N.B. Anglican bishop named archbishop
Last Updated: Saturday, September 26, 2009 | 2:00 PM AT
CBC News
A New Brunswick Anglican bishop has been elected the senior bishop for the Ecclesiastical Province of Canada.
Archbishop Claude W. Miller will now preside over the dioceses of Montreal, Quebec, Fredericton, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island, Newfoundland and Labrador.
Miller, 65, will continue to serve as the bishop of the Anglican Diocese of Fredericton, a post he has held since 2003.
He was elected to his new position during a provincial synod held in Gander, Nfld., earlier in September.
Miller will oversee the election and consecration of bishops, provide pastoral care to members of provincial structures, especially bishops, and perform other administrative and ministerial duties.
He succeeds Archbishop Bruce Stavert, who retired as the senior bishop and the bishop of the Quebec diocese earlier this year.
Miller, a Bathurst native and married father of two, entered the ministry as a second career in the late 1980s.
He previously worked in other fields, including real estate and property management. The Ecclesiastical Province of Canada, founded in 1860, predates the Anglican church's national structure by three decades.
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