Abelie Napartuk, one of four Native Anglican deacons to be ordained priest at St. Paul's Cathedral, Regina, May 13, conducting service with three Native people in Great Whale River, QC.. - [1975?]
Photo consists of one man with prayerbook kneeling and two women with children sitting with prayerbooks.
Notes
"Abelie Napartuk (left), one of four Inuit (Eskimo) Anglican deacons to be ordained priest at St. Paul's Cathedral, Regina, May 13, conducts services in his own language, in Great Whale River. He graduated from the world's most northerly clergy training school, 20 miles from the Arctic Circle, on Baffin Island. The Arthur Turner Training School, Pangnirtung, established by the Anglican Church of Canada, in 1970, trains Inuit candidates for the ministry. Abelie and three other graduates will be ordained by the Most Rev. G. F. C. Jackson who is Metropolitan of the Anglican province of Rupert's Land and Archbishop of Qu'Appelle diocese."