The Rev. Gillian Hoyer holds her son Thomas while her daughter Lily waters a seedling.

Greening the diocese and supporting a PWRDF partner in Uganda

A group of people surround Kate Jackson as she cuts a purple ribbon to open the new residence.

Diocese celebrates success creating more than 150 affordable housing units

The Anglican Diocese of Ottawa is celebrating the success of its 125th anniversary campaign to create 125 new deeply affordable housing units. Three projects scheduled ...
Cornwall Mayor Justin Towndale, Millennial Contracting's Matthew Daigle and Shawn Kyer, MPP Nolan Quinn, the Rev. Canon PJ Hobbs, the Rev. Adam Brown, Centre 105 board chair Maria Crosby, Ontario Trillium Foundation representative George Christoff, and Centre 105 executive director Taylor Seguin.

Centre 105 celebrates important renovation

Centre 105 hosted a celebration on April 12, thanking the Ontario Trillium Foundation for a $106,000 capital grant, which has paid for the construction of ...

The path forward as we change, learn and thrive

I have written before of how the people and clergy of our diocesan church joined me in a three-year long journey of honestly assessing where ...
Exterior of Cornerstone's new emergency shelter on Carling.

Bishop urges federal government to do more to house those in greatest need

Bishop Shane Parker has asked the federal government to do more to combat homelessness and the shortage of affordable housing. In a letter to Housing ...
The Rt. Rev. Shane Parker

From our Bishop

A letter to the clergy and people of our diocese

June 27, 2025   Dear Clergy and People of our Diocese, Our journeys in faith often bring us to a place where we are faced ...

An abiding sense of thanksgiving

In the early weeks following my consecration as your bishop on the Feast of Pentecost in 2020, we were in lockdown, and I was limited ...

The heart of prayer

This year, Ascension Day falls late in May (a couple of days before the fifth anniversary of my consecration as your bishop). I have always ...
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Reflection

Creating church in the forest

There is something sacred, imperfect and beautiful when you take church into the forest. To walk along a path with a group of people, who ...

Listening to and following the Holy Spirit

In what the Rev. Dr. Jesse Zink, principal of Montreal Dio College, calls this time of polycrisis, we are still called to rejoice in the ...

Qui suis-je ?

À la fin de mon adolescence, j’ai participé à un programme d’été organisé par l’Ordre of the Holy Cross, la Society of St John the ...