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The Anglican Communion is the third largest Christian communion after the Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox churches. [2] [3] [4] Founded in 1867 in London, the communion has more than 85 million members [5] [6] [7] within the Church of England and other autocephalous national and regional churches in full communion. [8]
The American Anglican Council issued a statement, on the election of Bishop Schori which in part said "Jefferts Schori's election will obviously present problems for those who do not recognize the ordination of women priests".
The North American Presbyterian and Reformed Council (NAPARC) is an association of several Presbyterian and Reformed churches in the United States and Canada. The Council meets annually. It lists biblical inerrancy as its basis, along with the Six Forms of Unity: the Westminster Confession of Faith , the Belgic Confession , the Westminster ...
t. e. A personal ordinariate for former Anglicans, [1] [2] shortened as personal ordinariate or Anglican ordinariate, [3] [4] is a canonical structure within the Catholic Church established in order to enable "groups of Anglicans " [5] and Methodists to join the Catholic Church while preserving elements of their liturgical and spiritual patrimony.
The Gulf Atlantic Diocese is a diocese of the Anglican Church in North America, comprising 40 congregations in the American states of Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana and Mississippi. Florida is the state with most congregations. The diocese was originally divided in five deaneries: Gainesville, Jacksonville, Savannah, Tallahassee and Western.
Among its parish churches is St Peter's Church in the UNESCO World Heritage Site of St George's Town, which is the oldest Anglican church outside of the British Isles, and the oldest Protestant church in the New World. The first Anglican missionaries arrived in Nigeria in 1842 and the first Anglican Nigerian was consecrated a bishop in 1864.
The Anglican Diocese of the South is a diocese of the Anglican Church in North America, encompassing 50 parishes in the American states of Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Kentucky, Mississippi, Missouri, North Carolina, Tennessee and West Virginia, as well as Christ Church Plano, the provincial pro-cathedral under the oversight of Bishop of the South Foley Beach in his capacity as ACNA archbishop.
History George David Cummins, founding bishop. In the 19th century, as the Oxford Movement urged that the Protestant Episcopal Church and the Church of England return to Anglicanism's roots in pre-Reformation Catholic Christianity, George David Cummins, the Assistant Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Kentucky, became concerned about the preservation of Protestant, Evangelical, Reformed, and ...