Drawing people into the conversation

The Primate wants conversations with young people. As a first step, he has begun email discussions with youth members of General Synod. When he travels to dioceses or parishes, he asks his hosts to include at least one youth event in his itinerary.

He is the first national church leader in Canada to use the power of the internet to speak to members of the church and to the world. In a series of webcasts, entitled +Andrew: Conversations with the Primate. Archbishop Andrew Hutchison engages the church in dialogue and solicits viewers’ responses, questions, comments and ideas.

The webcasts can be viewed or downloaded at www.anglican.ca

The Primate's website

The Primate’s Office
$390,000

Archbishop Andrew Hutchison, Primate of the Anglican Church of Canada, believes that the church must build relationships with the media, youth, government leaders and people from all walks of life around the country and the world.

“People want to be heard, understood, valued and, most importantly, involved,” he says.

As pastor to the whole church and chief executive officer of General Synod, the Primate presides over meetings of the House of Bishops, the Council of General Synod and General Synod. He is an ex-officio member of all committees, councils and boards. He is chair of the Metropolitan Council of the Episcopal Church of Cuba. He represents Canadian Anglicans in world forums (such as the Lambeth Conference, the Primates’ Meeting and the World Council of Churches). He also chairs Management Team – General Synod departmental directors – who meet once a month.

You would think, with all these responsibilities, that he’d have a huge staff, but in fact there are only two others in his office – a principal secretary and an executive assistant. Since the Primate spends a great deal of time “on the road”, these two staff members provide research, office support and travel arrangements and also help to respond to correspondence.

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