Brockville’s own Wall Street United Church pastor, Rev. Kimberly Heath, has been elected the 45th moderator of the United Church of Canada. Article content

In a nail-biting finale, Heath won on the third ballot at the church’s general council in Calgary, edging out Rev. Samuel V. Dansokho. Article content

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The field included Rev, Dr, John Pentland, Rev Dr. Cheri DeNovo CM and Rev Sungmin Jung . Dansokho and Heath were left standing at the end of the second ballet.

The moderator is the highest office one can hold in the United Church of Canada.

“The moderator is like an archbishop is to the Anglican Church or the pope is to the Roman Catholic Church. It is a three-year mandate, not a permanent position, a triennium, as it is called between one gen

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