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Extra-diocesan

Children
  
Nathan

Ordination
  
1978

Spouse
  
Lynn Samways

Predecessor
  

Successor
  
incumbent

In office
  
2007–present

Name
  
Fred Hiltz

Consecration
  
1995

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Church
  
Anglican Church of Canada

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Frederick James "Fred" Hiltz (born 1954) is a Canadian Anglican bishop. Since 2007, he has been Primate of the Anglican Church of Canada.

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Early life and education

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Hiltz was born in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, where he was also raised. He earned his bachelor of science degree at Dalhousie University in 1975 (major in biology) and obtained his master of divinity degree at the Atlantic School of Theology in 1978. He received an honorary doctor of divinity degree from the University of King's College, Halifax in 2002.

Ordained ministry

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Hiltz was ordained a deacon on 3 June 1977, and a priest on 29 June 1978. He served in a number of parishes within the Diocese of Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island: Christ Church, Sydney; Melford-Guysborough; Timberlea-Lakeside; The Cathedral Church of All Saints, Halifax; and St. John’s Church, Lunenburg.

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In 1994, Hiltz was elected suffragan bishop (an assistant bishop without an automatic right of succession) of the Diocese of Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island. He was consecrated as a bishop the following year. He became diocesan bishop in 2002. Since 2006 he has served as Anglican co-chair of the Anglican-Lutheran International Commission.

Primate

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Hiltz was elected primate on 22 June 2007, and installed as the 13th primate on 25 June. The Guardian newspaper described him as a liberal-leaning bishop. He is considered a moderate theological liberal and he opposes the death penalty. He supports, and voted in favour of, the blessing of same-sex unions at the 2007 General Synod that elected him.

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In recent years Hiltz has undertaken a televised joint Christmas message with the National Bishop of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada, carrying into greater fulfillment past declarations of Anglican–Lutheran solidarity. In October 2009, he was reportedly dismayed by Pope Benedict XVI's invitation to welcome groups of disaffected Anglicans into the Roman Catholic Church.

Residential Schools

In 2017 Archbishop Hiltz issued a strongly-worded rebuke entitled "There was nothing good: An open letter to Canadian Senator Lynn Beyak" who had stated that Canadians ignore the “abundance of good” that happened in residential schools.

Personal life

Hiltz has described his hobbies as the care of animals (two Labrador retrievers and a cat), reading, gardening and woodworking. He is married to his wife of 30 years, Lynne Samways Hiltz. They have one son, Nathan (age 35 as of 2016), who is a jazz guitarist and music teacher in Toronto.

References

Fred Hiltz Wikipedia


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