Statement of Authorization and Commission for AICP to nominate a candidate for the position of the first National Indigenous Bishop

Sacred Circle 2005

We the Sacred Circle of 2005, meeting at Pinawa, Manitoba, having called on the Primate and the Anglican Church of Canada to provide a national aboriginal bishop within a year, authorize and commission, the Anglican Council of Indigenous Peoples (ACIP), to nominate to the Primate, a fit and qualified person to be appointed as the first National Indigenous Bishop.

Further we authorize and commission the Anglican Council of Indigenous Peoples to move the appropriate councils of Anglican Church of Canada

1. to adopt a process for the election of subsequent National Indigenous Bishops by a Sacred Circle representative of ail Canadian Indigenous Anglicans, and

2. to empower the National Indigenous Bishop with episcopal and pastoral responsibilities as well as full authority and jurisdiction for aboriginal communities across Canada.

August 12. 2005

The Members of Anglican Council of Indigenous Peoples (ACIP)

Sidney Black Gloria Moses Arthur Anderson Charles Bobbish Alicie Tuktu Leena Metuq Ron Evans Vernon Morris Marcie French Andrew Wesley Freda Lepine Willard Martin Todd Russell Eunice McMahon Lorraine Still Shirley Quash Hannah Alexie Ruth Ross Andrew Atagotaaluk Sherry Small Frank Armistead