Archdeacon Alan Perry is no longer the general secretary of General Synod, per a press release posted on anglican.ca Sept. 3. The release does not specify a reason for the ending of his employment in the role.

It states that he is a priest of the Anglican Church of Canada in good standing, and it wishes him well in his future undertakings. General Synod will soon begin the process of recruiting a new general secretary, it adds.

Henrieta Paukov, director of communications and information resources for General Synod, declined to provide further details about the reasons for and nature of the end of Perry’s employment.

On June 5, then-acting primate Archbishop Anne Germond announced Perry would be taking a leave of absence effective June 3, less than a month before this summer’s meeting of General Synod. On June 24, Canon (lay) Clare Burns disclosed to General Synod that the church had contracted accounting firm Doane Grant Thornton to investigate what process had led to Perry’s and General Synod treasurer and CFO Amal Attia’s signing a lease to rent new office space for General Synod’s national office from the United Church of Canada without reporting back to or requesting approval from the Council of General Synod. The lease, on a newly redeveloped office property at 300 Bloor St. West in Toronto, is estimated to cost $8.18 million over five years, according to General Synod financial statements. Burns also said that whether the lease Perry signed was legally enforceable or not remained an open question.

In May 2024, Perry told the Anglican Journal that the Anglican, Presbyterian and United churches had signed leases for the property, which was then still under construction. At that time he also said there were not yet concrete numbers for what it would cost.

Read it all in the Anglican Journal