According to our baptismal covenant, our ministers are all the members of the parish.  We have clerical and lay leadership to give us focus and direction as we seek to live out God's call for us in the world.

The Reverend Bradley D Smith
Rector of Tyendinaga
Chaplain of Her Majesty's Chapel Royal of the Mohawk

Brad Smith was born in 1980 and raised in Cameron, Ontario, a rural farming community.  His parish church while growing up was St George's, Cameron, where he attended until it was deconsecrated in 1998.  Brad reflects that the close-knit community of the rural congregation is one of the decisive factors in his vocation to ordained ministry.

Brad has a Bachelor's degree in Arts, with a major in History, from Queen's University in Kingston and a Master of Divinity from the University of Trinity College in Toronto, where he was Head of Divinity in his third year.  He has done professional development at the Royal Military College of Canada and Queen's School of Religion.

Brad is a commissioned officer in the Canadian Forces.  He served in the Naval Reserve from March 2001 to November 2006 and worked in Kingston, Toronto, Quebec City, and Esquimalt in Naval Reserve Divisions, aboard Kingston-class warships and for the Canadian Defence Academy.  Now wearing an Army uniform, he is currently Chaplain of The Hastings & Prince Edward Regiment, Canada's most decorated Army unit in the Second World War.

Ministry in the Church has taken Brad from his home church to the Cathedral Church of St George in Kingston and the Parishes of Wolfe Island; St Peter's, Collins Bay; Church of the Messiah, Toronto; Powassan, Callander, Restoule and Chisholm (Diocese of Algoma); and St Barnabas', Chester (Toronto).

He is currently the incumbent of the Parish of Tyendinaga, ministering among the Mohawks of the Bay of Quinte and people of neighbouring communities.  He sits on the Diocese of Ontario's Stewardship and Congregational Development Committee and is Chair of the joint Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Kingston and Diocese of Ontario Committee on Human Trafficking.

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The Reverend Canon Cyril J Betts
Honorary Associate Priest

Canon Betts was the Rector of Tyendinaga from 1969 to 1975 and assisted the Parish in its transition from interim ministries to the arrival of the Rector in 2005.

Churchwardens

William H Brant
Beverley Hill
Douglas Green
Tammy Doreen

Parish Council

The Parish Council consists of the Rector, Churchwardens, Treasurer, Lay Delegates to Synod and four elected Members-at-Large from each congregation in the Parish.  The Parish Council represents the Vestry of of the Parish and advises the Rector and Churchwardens in the governance of the Parish of Tyendinaga.  Minutes from meetings of the Parish Council can be read on the Parish Council page.

Organist and Director of Music

Mr John Hall
For more on our music programme, please visit the Music page.