Jordan Cantwell was born on 1967 and was the Moderator of the United Church of Canada from 2015 to 2018.
11 Facts About Jordan Cantwell
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Jordan Cantwell was ordained as a minister of the United Church in 2010, and was elected to the position of Moderator at the 42nd General Council of the church in Corner Brook, Newfoundland and Labrador, in 2015.
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Jordan Cantwell's mother being Methodist and her father Roman Catholic, she was raised in the Anglican church, but left it when she was in her twenties.
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Jordan Cantwell became involved in social justice issues such as the anti-apartheid movement of the late 1980s, and in 1993, the United Church of Canada sent her to South Africa as an international observer through the World Council of Churches.
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Jordan Cantwell joined the United Church in the 1990s, and began to work for the Centre for Christian Studies in Winnipeg, Manitoba, where she met her future spouse, Laura Fouhse, a diaconal minister of the United Church.
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Jordan Cantwell was one of the co-plaintiffs in Vogel v Canada, the court case which ultimately legalized same-sex marriage in Manitoba.
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In 2006, at the age of 39, Jordan Cantwell made the decision to become an ordained minister of the United Church; however, she would need to first earn a Master of Divinity degree.
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Jordan Cantwell took on various roles within the national church.
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Jordan Cantwell was installed the next day, and remained in that post until the 43rd General Council in 2018.
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Jordan Cantwell reminded them that they were a people constituted by an alternative vision of how the world might be, a whole different set of principles and values and therefore a whole different set of possibilities than the ones offered by the dominant culture.
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Jordan Cantwell is the second openly gay person to be elected to the post, and the second to lead a major Christian denomination, the first in both cases being her predecessor, Gary Paterson.