He or she may be a lay person or a member of the Order of Ministry and is elected to a three-year term by commissioners attending the church's triannual General Council.
The current Moderator is Carmen Lansdowne, who was elected to the office at the 44th General Council in July 2022,[1] and installed on August 7, 2022.
Duties of the Moderator include: When the United Church of Canada was founded in 1925, General Councils were biennial, giving each moderator a two-year term of office.
(The first exception was the first moderator, George C. Pidgeon, who only served for one year.
[3]) At the 1994 General Council, the commissioners voted to make General Councils triennial, thus increasing the moderator's term to three years.