Michael Peers, Date of Birth, Place of Birth
TweetMichael Peers
Canadian bishop
Date of Birth: 31-Jul-1934
Place of Birth: Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Profession: priest
Zodiac Sign: Leo 
About Michael Peers
- Michael Geoffrey Peers (born 31 July 1934) was Primate of the Anglican Church of Canada from 1986 to 2004. Born in Vancouver, British Columbia, 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 seek ordination.
- He entered Trinity College at the University of Toronto where he obtained a licentiate in theology.
- He was ordained as an Anglican priest and served in the following positions: Curate of Holy Trinity, Ottawa, in 1963 Rector of St.
- Bede's, Winnipeg, 1965 Archdeacon of Winnipeg, River North Anglican Parishes, Winnipeg, 1971 Dean of Qu'Appelle (Regina, Saskatchewan) and rector of St.
- Paul's Cathedral, Regina, 1976 - 1978 Bishop of Qu'Appelle (Regina, Saskatchewan), 1976 - 1986 Archbishop of Qu'Appelle and Metropolitan of the Ecclesiastical Province of Rupert's Land, 1981-1986 Primate of Canada, 1986 - 2004Peers speaks English, French, Spanish, German and Russian.
- He is married with three children and four 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 (ISBN 1-55126-437-4), 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.
- He is also Ecumenist in Residence at the Toronto School of Theology.
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