The Reverend

James Ferry
Assistant priest at the Church of the Holy Trinity
ChurchAnglican Church of Canada
Appointed2011

James Ferry is a priest of the Anglican Church of Canada. In 1992, he was removed from his parish after it was revealed that he was gay and in a relationship with another man.[1]

Raised in the United Church of Canada, later a member of a Baptist congregation, Ferry joined the Anglican Church in his twenties. He studied at the University of Toronto at Scarborough, Tyndale University College (then Ontario Bible College) and Wycliffe College.[1]

He was inhibited from functioning as a priest and later became affiliated with the Metropolitan Community Church, a gay and lesbian founded church which has taken an explicitly gay-affirming stance including the ordination of openly gay candidates for the ministry. He was later partially reinstated as an Anglican priest and now occasionally celebrates the Eucharist and preaches at the Church of the Holy Trinity, Toronto.[2]

Ferry published a book about his experience, In the Courts of the Lord, in 1994.[3]

In 2006, Archbishop Terence Finlay, who had inhibited Ferry, married a lesbian couple in a United Church of Canada church, prompting Ferry to publicly demand an apology for Finlay's treatment of him.[4]

Finlay's successor, Archbishop Colin Johnson, reinstated Ferry's licence on 26 June 2011 and appointed him an honorary assistant priest at the Church of the Holy Trinity.[5]

References

  1. 1 2 Ferry, James (1994). In the courts of the Lord: a gay priest's story. Crossroad. ISBN 0-8245-1391-6.
  2. ↑ David. "Rev. James Ferry". Anglican Samizdat. Retrieved 2019-09-18.
  3. ↑ Ferry, James. (1993). In the courts of the Lord : a gay minister's story. Toronto: Key Porter Books. ISBN 1550134728. OCLC 27381456.
  4. ↑ "Fired priest Ferry asks for apology from church". Anglican Journal. 1 November 2006. Archived from the original on 15 June 2011. Retrieved 12 December 2010.
  5. ↑ Holy Trinity website


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