Stan McKay
{{Short description|Moderator of the United Church of Canada from 1992 to 1994}}
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| honorific-prefix = The Very Reverend
| name = Stan McKay
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| title = 34th Moderator of the United Church of Canada
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| church = United Church of Canada
| elected = August 17, 1992
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| term_end = 1994
| predecessor = Walter H. Farquharson
| successor = Marion Best
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| ordination = 1971
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| birth_name = Stanley John McKay
| birth_date = {{Birth year and age|1942}}
| birth_place = Fisher River Cree Nation, Manitoba, Canada
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Stanley John McKay (born 1942), known as Stan McKay, is a Canadian Protestant minister from Fisher River Cree Nation, Manitoba. He served as the 34th Moderator of the United Church of Canada and is the first Indigenous person to have led a mainline Protestant denomination in Canada.
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- {{cite book |last1=McKay |first1=Stan |year=1996 |chapter=An Aboriginal Christian Perspective on the Integrity of Creation |editor1-last=Treat |editor1-first=James |title=Native and Christian: Indigenous Voices on Religious Identity in the United States and Canada |location=New York |publisher=Routledge |page=51 |isbn=0-415-91373-X}}
- {{cite web |url=https://indspire.ca/laureate/stanley-john-mckay/ |title=Stanley John McKay |publisher=Indspire |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150421080541/https://indspire.ca/laureate/stanley-john-mckay/ |archive-date=April 21, 2015 |url-status=live |access-date=April 21, 2015}}
- {{cite news |date=August 12, 2012 |title=This week in religion history: Blasphemy on the silver screen? |url=http://news.nationalpost.com/news/religion/this-week-in-religion-history-blasphemy-on-the-silver-screen |newspaper=National Post |location=Toronto |publisher=Postmedia Network |agency=The Canadian Press |access-date=April 21, 2015}}
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{{s-ttl|title=Moderator of the United Church of Canada
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Category:Moderators of the United Church of Canada
Category:People from Interlake Region, Manitoba
Category:University of Winnipeg alumni
Category:Ministers of the United Church of Canada
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