Canons

Canon 1 Election, Appointment, Consecration and Resignation of Bishops – Amended Synod 2019
Canon 3  Appointment of Administrator - Amended Synod 2017
Canon 4  The Chancellor
Canon 5 Archdeacons - Amended 2003
Canon 6 The Registrar - Amended 2013
Canon 7 The General Synod, 1996
Canon 8 The Provincial Synod -  Amended 2013
Canon 10 The Financial Management and Development VSST – Amended Synod 2013
Canon 11 The Diocesan Executive Council -  Amended Synod 2025
Canon 16 Budget - Amended Synod 2025
Canon 17 Nominations and Elections -  Amended 2015
Canon 18 The University of King’s College, 1999
Canon 20 Regions and Regional Deans - Amended Synod 2025
Canon 23 Archivist, 1991
Canon 24 Archives - Amended 2013
Canon 25 Appointment, Transfer and Resignation of Stipendiary Clergy - Amended Synod 2023
Canon 26 Candidates for Holy Orders, 1996
Canon 27 Licensed Lay Ministers (formerly Lay Readers), 2019
Canon 28 Episcopal Jurisdiction Respecting the Clergy, 1984 - Amended 2009
Canon 29 Relinquishment and Abandonment of the Ordained Ministry, 1984
Canon 30 Discipline, 1996
Canon 31 Trusteeship - Enacted 2009, Amended 2013
Canon 35 Parish Government - Amended Synod 2025 

By-Laws - PDF Format

        Multi-Church Model By-laws Final Approved.pdf  

        Single-Church Model By-Laws Final Approved.pdf

By-Laws - Microsoft Word version (for proposing parish-specific amendments)

        Multi-Church Model By-laws Final Approved.docx

        Single-Church Model By-laws Final Approved.docx

Canon 36 Parochial Endowment
Canon 37 Parochial Finances – Amended Synod 2019
Canon 38  Parochial Property – Amended Synod 2017
Canon 39 Parish Cemeteries and Burial Grounds and Columbaria - Amended 2015
Canon 40 Parish Records, 1987
Canon 41 Parish Difficulties - Amended 2013
Canon 42 Interpretation - Adopted 2009

 

REPEALED

Canon 2 -1999,  Canon 9 -1980, Canon 12 -1994, Canon 13- 1994, Canon 14 , 1994, Canon 15, 1994, Canon 19  - Synod 2017 (Diocesan Book Room) and Canon 21  - 1978 Canon Clergy Employment outside Regular Duties



Provincial & General Synod Canons

Provincial Canons

Canons on the Province of Canada website

1. The Ecclesiastical Province of Canada and its Dioceses
2. The Election, office and work of the Metropolitan Bishop
3. The Election, Appointment, Consecration and Resignation of Bishop
4. The Licensing of Clergy
5. Discipline and the Court of Appeal
6. The Canons of General Synod

General Synod Canons

Canons on the National Web Site

1. Name of the Church
2. Corporate Seal
3. The Primacy
4. Unallocated
5. Archives
6. Finance Management
7. Missionary Society
8. The General Synod Pension and Income Continuance Plans
9. Lay Retirement Plan
10. Unallocated
11. Anglican Book Centre
12. Continuing Education Plan
13. Deaconesses
14. The Book of Common Prayer
15. The Ecclesiastical Province of Ontario
16. The Ecclesiastical Province of British Columbia
17. The Licensing of Clergy
18. Discipline
19. Relinquishment and Abandonment of the Ministry
20. The Supreme Court of Appeal
21. On Marriage in the Church