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ST JOHN HENRY NEWMAN, VICTORIA is a community made up of former Anglicans, now part of the Catholic Church, together with lifelong Catholics, and those received into full communion many years ago who have now found their home with us. Our parish was formed in December 2011 by members of the Anglican Catholic Church of Canada seeking unity with the Catholic Church under the terms of the Apostolic Constitution Anglicanorum coetibus. The first members were received at St Andrew’s Cathedral, Victoria on Sunday 15 April 2012 by Bishop Richard Gagnon. In Advent 2012 the Canadian communities of the Ordinariate came together to form the Deanery of St John the Baptist. Our parish is served by a Parochial Administrator, Fr Kenyon, assisted by two Parochial Vicars, Mgr Peter Wilkinson and Fr Don Malins, and the Ordinary Emeritus of the Ordinariate of Our Lady of the Southern Cross, Mgr Carl Reid.
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Fr Lee Kenyon, Parochial AdministratorFr Lee Kenyon, a priest of the Personal Ordinariate of the Chair of St Peter, serves as the Parochial Administrator of St John Henry Newman. He was born in Manchester, England and was educated at the University of Lancaster (BA Philosophy) and the University of Leeds (BA Theology, MA Theology). Fr Kenyon trained for the Anglican ministry at the College of the Resurrection, Mirfield, Yorkshire, a theological college established by the Anglican monastic Community of the Resurrection. Fr Kenyon was ordained priest in the Church of England in 2005 by Bishop John Goddard (now Mgr John Goddard, a priest of the Archdiocese of Liverpool), and served his curacy in the Diocese of Blackburn at St Cuthbert, Darwen with St Stephen, Tockholes, Lancashire.
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Fr Kenyon was appointed parish priest of St John the Evangelist, Calgary in 2009, which became one of the first parishes of the Personal Ordinariate of the Chair of St Peter. Following reception into the Catholic Church, Fr Kenyon was ordained a Catholic priest in 2012, continuing to serve as parish priest of St John’s for a further five years. During this time Fr Kenyon also served as the first Dean of the Canadian Ordinariate Deanery of St John the Baptist, and Episcopal Vicar for Canada. From 2017-2019 he was on loan to the Diocese of Shrewsbury, England, serving in South Manchester, before returning to Canada to take up the position of Parochial Administrator of St John Henry’s in 2019.
Fr Kenyon is married to Elizabeth, from Boise, Idaho, a Classics graduate of Hillsdale College, Michigan. Together they have six children.
Fr Kenyon is married to Elizabeth, from Boise, Idaho, a Classics graduate of Hillsdale College, Michigan. Together they have six children.
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Mgr Carl Reid, Ordinary EmeritusMonsignor Carl Reid PA is the Ordinary Emeritus of the Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of the Southern Cross (Australia and Oceania) and serves St John Henry Newman. He was born in Hagersville, Ontario, and was educated at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario (BASc Geological Engineering). He subsequently completed another thesis pursuant to a 15 year career in Civil Engineering in Victoria, British Columbia.
In 1986 he returned to Ottawa to study theology, briefly auditing a few courses at St Paul’s University, but primarily under the direct tutelage of Professors Emeritus from McGill University and Cornell University, eventually being granted a post-ordination MDiv and DD from St Bede’s Theological College. |
Along with Mgr Wilkinson, he was a participant in the Congress of Concerned Churchmen in St Louis, Missouri in 1977, and served in various lay-capacities in the Continuing Anglican parishes in Victoria and Vancouver prior to his move to Ottawa, where he served at the Cathedral of the Annunciation. Mgr Reid was ordained in 1990 by Bishop Robert Mercer CR (now Mgr Robert Mercer CR, a priest of the Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham). Bishop Mercer also married Mgr Reid and his wife Barb, whom he had met after his return to Ottawa. He became Dean of the Cathedral in 1998, and in 2007 was ordained Suffragan Bishop under the Bishop Ordinary, Peter Wilkinson who had succeeded Bishop Mercer.
After ordination as a Catholic priest in 2013, Mgr Reid and Barb moved back to Victoria in 2014 where he succeeded Mgr Wilkinson as the Parochial Administrator for St John Henry Newman. He was appointed Dean of the Canadian Ordinariate Deanery of St John the Baptist in 2017. In 2019 he was appointed by Pope Francis as the second Ordinary of the Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of the Southern Cross, a position he occupied until his return to Canada in 2023.
After ordination as a Catholic priest in 2013, Mgr Reid and Barb moved back to Victoria in 2014 where he succeeded Mgr Wilkinson as the Parochial Administrator for St John Henry Newman. He was appointed Dean of the Canadian Ordinariate Deanery of St John the Baptist in 2017. In 2019 he was appointed by Pope Francis as the second Ordinary of the Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of the Southern Cross, a position he occupied until his return to Canada in 2023.
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Mgr Peter Wilkinson, Parochial VicarMonsignor Peter Wilkinson PH, a priest of the Personal Ordinariate of the Chair of St Peter, serves as Parochial Vicar of St John Henry Newman. He was born in Victoria and was educated at the University of British Columbia (BA English Literature, History & Classics), with post-ordination study (BD Prelim) at the University of London, under the tutelage of E.L. Mascall. Mgr Wilkinson trained for the Anglican ministry at the College of the Resurrection, Mirfield, Yorkshire and, following ordination by Archbishop Michael Ramsey in 1964, served his curacy in the Diocese of Canterbury at St John the Evangelist, Upper Norwood. He returned to Mirfield as a novice of the Community of the Resurrection, before returning to Canada and serving in the Diocese of British Columbia as a hospital chaplain and assistant at Christ Church Cathedral, Victoria.
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In 1977 Mgr Wilkinson was a participant in the Congress of Concerned Churchmen in St Louis, Missouri, which led him to found the first Continuing Anglican parish in Canada. He assisted in the formation of the Diocese of Canada, and was appointed Honorary Canon of the Diocese. In 1999 Mgr Wilkinson was elected Suffragan Bishop of the Anglican Catholic Church of Canada, becoming Bishop Ordinary in 2005.
Mgr Wilkinson was received into the Catholic Church and ordained priest in 2012, serving as St John Henry’s first Parochial Administrator. In October 2012 he was appointed Consultor to the Anglicanae Traditiones Commission by Archbishop Augustine Di Noia OP to supply texts for Divine Worship: The Missal and Divine Worship: Occasional Services. In 2013 Mgr Wilkinson was appointed Prelate of Honour by Pope Benedict XVI.
Mgr Wilkinson was received into the Catholic Church and ordained priest in 2012, serving as St John Henry’s first Parochial Administrator. In October 2012 he was appointed Consultor to the Anglicanae Traditiones Commission by Archbishop Augustine Di Noia OP to supply texts for Divine Worship: The Missal and Divine Worship: Occasional Services. In 2013 Mgr Wilkinson was appointed Prelate of Honour by Pope Benedict XVI.
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Fr Don Malins, Parochial VicarFr Don Malins, a priest of the Personal Ordinariate of the Chair of St Peter, serves as Parochial Vicar of St John Henry Newman. He was born in Vancouver and was educated at the University of British Columbia (BA Classics & English). Fr Malins trained for the Anglican ministry under the sponsorship of the Bishop of Kootenay and was ordained in 1967. He served his curacy in the Diocese of Kootenay at All Saints, Vernon, and then at St Andrew, Trail, following which he was appointed to the parish of Salmon Arm-Sicamous, having the care of three churches. Fr Malins was appointed to Holy Trinity, North Saanich in Greater Victoria, and served his final appointment in the Anglican Church of Canada at St Luke, Victoria.
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In 1999 Fr Malins resigned from the Anglican Church of Canada and joined the Anglican Catholic Church of Canada, serving the parish of St John the Evangelist, Victoria. He was received into the Catholic Church in 2012 and was ordained priest in 2013. Fr Don is married to Virginia.
Fr Don says: ‘At All Saints, Vernon I was in need of church school teachers. A lady offered to teach if I would help out with a young team of eight and nine year olds in minor hockey. This led to 10 years of coaching and refereeing in three towns. It was so different from parish work! I was then asked to be the Training Officer for the Army Cadets in Salmon Arm. When we moved to North Saanich I became the Executive Officer of the Sea Cadet Corps. A year later I was asked to become the Chaplain for HMCS Malahat of the Royal Canadian Navy Reserve. The community work in hockey and the military were a great outlet from Parish Ministry. I soon learned that evangelism was to those outside the Church and conversion was to those who claimed Church membership’.
Location and ContactFor more information on St John Henry’s and the life and work of the Ordinariate in Victoria please contact Fr Kenyon. We can be found a short distance west of downtown Victoria in the historic district of Esquimalt.
Church of Our Lady, Queen of Peace 849 Old Esquimalt Road Victoria British Columbia, V9A 4W9 T: 778.440.4078
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