Annie Ittoshat
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Annie Napartuk Ittoshat is an Inuk Canadian Anglican bishop. Since 2019, she has been one of three suffragan bishops of the Diocese of the Arctic in the Anglican Church of Canada. Alongside Lucy Netse
St. James Anglican Church, Ittoshat's church in Salluit.
Kuujjuarapik
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Kuujjuarapik is the southernmost northern village at the mouth of the Great Whale River on the coast of Hudson Bay in Nunavik, Quebec, Canada. Almost 1,000 people, mostly Cree, live in the adjacent vi
Annie Ittoshat
…Lucy Netser, who was elected and consecrated at the same time, she is the first female Inuk bishop in the world. Annie Napartuk was born in 1970 in Kuujjuarapik, a community on Hudson Bay in Quebec. When she was young, her Inuk parents were forced to leave their coastal camps as part of an effort to "civilize…
Partial view of the village, as seen from the hills to the east