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Commemorations and feast days are part of the Book of Common Prayer calendar throughout the year. On Sunday, February 23rd, the calendar commemorates two bishops of the church: Lindel Tsen, Bishop in China, consecrated 1929; and Paul Sasaki, Bishop in Japan, consecrated 1935. In 1937, the two bishops visited Canada together, to bear witness to the unity of Chinese and Japanese Christians, despite their two nations then being at war.

The Rt. Rev. Philip Lindel Tsen was the first Chinese presiding Bishop of the Anglican Church in China. He was born in poverty, but with help from an Episcopal priest he graduated from a high school and divinity school established in China by the American Episcopal Church. In 1912 he was ordained as a priest in China. A decade later Fr. Tsen went to the United States for advanced theological studies and he also received an MA in Sociology. He returned to China and later became the Bishop of Honan. During the Second World War his leadership was crucial for the Chinese Anglican community. He attended the Lambeth Conference of 1948. By that time, China was already in the grip of turmoil leading up to the Chinese Communist Revolution. On his return, Bishop Tsen was placed under house arrest. He died in 1954.

The Rt. Rev. Paul Sasaki completed his studies in England and was ordained priest in Tokyo in 1917. He became the first Japanese diocesan bishop of Mid-Japan, which had been served earlier by the missionary work of the Anglican Church of Canada. By that time, Japan had invaded China and the two countries remained at war until World War II ended. When the wartime government tried to forcibly amalgamate all Protestant churches in Japan, many Anglican congregations refused to join. Bishop Sasaki and others formally rejected the amalgamation. They opposed state intervention in religion and upheld the authority of the Anglican church’s episcopacy and Apostolic succession. Church leaders, including Sasaki, suffered harassment, periods of imprisonment, and torture beginning in late 1944. Bishop Sasaki never recovered from these experiences, and died within a year of his release at the end of the war.

PARISH CONTACTS:

Priest-in-charge:
Rev. Oliver Osmond
oro@eastlink.ca

Parish Wardens:

George Hilchie
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Barry Smith
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Church Wardens:

St. Mark’s, Broad Cove
Barry Smith
barrywsmith@eastlink.ca

St. Michael’s, Petite Riviere
George Hilchie
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St. Alban’s, Vogler’s Cove
David Porteous
david.porteous@bellaliant.ca

St. Mary’s, Crousetown
Dennis House
Dennis.house@dal.ca

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