Michael Peers
Overview
Primate of the Anglican Church of Canada
The Primate of the Anglican Church of Canada is elected by the General Synod of the Church from among a list of five bishops nominated by the House of Bishops...
from 1986 to 2004.
Born in Vancouver
Vancouver
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, British Columbia
British Columbia
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, Peers completed an undergraduate degree in languages at the University of British Columbia
University of British Columbia
The University of British Columbia is a public research university. UBC’s two main campuses are situated in Vancouver and in Kelowna in the Okanagan Valley...
in 1956 and a diploma in translation at the University of Heidelberg in 1957. He had intended to embark on a career in diplomacy.
In the meantime, an interest in religion which had begun in his youth after a non-religious upbringing, increased and he decided to seek ordination.
Quotations
"Bishops are not intercontinental ballistic missiles, manufactured on one continent and fired into another as an act of aggression."
On the consecration in Singapore of two conservative American bishops as an act of protest.