Carl Reid
Carl Reid is a Canadian Roman Catholic priest. Formerly a bishop in the Anglican Catholic Church of Canada, a Continuing Anglican church within the Traditional Anglican Communion, he was received into the Roman Catholic Church in 2012 and became a priest in of the Personal Ordinariate of the Chair of Saint Peter.
Reid was a member of the Traditional Anglican Communion. On 27 January 2007, along with Craig Botterill, he was consecrated bishop by the primate, John Hepworth, assisted by Peter Wilkinson and Robert Mercer. This made him a suffragan bishop of the Anglican Catholic Church of Canada and in charge of the province of Ottawa.
In 2009, Pope Benedict XVI published the apostolic constitution Anglicanorum Coetibus. In November 2011, Reid became assistant bishop of Our Lady of Walsingham Ordinariate, composed of clergy and parishes which were preparing for entry into the future Personal Ordinariate of the Chair of Saint Peter. He was received into the Roman Catholic Church on 15 April 2012. He was received along with Peter Wilkinson and received communion for the first time as a Roman Catholic in a ceremony presided by Monsignor Richard Gagnon at St Andrew's Cathedral in Victoria. The Pope has allowed some married former Anglican priests to be ordained as Roman Catholic priests and Reid was ordained on 26 January 2013 by Monsignor Terrence Prendergast at Notre Dame Cathedral in Ottawa.[1] Reid became dean of Saint John the Baptist Church and rector of the Congregation of the Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary. In 2014, he was appointed rector of the Congregation of Blessed John Henry Newman Church in Victoria.[2]
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- This article incorporates information from the equivalent article on the French Wikipedia.