As a priest in the Diocese of New Westminster in the early 2000s, Walters played a major role in the Anglican realignment in Canada.

[1] He studied at the University of London[1] and taught high school in Bermondsey[2] before pursuing a call to ordained ministry.

Walters joined the Barnabas Fellowship, a charismatic community, and studied for his divinity degree at Salisbury and Wells Theological College.

[4] Ingham cited said he did not “want to see any episcopal ministry exercised here which might disturb my efforts to create a climate of dialogue and mutual listening among members of the diocese" and cited concerns about what he called Tay's “aggressively anti-homosexual stance” and comments Tay had made a decade prior during a visit to British Columbia about totem poles in Stanley Park representing "evil spirits" that needed to be exorcised.

intervention in cases of exceptional emergency which are incapable of internal resolution in provinces"), Walters, as chairman of the ACiNW, asked Archbishop of Canterbury George Carey to intervene by providing alternative episcopal oversight.

While Carey, who opposed same-sex blessings, responded that the New Westminster synod decision "saddens me deeply" and left him "no doubt that the unity of the Communion is threatened by your Synod's decision," he told Walters that he was "alarmed by the statements of those who appear to be determined to look elsewhere for episcopal oversight in place of the extended episcopal support which Bishop Ingham has offered" and said he doubted that Resolution 3.6 "is directly relevant to the problems you face.

"[8] After the synod, Walters in 2003 asked the primate of Canada to appoint William Anderson, the traditionalist bishop of Caledonia, to “provide true episcopal oversight on an interim basis"[9] after an offer of oversight from Terry Buckle, bishop of the Yukon, was withdrawn under threat of discipline from the metropolitan archbishop of British Columbia and the Yukon.

[14] On November 13, 2009, Walters was consecrated a bishop for ANiC in St. Catharines, Ontario, alongside Charlie Masters and Stephen Leung.