Abelie Napartuk conducting prayers with his family
https://archives.anglican.ca/link/graphics19741
- Fonds
- Diocese of the Arctic fonds
- Material Type
- Graphic material
- Description Level
- Item
- Date
- 1973
- Fonds Number
- 100
- Material Type
- Graphic material
- Description Level
- Item
- Date
- 1973
- Physical Description
- 1 photoprint : b&w ; 25 x 20 cm
- Scope and Content
- Photo consists of an Inuit man kneeling with his family using prayer books.
- Verso continues: Abelie Napartuk, one of four Inuit 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.
- Headings for Persons
- Napartuk, Abelie, 1938-
- Subjects
- Inuit clergy
- Accession Number
- P8803-AR
- Item Number
- 85