Our Mission

The Diocese of Moosonee straddles both northern Ontario and Northwestern Quebec covering some 560,000 sq kms, second to the Diocese of the Arctic in geographic size. It is one of the great historic missionary areas of the Anglican Communion and of early Canada with records dating back to 1780. It is an area set in “an almost unbelievable land...of forests and lakes and rivers with mountains and muskeg and desolate tundra” (Olive Mackay Petersen).

The southern part of the Diocese, called the Watershed Deanery, was developed with the mining, lumber and rail industries.

The northern part of the Diocese that surrounds the James Bay and extends into inland moosoneearmsQuebec and is known as the James Bay Deanery is made up of the ancient aboriginal people of the north mostly of the Cree Nation.