The Most Reverend Michael Geoffrey Peers (born 1934) was Primate of the Anglican Church of Canada from 1986 till 2004. Born in Vancouver, British Columbia in 1934, Archbishop Peers completed an undergraduate degree in languages at the University of British Columbia in 1956 and a diploma in translation at the University of Heidelberg in 1957: he had intended to embark on a career in diplomacy.
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- The Most Reverend Michael Geoffrey Peers (born 1934) was Primate of the Anglican Church of Canada from 1986 till 2004. Born in Vancouver, British Columbia in 1934, Archbishop Peers completed an undergraduate degree in languages at the University of British Columbia in 1956 and a diploma in translation at the University of Heidelberg in 1957: he had intended to embark on a career in diplomacy. In the meantime an interest in religion which had begun in his youth after a non-religious upbringing increased and he decided to qualify for ordination. He entered Trinity College at the University of Toronto where he obtained a licentiate in theology. He was ordained an Anglican clergyman and served in the following roles: Curate of Holy Trinity, Ottawa, in 1963 Rector of St. Bede's, Winnipeg, 1965 Archdeacon of Winnipeg, River North Anglican Parishes, Winnipeg, 1972 Dean of Qu'Appelle and rector of St Paul's Cathedral, Regina, 1974 Bishop of Qu'Appelle (Regina, Saskatchewan), 1977 Archbishop of Qu'Appelle and Metropolitan of the Ecclesiastical Province of Rupert's Land Primate of Canada, 1986 Archbishop Peers speaks English, French, Spanish, German and Russian. He is married with three children and two grandchildren. He currently resides in Toronto, Ontario where he is Ecumenist-in-Residence at the Toronto School of Theology. In 2006 his Grace Notes: Journeying With the Primate, 1995-2004, a collection of his monthly columns in the Anglican Journal, was published, and in 2007 his The Anglican Episcopate in Canada: Volume IV, 1977-2007. Peers is now confessor to the monastery of the Society of St. John the Evangelist in Boston.
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