Anglican Catholic Church


The Anglican Catholic Church, also known as the Anglican Catholic Church , is a body of Christians in the continuing Anglican movement, which is separate from the Anglican Communion led by the Archbishop of Canterbury.
The continuing Anglican movement and the Anglican Catholic Church grew out of the 1977 Congress of St. Louis. The congress was held in response to the Episcopal Church's revision of the Book of Common Prayer, which organizers felt abandoned a true commitment to both scripture and historical Anglicanism.
This denomination is separate from the Anglican Catholic Church in Australia and the Anglican Catholic Church of Canada.

History

The decision to allow the ordination of women was one part of a larger theological position opposed by the congress. As a result of the congress, various Anglicans separated from the Episcopal Church and formed the "Anglican Catholic Church" in order to continue the Anglican tradition as they understood it. Its adherents have therefore claimed that this church is the true heir of the Church of England in the United States.
In January 1978, four bishops were consecrated. What had provisionally been called the Anglican Church in North America, eventually divided. The Canadian parishes formed the Anglican Catholic Church of Canada, and American parishes formed three separate bodies, the Anglican Catholic Church, the United Episcopal Church of North America and the Diocese of Christ the King. In 1984 the five dioceses of the Church of India were received by the Anglican Catholic Church and constituted as its second province, but they rescinded Communion between 2014 and 2018 over matters relating to the status of the second province. This was settled by the CIPBC asserting its independence. The Second Province is now termed “The Anglican Catholic Church of South Asia”.
The congress's statement of principles summarized the new church's reason for being as follows:
Since 1990 the Anglican Catholic Church has expanded to twelve dioceses in the Americas, the United Kingdom, and Australia. Also during this period a number of parishes left the Anglican Catholic Church to merge with the American Episcopal Church and form the Anglican Church in America. Additional parishes left and formed the Holy Catholic Church. In October 2005 Mark Haverland of Athens, Georgia, replaced John Vockler, who was in charge from 2001 to 2005, as archbishop and metropolitan. On May 17, 2007, Haverland signed an intercommunion agreement negotiated with the United Episcopal Church of North America. At the 17th Provincial Synod, October 2007, Wilson Garang and his Diocese of Aweil in Sudan were received into the Anglican Catholic Church so that today the Anglican Catholic Church has over 250 parish churches and missions worldwide. In October 2008 Presley Hutchens, a bishop of the ACC addressed the United Episcopal Church of North America's ninth triennial convention and discussed uniting the ACC and UECNA.
More recently, in 2015, the number of ACC dioceses in South Africa has grown to four.

Province I

Province of South Asia