Lynne McNaughton is the tenth bishop of Kootenay,[1] a diocese in the Anglican Church of Canada, and was the 13th metropolitan of the Ecclesiastical Province of British Columbia and Yukon.
Dr. Lynne McNaughton, as she then was, was elected the tenth bishop of Kootenay on January 19, 2019 at the Cathedral Church of St. Michael and All Angels in Kelowna, B.C.
[4] On March 6, 2021, she was elected Metropolitan of the Ecclesiastical Province of British Columbia and Yukon; an office that comes with the title archbishop.
She was elected by the members of the provincial house of bishops and the electoral college of the province on the first ballot.
She is the second woman to become the Metropolitan of the Ecclesiastical Province of British Columbia and Yukon.