The Diocese is headed by a bishop who also chairs the Synod of the Diocese of Ottawa. The synod is a governing membership body comprised of all clergy and elected lay members.
The Anglican Diocese of Ottawa was founded in 1896, and was previously governed by the Dioceses of Ontario, Toronto and Québec. It is one of several dioceses in the Ecclesiastical Province of Ontario, which is then part of the General Synod for the Anglican Church of Canada.
The diocese did not have residential schools operating within its boundaries and was not named in the Indian Residential School Settlement Agreement and no relevant records were transferred to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission. Some parishes supported, or even sponsored, individual students attending Anglican residential schools elsewhere in Canada.
1886-2015