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Bishop Burton with Prince Charles (click on photo to enlarge).
Bishop Burton consecrating a new church in Grandmother's Bay, Saskatchewan (click on photo to enlarge).
At the time of his election
in 1993, Bishop Anthony Burton was the youngest bishop in the
world-wide Anglican Communion, and the youngest Canadian bishop that
century. Nearly fifteen years later he is the second-youngest of
the Canadian bishops, though now one of the most senior and experienced
of them. He has just concluded a term as Chair of the Council of
the North (representing a third of Canada's dioceses and 85% of its
geography). He serves as Co-Chair of the Anglican-Roman Catholic
Dialogue and as the Episcopal Visitor to the South American Missionary
Society, as well as patron or officer of a variety of institutions,
societies and organizations. At last year’s Canadian General
Synod he was elected to its executive committee, the Council of General
Synod, and has since been elected by that Council to its small planning
committee. Until his appointment to the Church of the Incarnation
was announced, he was generally expected to become Archbishop of the
Ecclesiastical Province of Rupert’s Land following the retirement of
Archbishop John Clarke from that office this summer.
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