[Three Cree Indians Ordained in Their Own Language]
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- Date
- 1967 August 1
- Source
- Anglican News Service
- Type
- Press Release
- Text of motion
- Stanley Mission, Saskatchewan - Three Cree Indians were the principals in an ordination service here recently which was conducted in their own language in the historic Anglican Church of the Holy Trinity. Two of the men, who were ordained deacons to minister to their own people, had taught the officiating bishop the Cree tongue 30 years ago.
- It was a gala day for some 300 Crees and a handful of visiting clergy and laymen including Rt. Rev. W.H.H. Crump, Bishop of Saskatchewan. The Indians came by canoe from a large area north of Lac La Ronge and filled Holy Trinity to overflowing. Stanley Mission is on the Churchill River, about 200 miles northeast of Prince Albert, and is accessible only by air and water.
- The Crees, ordained by Rt. Rev. H.E. Hives, Bishop of Keewatin, were Gordon Ahenakew, Philip John Charles and Henry Cook. When invited to officiate, Bishop Hives translated the Anglican ordination service into Cree especially for the ceremony. He had been in charge of Indian work in the Stanley area in the 1930s.
- Built by Indians 117 years ago of pit-sawn timber, the Church of the Holy Trinity is a monument to the work of missionaries in the mid-1800s along the northwestern water routes followed by early fur-traders and explorers. The windows of the Gothic-type frame church, believed to be the oldest Anglican church west of Winnipeg still in use, were brought in from England by way of Hudson Bay and the Churchill River.
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- Subjects
- Cree - Saskatchewan
- Indigenous peoples - Canada - Anglican Church of Canada
- Indigenous clergy - Anglican Church of Canada
- Anglican Church of Canada. Diocese of Saskatchewan
- Holy Trinity Anglican Church (Stanley Mission, Sask.)
- Cree language
- Hives, Harry Ernest, 1901-1974