Charlie Masters
Charles Frederick Masters is a Canadian bishop. He is the current Moderator Bishop of the Anglican Network in Canada within the Anglican Church in North America.
He was reared at Lennoxville, Quebec, and Guelph, Ontario, in a devout Anglican family. He graduated from the University of Guelph in 1972, where he found his religious calling. After his graduation, he worked for a Christian camp ministry, the Navigators, at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver.
Masters moved to England with his wife in 1975 to study for ordained ministry at St John's College in Nottingham. He was ordained an Anglican deacon in 1978 and a priest in 1979 in the Anglican Church of Canada. He served afterwards as the rector of St. George's Lowville, in the Anglican Diocese of Niagara, until June 1, 2008.
Concerned about what he considered the theological liberalism of the Anglican Church of Canada, Masters and his congregation joined the Anglican Network in Canada in February 2008. In June 2008, he became archdeacon and national director in ANiC, which was a founding body of the Anglican Church in North America one year later. He attended the Global Anglican Future Conference in Jerusalem, also in June 2008.
Masters was consecrated Area Bishop for Ontario and East Canada at St. Catherine's Church, Ontario, on November 13, 2009. He was elected at the ANiC synod, held at St. Peter & St. Paul's Anglican Church, in Ottawa, on November 14, 2012 as a co-adjutor bishop to succeed Don Harvey as the moderator bishop on Harvey's retirement in 2014. Masters enthronement took place at St. Peter & St. Paul's Anglican Church in Ottawa at the ANiC annual synod on November 6, 2014, by Archbishop Foley Beach.
Masters is married and has two adult children.
