Chris Harper has been the Bishop of Saskatoon since 2018. Harper is the first Treaty 6 priest to be ordained a bishop.. Harper was born in

Paradise Hill, Saskatchewan Paradise Hill (Canada 2016 Census, 2016 population: ) is a village in the Provinces and territories of Canada, Canadian province of Saskatchewan within the Rural Municipality of Frenchman Butte No. 501 and Division No. 17, Saskatchewan, Census D ...

and spent much of his younger life on

Onion Lake Cree Nation The Onion Lake Cree Nation ( cr, ᐑᐦᒉᑲᐢᑯᓰᐏᓵᑲᐦᐃᑲᓂᕽ, wîhcêkaskosîwi-sâkahikanihk) is a Plains Cree First Nations band government in Canada, straddling the Alberta/Saskatchewan provincial border approximately no ...

. Harper was an Emergency medical technician before his call to ordination. Since then he has worked in the Dioceses of Saskatchewan, Algoma and Toronto. In December 2022, it was announced that Harper will succeed

Mark MacDonald Mark MacDonald may refer to: * Mark MacDonald (bishop) Mark Lawrence MacDonald (born 15 January 1954) is a former Anglican bishop in the United States and Canada. From 2007 to 2022, he served as the National Indigenous Anglican Bishop ( Archbish ...

as National Indigenous Anglican Archbishop.

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