IFL to Host Lecture by Rev. Dr. Andrew Bennett

March 17, 2022

The Aboriginal Vicar of Christ Still:
Accountability to Conscience in a Secularist Age

Rev. Dr. Andrew P.W. Bennett

Baines Room, Bill Daniel Student Center
Wednesday, March 23
3:00 PM

The Rev. Dr. Andrew P.W. Bennett(Ph.D., University of Edinburgh) is Program Director for Religious Freedom and the Director of Faith Community Engagement at Cardus. He is also an ordained deacon in the Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church in the Eparchy (Diocese) of Toronto and Eastern Canada.

As Cardus Program Director for Religious Freedom, Fr. Deacon Andrew works to promote religious freedom and the importance of public faith to our common life. He also leads Cardus' engagement with faith communities across Canada and Cardus's program of public theology. Fr. Deacon Andrew is a Senior Fellow at the Religious Freedom Institute (RFI) in Washington, DC - a leading independent think-tank committed to achieving broad acceptance of religious liberty as a fundamental human right for everyone, everywhere.

Previously, Fr. Deacon Andrew served as Canada's first Ambassador for Religious Freedom and led the Office of Religious Freedom from 2013 to 2016 in defending and championing religious freedom internationally as a core element of Canada's foreign policy. He simultaneously served as Canada's Head of Delegation to the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance – a 31-country body which leads international efforts in Holocaust education, research, and remembrance.

This lecture is sponsored by the Institute for Faith and Learning and
the Institute for Studies of Religion