Larry Scyner, Associate Priest

The Rev. Dr. Larry Scyner is well known to many of us. He has been an honorary assistant at St. John's for many years. He ministered as a hospital chaplain in Montreal and more recently as the director of the Pacific Centre for the Family in Victoria. In the last couple of years has led parishes through important transitions at the Church of the Advent and at St. Mary the Virgin, Metchosin. Larry will be taking responsibility for much of the pastoral care at St. John's.

After Montreal, he held senior management positions in several family counselling agencies and in the Social Work Department of Health Sciences Centre, Winnipeg, before working in Victoria as Executive Director of Pacific Centre Family Services Association. He holds theological degrees from Cambridge and McGill, and Social Work degrees from McGill. He holds a Ph.D. in Social Administration, Mental Health and Social Work from Bristol University, England.

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