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Rod BrantFrancis
Canadian Anglican bishop (born 1967) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Rodney Wallace BrantFrancis (born June 13, 1967[1]) is a Canadian Anglican bishop. In 2025, he was elected the 12th bishop of the Anglican Diocese of Moosonee in the Anglican Church of Canada. Prior to being elected bishop, BrantFrancis was a priest in the Diocese of Ontario.
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Biography
BrantFrancis is Mi'kmaq and was raised in Newfoundland. He trained for ministry at the Toronto-based Church Army Training College and was commissioned as a Church Army (now Threshold Ministries) evangelist in 1994.[2][3] He was ordained as a deacon in 2006 and as priest in 2007 in the Diocese of Moosonee. [3] BrantFrancis has worked as a prison chaplain, in Mission to Seafarers in the Diocese of Fredericton, and in parish ministry in Wemindji, a Cree community in remote northern Quebec, from 2006 to 2016 and in the Tyendinaga Mohawk Territory in the Diocese of Ontario from 2016 to 2025.[2]
In March 2025, he was elected bishop of Moosonee, the first diocesan bishop since 2013, when the diocese became a mission area of the Ecclesiastical Province of Ontario during a period of financial difficulty. He was consecrated and seated as a bishop on May 28, 2025, at St. Matthew's Cathedral in Timmins.[3][4]
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Personal life
In 2017, BrantFrancis, a member of the Qalipu First Nation, was accepted into the Mohawks of the Bay of Quinte First Nation.[1] He is married to Lisa BrantFrancis, a fellow priest and Threshold Ministries evangelist.[2]
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