- Anglican Catholic Church
Infobox Christian denomination
name = Anglican Catholic Church
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caption = The ACC Crest.
main_classification =Continuing Anglican
orientation = Anglo-Catholic
polity = Episcopal, (withApostolic Succession )
founder =
founded_date = 1977
founded_place =St. Louis, Missouri
separated_from =Episcopal Church in the United States of America
parent =
merger =
separations =Anglican Church in America , Holy Catholic Church (Anglican Rite)
associations = Inter-Communion withAnglican Province of Christ the King ,United Episcopal Church of North America
area = United States, India, Latin America, Australia, Southern Africa
congregations = 135 (In the U.S.)
members = 5,000 (In the U.S.)
footnotes = Continuing AnglicanThe Anglican Catholic Church is a worldwide body of Anglican
Christian s in thecontinuing Anglican movement which grew out of the 1977Congress of St. Louis . The Congress was called in response to the Episcopal Church's heavy revision of theBook of Common Prayer , which was felt to abandon a true commitment to both scripture and historical Anglicanism [ [http://www.anglicancatholic.org/affirmstlouis.html News & Annoucements ] ] . The decision to allow theordination of women was just one part of a larger theological shift introduced by the revisions and opposed by the Congress of St. Louis. As a result of the desire to maintain the Apostolic tradition of male-only clergy and the exclusive use of historical Anglican liturgical forms, a new church was founded - the Anglican Church in North America. The name was later changed to the Anglican Catholic Church.The Congress's statement of principles, the "
Affirmation of St. Louis ," summarized the new church's reason for being as follows: “"…the Anglican Church of Canada and the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America, by their unlawful attempts to alter Faith, Order and Morality (especially in their General Synod of 1975 and General Convention of 1976), have departed from Christ's One, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church."” [http://www.anglicancatholic.org/main/who/stlouis.html Excerpt from the Affirmation of St. Louis as printed in an ACC brochure, “"Who we are"”] ]History
By 1978 four
bishops had been consecrated. What had provisionally been called theAnglican Church in North America (Episcopal) was eventually divided. The Canadian parishes formed theAnglican Catholic Church of Canada , while theUnited States saw the formation of the Anglican Catholic Church and theAnglican Province of Christ the King .In 1984 the five dioceses of the
Church of India (Anglican) were received by the Anglican Catholic Church and constituted as its Second Province. Since 1990 the Anglican Catholic Church has expanded to twelve dioceses in theAmericas , theUnited Kingdom andAustralia . Also during this time period a number of parishes left the Anglican Catholic Church to merge with theAmerican Episcopal Church in forming theAnglican Church in America . It further suffered the loss of additional parishes which formed themselves into theHoly Catholic Church (Anglican Rite) .Present
In October 2005 the Most Reverend
Mark D. Haverland replaced the Most ReverendBrother John Charles asArchbishop and Metropolitan.On May 17, 2007, Archbishop
Mark D. Haverland of the ACC and ArchbishopStephen C. Reber of theUnited Episcopal Church of North America signed an intercommunion agreement at Saint Stephen's ACC Pro-Cathedral in Athens, Georgia.The presiding bishop of the
Anglican Province of Christ the King , responding to the ACC-UECNA intercommunion agreement, has extended his support and approval.At the 17th Provincial Synod, October 2007, the Rt. Rev. Wilson Garang and his
Diocese of Aweil in Sudan were received into the the Anglican Catholic Church. Today the Anglican Catholic Church (Original Province) has over 250 parish churches and missions worldwide, not including the Second Province of India.Province I
* [http://www.anglicancatholic.org/dmas/ Diocese of the Mid-Atlantic States]
* [http://anglicancatholic.org/main/dmw.htm Diocese of the Midwest]
* [http://www.dioceseofneworleansacc.org/ Diocese of New Orleans]
* [http://www.dpsw.org/ Diocese of the Holy Trinity]
* [http://www.anglicancatholic.org/main/diocese/dor/index.html Diocese of the Resurrection]
* [http://www.anglicancatholic.org/dos/ Diocese of the South]
* [http://www.anglicancatholic.org.uk/ Diocese of the United Kingdom]
*Diocese of Aweil, Sudan
*Missionary Diocese of Australia
*Missionary Diocese of the Caribbean
* [http://www.mdne.org/ Missionary Diocese Of New England]
*Missionary Diocese of New Grenada
* [http://www.paraclete.org.za/ Missionary Diocese of Southern Africa]Province II - Church of India (Anglican)
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Diocese of Amritsar
*Diocese of Bombay
*Diocese of Delhi
*Diocese of Lucknow
*Diocese of Nagpur Notes
External links
* [http://www.anglicancatholic.org/ Anglican Catholic Church website]
* [http://www.anglicanbooks.com/ AnglicanBooks.com]
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