Terrence Owen Buckle (1940 - 2020)
	
Terry Buckle was born in Simcoe, Ontario. He left school early and joined his father and grandfather as a stone mason apprentice, laying bricks. He enjoyed church, became a server and lay reader, and then left stone masonry to work full time for the church.((Pat Ellis, “A genial conveyor of the Christian message.” //The Whitehorse Star// (Whitehorse), 26 November 2010.)) He attended the Church Army Training College and Wycliffe College in Toronto and was commissioned as a Church Army Evangelist in Etobicoke in 1962.((“Terry Buckle.” //Wikipedia,// 2020 website:  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terry_Buckle.)) In 1966 he worked under Archdeacon John Sperry at Holman Island, NWT as an apprenticeship to the ministry and where he was able to complete his theology courses by correspondence. Sperry flew over from Coppermine every three months to check on Buckle’s Inuvialuit language skills and give communion. Terry’s wife Blanche did not arrive at Holman for several months as she was expecting their son Kirk. The family left Holman in 1970, and Buckle ministered at Cambridge Bay from 1970 to 1972, and at Fort Simpson from 1972 to 1975. In 1973, he was ordained deacon in May and priest in November.((Pat Ellis, “A genial conveyor of the Christian message.” //The Whitehorse Star// (Whitehorse), 26 November 2010.))

Rev. Buckle moved to Inuvik in 1975 where he was made canon dean of the Lower Mackenzie. He went to Fort Nelson in 1982 and was made archdeacon of Liard. He co-founded New Life Evangelism Ministries that ran from 1984 to 1995 and took Christianity to remote parishes in Canada and once to Australia. He went to Yellowknife in 1988 and again in 1993 and was elected as Suffragan Bishop of the Arctic. In 1995, Buckle was elected Bishop of the Yukon and the family moved to Whitehorse.((Pat Ellis, “A genial conveyor of the Christian message.” //The Whitehorse Star// (Whitehorse), 26 November 2010.))
	
In 2003, Buckle was involved in a controversy over the acceptance of same-sex marriage in the diocese of New Westminster in British Columbia. David Crawley, then Metropolitan of British Columbia and the Yukon, brought charges against Bishop Buckle for exercising "episcopal authority" over eleven parishes in the diocese. The parishes did not agree with the lenient views of their bishop, Michael Ingham, and voted instead to accept the leadership of Bishop Buckle who shared their traditional view of Christian sexuality. Ingham brought his own charges against the priests in the parishes for refusing his leadership. The parishes were new Canadians out of touch with Canadian mainstream society and Anglican Church realignments. The first openly gay bishop in the Anglican Communion was consecrated in New Hampshire in November 2003.((“Canadian Anglican troubles intensify.” //ChristianWeek,// 2020 website:  https://www.christianweek.org/canadian-anglican-troubles-intensify/)) It took a week for Bishop Buckle to withdraw as the “flying bishop” for the Diocese of New Westminster and comply with an order by the Canadian House of Bishops to stop interfering in the diocese. The affair was the subject of international controversy.((Vancouver Canadian Press, “B.C. bishops take steps to heal rift.” //The Globe and Mail,// 10 November 2003. 2020 website: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/bc-bishops-take-steps-to-heal-rift/article18436388/?service=amp.)) Buckle started a new Anglican organization, the International Zacchaeus Fellowship, dedicated to help church members who want to leave same-sex relationships.((Pat Ellis, “A genial conveyor of the Christian message.” //The Whitehorse Star// (Whitehorse), 26 November 2010.))	
	
Rev. Buckle retired as Archbishop of the Yukon in 2010 and continued to speak and serve on the Board of the Threshold Ministries. In 2018, he gave up the ministry and entered the Anglican Network in Canada, a diocese of the Anglican Church in North America. He and Blanche continued to live in Whitehorse.((“Terry Buckle.” //Wikipedia,// 2020 website:  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terry_Buckle.))