ᑲ ᑌᐯᓕᒋᑫᑦ ᓇᑐᑕᒪᐧᐁᐧ ᑭᒋ ᐱᒪᑎᓯᒋᒃ ᓂᔅᑕ ᑫ ᑎᐸᒋᒧᑐᑕᑭᒃ ᒥᓗᐧᐊᒋᒧᐧᐃᓐ
The Diocese of Moosonee...called by God to Live and Proclaim the Gospel

Our Bishop

Rodney Wallace BrantFrancis is a Canadian Anglican bishop. In March of 2025, he was elected the 12th bishop of the Anglican Diocese of Moosonee in the Anglican Church of Canada. He was consecrated and seated as a bishop on May 28, 2025, at St. Matthew’s Cathedral in Timmins. Prior to being elected bishop, BrantFrancis was a priest in the Diocese of Ontario.

BrantFrancis is Mi’kmaq and was raised in Newfoundland. He trained for ministry at the Toronto-based Church Army Training College and was commissioned as a Church Army (now Threshold Ministries) evangelist in 1994. He was ordained as a deacon in 2006 and as priest in 2007 in the Diocese of Moosonee. Bishop BrantFrancis has worked as a prison chaplain, in Mission to Seafarers in the Diocese of Fredericton, and in parish ministry in Wemindji, a Cree community in remote northern Quebec, from 2006 to 2016 and in the Tyendinaga Mohawk Territory in the Diocese of Ontario from 2016 to 2025.

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