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Diocese of Algoma

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is always the current bishop of Algoma, with the editor being assigned by the bishop. The newspaper has a mandate to share with the Algoma Anglican community about ongoing diocesan issues, news, and events. The paper also includes updates about the numerous parishes within the Anglican Diocese of
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The mission of the diocese is "To share in the gathering work of Christ so that His newness of life overflows into our hearts, homes, churches, and community."
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of the territory had shifted considerably, as mining and forestry attracted more European settlement. By 1906, Algoma ceased to be a missionary diocese of the
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The diocese operates three camping ministries: Camp Gitchigomee located on Sandstone Lake near Thunder Bay; Camp Temiskaming on
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The Diocese of Algoma, founded in 1873, was one of four carved off from the original Diocese of Toronto. Consisting of a large
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Over the years the name of this paper changed a number of times and was known successively as
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and was published out of the Shingwauk School. In 1978 an Ojibway-language supplement to the
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is James McShane. Apart from Sault Ste. Marie, other major centres in the diocese include
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The first diocesan newspaper was established in the Algoma region in 1874 by the Rev.
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with the tag line "an Ojibway newspaper published monthly at the Shingwauk Home".
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activity combined with ministry to the growing European settlements in the
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population, the primary focus of the new diocese was intended to be
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Editors of the numerous iterations of the newspaper have included:
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1993–2001: Allan R. Reed (7th dean; Dean of Kootenay, 2001)
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Engracia De Jesus Matias Archives and Special Collections
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