Linda Nicholls: Difference between revisions

Nicholls was consecrated a bishop on 2 February 2008.<ref name="gs2019">{{cite web |title=Nominee Information: The Rt. Rev. Dr. Linda Carol Nicholls |url=https://gs2019.anglican.ca/wp-content/uploads/linda-nicholls.pdf |website=Election of the Fourteenth Primate of the Anglican Church of Canada |publisher=The General Synod of the Anglican Church of Canada |date=2019}}</ref> She served as a [[suffragan bishop]] in the [[Anglican Diocese of Toronto]], Canada from 2008 to 2016: she was in charge of the [[Bishop of Trent-Durham|Trent Durham]] area of the diocese.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.toronto.anglican.ca/about-us/episcopal-areas/trent-durham/|title=Trent-Durham|website=The Diocese of Toronto}}</ref> On 13 February, 2016, she was elected [[coadjutor bishop]] of the [[Diocese of Huron]] —– she was the first woman to be elected a bishop in the diocese<ref name="coadjutor">{{cite web |title=Bishop Linda Nicholls elected in Diocese of Huron |url=https://www.toronto.anglican.ca/2016/02/13/bishop-linda-nicholls-elected-in-huron/ |website=The Diocese of Toronto |accessdate=14 July 2019 |date=13 February 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://lfpress.com/2016/02/13/linda-nicholls-elected-as-successor-to-head-of-anglican-diocese-of-huron-saturday-in-london|title=Female bishop a first for diocese|last=nurun.com|website=The London Free Press|language=en-CA|access-date=2017-08-21}}</ref> —– and she automatically succeeded to the role of [[diocesan bishop|diocesan]] [[Bishop of Huron]] on 1 November 2016, upon the retirement of [[Bob Bennett (bishop)|Robert Bennett]].<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.anglicanjournal.com/articles/bishop-of-huron-to-retire-november-1/|title=Bishop of Huron to retire November 1 – Anglican Journal|date=2016-09-23|work=Anglican Journal|access-date=2017-08-21|language=en-US}}</ref>