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SPECIAL MISSION OF THE BISHOP

Bishop Townshend announces the establishment of the Community of the Good Shepherd as a Special Ministry of the Bishop under Canon 12, effective 13 April 2025.

The Good Shepherd is a ministry to the Filipino community (and friends) in London and surroundings and is led by the Reverend Agustin Lizardo. It will meet at the former Trinity Church, Lambeth. The community gathered there with the Bishop for brief prayers of dedication last Wednesday evening. The Good Shepherd has been meeting as a Special-Ministry-in-formation since Easter Sunday 2024. We are grateful to the rector and wardens of the parish of St John the Evangelist, London, for their oversight and support over the past year. 

RETIREMENT

Bishop Townshend has accepted the request of the Reverend Lorraine Brooks to retire as Deacon with special responsibility for pastoral care, St. Paul’s, Stratford.

Lorraine was ordained to the diaconate on 31 May 2016 and has been an active member of the College of Deacons since that time. She had a significant part in the life of in the parish even before her ordination, serving as a licensed lay reader, treasurer, and churchwarden as well as beginning the pastoral ministry that she exercised as a deacon. We are grateful for Lorraine’s faithful service to the Church and wish her well in retirement. 

Bishop Townshend has accepted the request of the Venerable Megan Collings-Moore to retire from her role as the Archdeacon of the North, effective 31 May 2025.

Archdeacon Megan served as the Archdeacon of Waterloo from 2018 and the Archdeacon of the Saugeens from 2021 until she became the Archdeacon of the North with the new configuration of archdeaconries in May 2022. Megan was ordained deacon (1998) and priest (1999) for Huron by her father, Bishop Tom Collings, and began her ministry at All Saints, Woodstock. She oversaw the creation of the Church of the Epiphany, Woodstock, from All Saints and New St. Paul’s, before becoming the Chaplain of Renison College and the Incumbent of St. Bede’s Chapel in 2006. In May 2007, Megan was made a Canon of the Cathedral Church of St. Paul.

Archdeacon Megan’s service to the Diocese of Huron and the wider Church has been exemplary. Over the course of her ministry, she has been a member of Diocesan Council and Sub-Council, the Postulancy Board, the Bishop’s Clergy Conference Committee, and the Nominating Committee. She is currently serving as the Chair of the Worship Planning Committee for General Synod 2025.

We are grateful for Archdeacon Megan’s many years of ministry and wish her well in retirement.