Our Leadership
Rev. Dr. Benjamin Wall
Rector
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Benjamin has been the rector at Christ The King since February 2024.
Benjamin is married to Leah, and they have three awesome children, Elisha, Genevieve, and Cassian. Benjamin enjoys good light roasted coffee (the more floral and fruity the better), reading, teaching, preaching, playing chess, camping with the family, running (sometimes), and snowboarding. Benjamin has a heart for helping the church contend for hope in broken places.
Contact Pastor Benjamin here - he'd love to hear from you!
Rev. Leah Wall
Deacon
Church Administration
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Leah moved with Benjamin to Christ the King Church in 2024 and installed as a deacon at CTK. Prior to this move, she was a catechist for children in Greensboro, NC and a Children's Spiritual Director for 3 - 6 year olds at an Episcopal school. In 2025, she began work at CTK as the church administrator.
Leah enjoys her full-time role as a homeschool educator, her work with the Catechesis of the Good Shepherd, and in her spare time, she enjoys a variety of crafts, camping with the family, a good discussion with a friend, or exploring in Toronto.
She has a heart for encouraging the church to live in childlike wonder remembering Jesus' words that unless we turn and become like a child, we will never enter the Kingdom of God.
You can get in touch with Leah here.
Robyn Kokot
Children’s Ministry
Safeguarding Policies
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Robyn started attending CTK in 2021 when the church first started meeting at Wycliffe College. The church quickly became home. It was at CTK that she felt a sense of belonging in Toronto, and even met her loving husband, Connor. She is currently in teacher’s college and plans to teach high school English. She enjoys working with children, playing chess, reading a good book with a cup of tea, and painting.
If you'd like to contact Robyn, you can do that here.
Rev. David Alenskis
Honourary Assisting Priest
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David is a priest, missionary, and PhD candidate in historical theology at Wycliffe College, University of Toronto. He first sensed while growing up as a teenager in Indiana that the Lord was calling him to pastoral ministry, and after graduating from Cedarville University he got his first taste of long-term cross-cultural ministry by volunteering at a Christian orphanage on the northern coast of Peru.
After completing his theological studies at Westminster Seminary California in 2009 and undertaking a curacy at a parish in the San Diego area, he was sent to serve as a full-time missionary with the Society of Anglican Missionaries and Senders (USA) in 2011: first in Buenos Aires, Argentina and then in western Belize, where until December 2020 he served as the pastor of two rural Anglican churches and three primary schools.
In 2016 he married his wife Mary Beth, and together they have three spirited young children: Austin, James and Lily. Their family is now dually supported by SAMS and the Canadian missionary society Into All the World. Having come near the end of their time of preparation in Toronto, their family is currently making plans to follow God as missionaries to Europe, with David serving and teaching at Tyndale Seminary, Europe.
Liam Kinnon
Music Ministry
Rev. Dr. Glen Taylor
Honourary Associate
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After being a regular visitor to Christ the King since 2017, Glen became a member of Christ the King and also an honorary assistant priest in 2020. Recently retired, Glen has for the past three decades been a professor of Old Testament at Wycliffe College at the University of Toronto. Previously (from 2002–2020) he was a priest in the Anglican Church of Canada. Glen served as the interim rector of CTK from 2021 through the end of 2023.
Glen was reared in a Christian family in Calgary, Alberta. He accepted Christ as his Saviour while a youngster. While attending university there he fell in love with the academic study of the Old Testament, a logical complement to an interest he also has in preaching and pastoring. After completing an MTh degree from Dallas Theological Seminary he attended Yale University where he completed his PhD in Near and Middle Eastern Languages and Literatures, specializing in Hebrew and the Old Testament. There he met another Canadian PhD student, Marion, whom he married and with whom he has taught alongside at Wycliffe since 1987. Marion and Glen have three adult children, David, Catherine, and Peter, the former two of whom are married. They live in the downtown area and have a large woolly dog named Seamus. In retirement Glen hopes to teach for short periods of time overseas, including the Gambia, where he helped found a Bachelor of Christian Religious Studies degree at the University of the Gambia.
Glen enjoys spending time at the cottage and returning to the Rocky Mountains to hike and ski. Other interests include collecting antiques (including a 1962 Ford Thunderbird), scull-boating, and horseback riding.
Logan Gates
Honourary Assisting Priest
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Logan recently completed his PhD in Political Theory at the University of Toronto, studying the emergence of human rights in early modern political thought. Originally from Northern Virginia, Logan trained for ministry at Wycliffe Hall, Oxford, before moving to Toronto in 2015 to work as an apologist, speaking on tough questions about the Christian faith at universities across Canada and the US. In 2019, he was ordained as a Priest in the Anglican Diocese of Canada.
In 2018 Logan married his bride Samantha -- a native Torontonian! Logan loves running and spending time on, in, or near the water, especially windsurfing, sailing, and surfing. He enjoys a hot cup of tea and talking about the big questions in life.
Rev. Robin Guinness
Honourary Associate
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Robin has ministered within the Anglican Church, initially in England but most extensively in Canada, for over 50 years, working in three different Canadian dioceses. For 25 years he was Rector of St. Stephen’s Church Westmount, Montreal. For six years he was Associate Rector of Little Trinity Church, Toronto. He also worked for two years with InterVarsity Christian Fellowship in Toronto.
After his retirement in 2005, Robin taught part-time at Wycliffe College, Toronto, for 5 years, and joined the Anglican Network in Canada in January 2011. Since then he has been an honorary associate at Christ the King.
The roots of ANiC can be traced in part to the Canada-wide Anglican Essentials Conference that took place in Montreal in 1994. The 700 bishops, clergy, and laity that attended that conference produced the Montreal Declaration of Anglican Essentials. As chairman of Barnabas Anglican Ministries at that time, Robin was one of the architects of the Montreal conference.
Robin gives thanks for the rich partnership in ministry with his wife Sandra that has been a gift and blessing over the years. They rejoice to see that the work of the gospel is a high priority in the lives of their three sons and of their families. Robin and Sandra are blessed with nine grandchildren.
Our Church Council is:
Susy Kim
Kevin Murray
Patricia Stirling
Joseph Teh
Regina Angkawidjaja
Christ the King Anglican Church is a parish of the
Anglican Diocese of Canada.
You can learn more about our diocesan leadership here.
Our Bishop is the Right Rev. Dan Gifford.
The Anglican Diocese of Canada is a diocese of the
Anglican Church of North America.
You can learn more about our provincial leadership here.
Our Archbishop is the Most Rev. Stephen Wood.
What do we believe & confess?
Nicene Creed
We believe in one God, the Father, the Almighty, maker of heaven and earth, of all that is, seen and unseen.
We believe in one Lord, Jesus Christ, the only Son of God, eternally begotten of the Father, God from God, Light from Light, true God from true God, begotten, not made, of one Being with the Father; through him all things were made. For us and for our salvation he came down from heaven, was incarnate of the Holy Spirit and the Virgin Mary and became truly human. For our sake he was crucified under Pontius Pilate; he suffered death and was buried. On the third day he rose again in accordance with the Scriptures; he ascended into heaven and is seated at the right hand of the Father. He will come again in glory to judge the living and the dead, and his kingdom will have no end.
We believe in the Holy Spirit, the Lord, the giver of life, who proceeds from the Father [and the Son], who with the Father and the Son is worshiped and glorified, who has spoken through the prophets. We believe in one holy catholic and apostolic Church. We acknowledge one baptism for the forgiveness of sins. We look for the resurrection of the dead, and the life of the world to come.
Amen
Apostles' Creed
I believe in God, the Father almighty, maker of heaven and earth;
And in Jesus Christ his only Son our Lord; who was conceived by the Holy Ghost, born of the Virgin Mary, suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, dead, and buried. He descended into hell. The third day he rose again from the dead. He ascended into heaven, and sitteth on the right hand of God the Father almighty. From thence he shall come to judge the quick and the dead.
I believe in the Holy Ghost, the holy catholic Church, the communion of saints, the forgiveness of sins, the resurrection of the body, and the life everlasting.
Amen
For Christ and His Kingdom, in Toronto as it is in Heaven
We are an Anglican church seeking to live for Christ and His Kingdom. Uniquely positioned in downtown Toronto, we live the prayer of Jesus that God's Kingdom would come and His will be done on earth - here, where we are and going from here into all the world - as it is in Heaven.
Through our worship, prayer and life that we share in common we follow close to Christ, our King.
When on the day the great I Am
The faithful and the true
The Lamb who was for sinners slain
Is making all things new
Behold our God shall live with us
And be our steadfast light
And we shall ere his people be
All glory be to Christ
CTK Toronto is part of the world-wide Anglican Communion. It is the largest Protestant communion of churches in the world, with almost 80 million members in 165 countries.
Our Parish Council and Ministry teams affirm the creeds as our Statement of Faith.
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Why bother with Church?
That’s a great question. With so many ways to spend a Sunday afternoon, why take the time to gather with people you might not see during the week, singing songs that may be unfamiliar?
The Bible paints a beautiful picture of what the church is meant to be—more than just a meeting, it's a family. Not a perfect family—because real families are often messy—but a family rooted in something eternal: the Kingdom of God.
The church is the family of God, brought together not by shared interests or backgrounds, but by God's love and purpose. And like any healthy family, we’re learning to love, support, and encourage one another as we walk together in faith.
The church is also called to be an embassy of God's kingdom—a place where the values, love, and presence of the King are made visible to the world. Each of us, as members, are ambassadors of that kingdom, pointing others to the goodness and glory of God through our lives. We are living, together, for Christ and His Kingdom.
It’s an incredible privilege to be part of this—to belong to God’s family and to take part in what He is doing in the world through His kingdom. We hope you’ll visit with us and find it to be a gift, not a bother.