Linda Nicholls

Linda Nicholls is the 13th Bishop of the Diocese of Huron. She was elected as co-adjutor bishop on February 13, 2016^[1] and assumed the role of Diocesan Bishop on November 1, 2016 with the retirement of the Rt Rev Robert Bennett.^[2] Prior she served as a Suffragan Bishop in the Anglican Diocese of Toronto, Canada since 2008: she was in charge of the Trent Durham area of the Diocese.^[3]

Nicholls was educated at Wycliffe College, Toronto and ordained in 1986. After a curacy at Scarborough,^[4] she was the incumbent of Georgina from 1987 to 1991 and Thornhill from 1991 to 2005. She was also the Co-ordinator for Dialogue within the Anglican Church of Canada until her election as Suffragan Bishop in 2007.^[5]

Internationally, Nicholls serves on a member of the Primate's Task Group of the Anglican Communion Office, a member of the Anglican Roman Catholic International Commission III, a participant of Indaba and a Faculty member of Living our Vows of the Episcopal Church College of Bishops.

Nationally, Nicholls has served as a member of the Commission on the Marriage Canon^[6] from 2013-2016, the Co-Chair of the Anglican-Roman Catholic Dialogue in Canada^[7] from 2012–present, a member of the Faith, Worship and Ministry Committee of the Anglican Church of Canada from 2011-2016, first a member and the Chair of the Standing Committee on Religious Orders of the Anglican Church of Canada House of Bishops, the Chair of the Primate's Theological Commission of the Anglican Church of Canada from 2008-2010, a member of the Task Force on the Role of the Primacy in the Anglican Church of Canada from 2008-2010, Co-Chair of the Ecumenical Health Care Network of the Canadian Council of Churches, a member of the Canadian Christian Jewish Consultation from 2005-2008, Co-Chair of the National Muslim Christian Liaison Committee from 2005-2008, staff resource to the Human Life Task Force from 2005-2008, member of the Interfaith Task Group of the Canadian Council of Churches from 2005-2008, staff resource to the Faith, Worship and Ministry Committee of the Anglican Church of Canada from 2006-2008, a member of the Canadian Anglican-Roman Catholic Dialogue from 1989-1998, Chaplain to Church House, national office of the Anglican Church of Canada, a General Synod delegate in 2004 and staff to General Synod in 2007, a member of the Partners in Mission Committee of General Synod in 2005 and a member of the Windsor Report Response Task Force of the Anglican Church of Canada in 2004-2005.

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