The Conference was an administrative grouping of presbyteries (or districts), governed by a court of lay and ministerial delegates from presbyteries and pastoral charges. Traditionally, this court met yearly (at the Annual Meeting or "Conference") and an elected Conference Executive Committee governed between meetings. Conference office staff worked with committees, presbyteries and charges on a variety of tasks.
The term "Conference" had multiple meanings in the United Church, both administrative and geographic. It often referred to one of the eleven to thirteen regional governing bodies within the United Church of Canada (from 1925 to 2018) classified as Conferences, which made up one of the "court" levels of the Church, alongside the (national) General Council, and the various Presbyteries or Districts that made up each Conference. The regular (often annual) meeting of the court of lay and ministerial delegates from presbyteries and pastoral charges could also be referred to as the Conference. The term also sometimes meant the geographical area containing pastoral charges and presbyteries overseen and served by a particular Conference.
The United Church of Canada was formed in 1925, from a union of the Congregational Union of Canada, the Methodist Church and 70% of the Presbyterian Church in Canada, along with a number of churches organized under the General Council of Local Union Churches (mostly in Western Canada). Saskatchewan Conference was one of eleven regional Conferences established by the United Church of Canada General Council, at their inaugural meeting, in June 1925. Initially, the Conference contained 16 presbyteries but this number varied, in the years that followed.
In January 2019, as part of a larger restructuring of the United Church of Canada, Saskatchewan Conference and its seven existing presbyteries were combined into a single entity, initially identified as Region 4 and later renamed Living Skies Regional Council.
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Conference office staff
Minister (retired 2005)
Minster
Minister (retired 1998), Conference staff (1978-1983)
Minister (retired 1986)
Minister (retired 1981)
Minister, Conference President (1982)
Minister
Minister
Minister
Minister (retired 1985)
Minister
Minister
Minister, Conference President (1969)
Minister (retired 1983)
Minister (retired 1977), Conference President (1967)
Minister (retired 1970)
Minister
Minister (retired 1984), Conference President (1965)
Minister (retired 1983); Field Secretary C.E.1944-1946
Minister (retired 1976)
Minister
Minister
Minister (retired 1948)
Minister (ordained 1937)
Minister (retired 1973)
Minister
Minister (retired 1973), Conference President (1950)
Minister (retired 1974)
Minister
Minister, retired 1951
Minister (retired 1952)
Minister
Minister
Minister (retired 1947)
Minister (retired 1946); Conference President (1934), Conference Archivist (1947-1953)
Minister
Minister (retired 1959), Conference President (1942)
Minister
Minister
Conference President (1925-1926); United Church Moderator (1930)
Minister
Minister (1925-1982), retired 1966; Conference President (1947); Conference Archivist
Minister (1925-1965), retired 1952; Secretary of Conference (1925-1933), President of Conference (1933-1934).
Minister, President of Conference (1946/1947)
Minister
Minister
Minister
Minister
Minister (retired 1927)
Minister
Minister
Minister (retired 1955)
Minister (retired 1929)
Minister (retired 1936)
Minister (retired 1925)
Minister (retired 1947)
Minister (retired 1951)
Minister (retired 1943)
Minister (retired 1948)
Minister (retired 1937)
Conciliar structure between congregations, Presbyteries, Conferences and General Council of the United Church.
The Methodist Church was one of the denominations that unified to create the United Church of Canada, in 1925.
The Presbyterian Church was one of the denominations involved in creating the United Church of Canada. However, some Presbyterian congregations did not join, and the Presbyterian Church in Canada continued, after 1925.
1925–1980, 1983
1925–1980
1926, 1928–1934, 1949–1950
ca.1925–1986
1975–2018
ca.1970?–2018
1925-1980, 1983
1925-1962, 1970, 1972
1965-1969, 1971-1974
1925
1938-1972