we all considered this proposed change of our name to the Anglican Diocese of Canada. But after much prayer, consultation, and consideration it seemed to us as a House of Bishops and our Diocesan Council right and timely to commend this update to our synod. The change was duly discussed at our synod gathering and then passed by a great majority. I was humbled and grateful for the way we listened to one other in the process and then were able to vote together on the matter with a high degree of unity.