The Right Reverend Dr. Carmen Lansdowne, Moderator of the United Church of Canada
In the changing reality of the United Church of Canada it seems that congregations are becoming more, well, congregational, rather than connected with the denomination from sea to sea to sea. I would imagine that a startling number of active United Church folk would be hard-pressed to name our current Moderator, the term for the elected
Carmen Lansdowne Joins Emmanuel Faculty
Emmanuel College is pleased to announce the appointment of the Right Rev. Dr. Carmen Lansdowne to the new tenure-track position of Assistant Professor of United Church Studies, effective Dec. 1, 2025. She will direct the College’s Master of Divinity (MDiv) program and teach courses related to the United Church of Canada (UCCan). Presently serving as the 44th Moderator of the United Church, Dr. Lansdowne is the Church’s first female Indigenous Moderator. Before she was elected as the Moderator in 2022, she served as executive director at First United Church Community Ministry Society in Vancouver, a position she had held since 2017.Not only does she bring a breadth and depth of experience serving in ministry within the UCCan and the Indigenous church—she also brings deep ties with the World Council of Churches (WCC), World Communion of Reformed Churches (WCRC) and environmental justice movements within the global ecumenical circles. The search committee enthusiastically recommended Lansdowne’s appointment, citing her down-to-earth, hope-generating and creative ways of engaging people on the issues that matter.
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