Anglican Church of Canada. Diocese of Algoma. Bishop

Archbishop Anne Germond was born in 1960 in South Africa.  She was educated at St. Theresa's School, Johannesburg, a convent Catholic school. She converted from Roman Catholicism to Anglicanism during high school. She and her husband, Colin Germond, migrated to Canada in 1986.

Archbishop Germond is a graduate of Thorneloe University's School of Theology, she was ordained as a deacon in 2001 and as a priest in 2002.

Germond was the rector of the Anglican Church of the Ascension in Sudbury, Ontario until 2016. She also held the position of archdeacon within the Sudbury-Manitoulin Deanery.She is currently the Chancellor of Thorneloe University, an affiliated college of Laurentian University, in Sudbury from 2015-present.

She was elected as the 11th Bishop of Algoma on 14 October 2016, and consecrated and installed on 11 February 2017. Germond is the first woman to serve as the Bishop of Algoma Diocese. On October 10, 2018, she was elected as the next Metropolitan of the Province of Ontario.

As Metropolitan, she was also promoted to Archbishop of Algoma and Archbishop of the Diocese of Moosonee. Germond is the third woman to hold the title Archbishop in the Anglican Communion.As Metropolitan Germond will oversee the Ecclesiastical Province of Ontario's synod and house of Bishops.

The Rt. Rev. Dr. Stephen Andrews served as the tenth Bishop of the Diocese of Algoma from 2009-2016.  He studied Classics at the University of Colorado and theology at Regent College and Wycliffe College, where he received his M.Div. degree in 1984. After two years in London as Study Assistant to The Rev. Dr John Stott, he was ordained in the Diocese of Nova Scotia in 1986 and served as the Assistant Curate at historic St Paul’s, Halifax, until 1990. He completed a Doctor of Philosophy in the Faculty of Divinity at Cambridge University in 1995, with a dissertation entitled ‘Ancient Interpretation of Divine Judgement in Eden (Genesis 3.14-19).’

In 1994, Dr. Andrews became the Rector of The Cathedral Church of St. Alban the Martyr and Dean of the Diocese of Saskatchewan, in Prince Albert, where he was also Principal of the James Settee College for Ministry, a training initiative for First Nations church leaders.

In 2001 he was appointed President, Provost and Vice-Chancellor of Thorneloe University College, a founding member of the Laurentian University Federation in Sudbury, Ontario. Here he was the Director of the Thorneloe School of Theology programme. He held this position until his election as Bishop of the Diocese of Algoma in 2008.  During his tenure as Bishop Andrews maintained status as an Adjunct Faculty member at Laurentian and occasionally taught in the Join Department of Religious Studies. He serves on the board of Thorneloe University College.

Dr. Andrews has held numerous positions within the General Synod of the Anglican Church of Canada, he served on the Council of general Synod and acted as the chair of the Faith Worship and Ministry Committee. He has been the Bishop’s appointment on the Algoma Diocesan Executive Committee and a member of the Algoma Postulancy Commission. He is a former National Chaplain to the Royal Canadian College of Organists, and was a member of the Primate’s Theological Commission. In 2007 he was elected as Prolocutor of the General Synod of the Anglican Church of Canada and subsequently as clerical member of the Anglican Consultative Council. In 2013 he was appointed the Chair of the Ontario Provincial Commission on Theological Education.

In April 2016 he was announced as the tenth Principal of Wycliffe College, University of Toronto.