On Saturday, January 30th , 2010 at Holy Trinity Sobor in Winnipeg, Reader Spencer (Anthony) Estabrooks was made a subdeacon and ordained deacon.  On Sunday, January 31st he was ordained as Priest Anthony at St. Nicholas parish in Narol, Manitoba by His Grace, Irenee (Rochon), Bishop of Quebec City. 

Fr. Anthony is assigned as rector of the Mission of “The Theotokos of the Life-Giving Spring” in Winnipeg, which has been without a resident priest for the majority of its existence (2006 to the end of January, 2010).

Picture: in the back row are participating priests, deacons, subdeacons, and altar servers, with newly-ordained Fr. Anthony and his wife, Irene in front of Bishop Irenee.

In the front are 14 of the 18 members of Fr. Anthony and Irene’s family (children with their spouses, and grandchildren).