Canada - Ecclesiastic Flags and Arms

Pursuing the question posed by Simon Kershaw last month, I attended a ceremony this evening at Carleton University here in Ottawa and observed the Governor General complete the formalities to register the Coat of Arms granted to the General Synod of the Anglican Church of Canada, and to grant a flag and badge. This was part of the Primate's service opening the General Synod (the annual meeting of the corporate body governing the Anglican Church in Canada).

Thanks to Auguste Vachon, St Laurent Herald of the Canadian Heraldic Authority, I have the full text of the letters patent before me and will post a summary of the key paragraphs. (The text is available in both French and English, as with all government documents in this country.)

TO all whom these Presents shall come ... Greeting: by Robert Douglas Watt, Chief Herald of Canada:

Whereas the Most Reverend Michael Geoffrey Peers, Archbishop, Primate and President of the General Synod of the Anglican Church of Canada, has represented to the Chief Herald of Canada, that a body under the name of the General Synod of the Church of England in Canada was constituted and organized ... in 1893, and that the aforesaid General Synod was further incorporated ... 1921, ...

And Whereas the Most Reverend Michael Geoffrey Peers has further represented to the Chief Herald of Canada that Garter King of Arms and his fellow Kings of Arms did by Letters Patent dated the 29th day of December 1938 grant Armorial Bearings to be borne and used by the General Synod, and that it is the desire of the ... General Synod that these Armorial Bearings should be registered by the Canadian Heraldic Authority, and that a flag and badge be also granted to the General Synod of the Anglican Church of Canada in permanent commemoration of the centenary of its foundation;

And Whereas a warrant dated the 14th day of February 1994 has been issued by ... James Cyrille Gervais, ... Deputy Herald Chancellor of the Canadian Heraldic Authority, authorizing the Chief Herald to register these arms and to grant such flag and badge as he deems fitting and appropriate to be borne and used by the General Synod of the Anglican Church of Canada;

Now Know You that pursuant to the authority vested in His Excellency the Right Honourable Romeo Adrien LeBlanc, ... Governor General and Commander-in-Chief of Canada, to exercise the armorial prerogative of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II as Queen of Canada, by Letters Patent dated the 4th day of June 1988, and the terms of my Commission of Office, I Robert Douglas Watt, Chief Herald of Canada, do by these presents register in the name of the General Synod of the Anglican Church of Canada the