If you bother to watch the video, try counting the occupied chairs versus the unoccupied chairs. Clearly, not many cared enough to attend.  Don’t know the stats for the diocese, but be willing to bet a couple of bucks that the attendance at the consecration of their new bishop probably mirrors the ASA versus supposed body count for the diocese.

Given that they have a cathedral, it does seem odd that the ceremony would be in a hotel, albeit a nice one.

Perhaps the catering arrangements for the reception were better?

Or, in the hotel there would not be any crosses or other Christian religous artifacts to offend anyone?  White, Morris, Waldo, Benchase: birds of a feather…......

There were lots of crosses and icons on display at the Galt House Hotel—traditional trappings emptied of their old meanings. But from the look of things, they wouldn’t have filled the cathedral either. That diocese has gone from being historically very low-church to extremely liberal. It’s where I became and Anglican, and it’s the church I left for 10 years, until in another diocese I found some Anglicans who still believed what the Church has always believed, and I felt the Lord had brought me home.

Hi Ian, my comment was much “tongue in cheek” and you hit the nail on the head: sure, they would hang all the right “artifacts” in the Galt for such a ceremony, but the true meaning of those artifacts, or symbols, would be long gone.