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Please
take time and acquaint
yourself with our
programs, ministries and
worship.
I
think you will be
impressed with the
activities and the
fellowship you will find
in our congregation.
Note
particularly the strong
focus on ecumenical life,
which has always been
central for us and the
other members of the
Tri-Churches community.
This emphasis provides a
whole new and enriching
aspect to our lives.
Please know
that we are always
delighted for you to
worship with us at
St. Cyprian’s.
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Meet
Our Interim
Priest-in-Charge
“I
am most grateful
to have the
opportunity to
offer what I
can
to
further the
ministry of
this parish."
The Rev.
Dr. John Oakes
The Rev.
Dr. John Oakes, who has
been appointed Interim
Priest-in Charge at
St.Cyprian’s for up to
one year from
March 19, 2023, has had
a long and varied
career.
John, who retired from
full-time church
ministry in 2021,
has been an ordained
priest since 1997,
serving mostly
on the West Coast, where
his major incumbency was
at
Holy Trinity, Vancouver.
He was also Rector of
St. Mary’s,
Richmond Hill, in this
diocese from 2014 to
2017. He
ministered for four
years as senior pastor
of a Vancouver
Baptist congregation and
he has been Honorary
Assistant
of St. Paul’s, Bloor
Street, since last
August.
Ever since his
conversion in 1985,
John’s primary passions
have been to share the
good news of Jesus
Christ and to
help build and equip the
Body of Christ. “Since
the call of
the gospel doesn’t
retire, no minister
really does either,”
he says. “I am most
grateful to have the
opportunity to offer
what I can to further
the ministry of this
parish.”
John was educated at
Magdalen College, Oxford
(B.A. and
M.A. in Classics),
Regent College (M.C.S.
in Church History
and MDiv.), UBC (M.A. in
History), and Simon
Fraser University
(PhD. in History). Prior
to pursuing a career in
pastoral ministry
and academia in North
America, he worked as an
investment
analyst and as a
journalist and editor in
the UK.
He and his wife,
Kirsten, who is a travel
consultant, have been
married for over 40
years. They immigrated
to Canada in 1989
and have two adult
daughters and three
granddaughters.
John also remains an
active scholar. He has
taught at Regent
College, Vancouver, was
an Adjunct Professor in
the Department
of History at SFU since
2016 and is now a
Research Fellow at
Wycliffe College,
Toronto. His most recent
book is Conservative
Revolutionaries:
Transformation and
Tradition in the
Religious
and Political Thought of
Charles Chauncy and
Jonathan Mayhew
(Cambridge: James Clarke
& Co., 2017) and he
is currently
working on a biography
of the 18th century
Boston minister, Andrew
Eliot.
John`s outside interests
include sports, movies,
politics and
literature, although not
necessarily in that
order.
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