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The Anglican Church in North America ( ACNA) is a Christian denomination in the Anglican tradition in the United States and Canada. It also includes ten congregations in Mexico, [2] two mission churches in Guatemala, [3] and a missionary diocese in Cuba. [4] Headquartered in Ambridge, Pennsylvania, the church reported 977 congregations and ...
The canons are an expansion of the principles laid out in the Constitution and provide a detailed legal framework for the governance of the church. The Original Province is further governed by its own canons and statutes. Each diocese is also governed by its own diocesan canons. The polity of the ACC is episcopal and synodal.
The Anglican Diocese of South Carolina ( ADOSC) is a diocese of the Anglican Church in North America (ACNA). The diocese covers an area of 24 counties in the eastern part of the state of South Carolina. In 2019, it had 18,195 baptized members and 47 parishes. [2] The see city is Charleston, home to the Cathedral of St. Luke and St. Paul .
Members. 7,602 (U.S. and Canada) [1] The Reformed Episcopal Church ( REC) is an Anglican Church. It was founded in 1873 in New York City by George David Cummins, a former bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Church . The REC is a founding member of the Anglican Church in North America (ACNA), and its four U.S. dioceses are member dioceses of ACNA.
The United Episcopal Church of North America ( UECNA) is a church in the Anglican tradition and is part of the Continuing Anglican movement. It is not part of the Anglican Communion . The UECNA describes itself as "embracing the broad base of ceremonial practice inherent in the Historic Anglican Communion" [1] although historically the UECNA ...
At the founding of the Continuing Anglican movement in 1977 at the Congress of St. Louis, a proposed constitution for a new Anglican church in North America was put before the four existing dioceses for ratification. The two which did ratify the constitution later adopted the name Anglican Catholic Church.
He was a founding member of the ACNA House of Bishops and helped write the ACNA Constitution and Canons. Wantland also serves as Assisting Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Fort Worth. He became the first chief justice of the Supreme Court of the Seminole Nation in 2011.
When provisions for a "Special Jurisdiction" in the ACNA canons was created in June 2014, the Diocese of the Armed Forces and Chaplaincy, renamed the Jurisdiction of the Armed Forces and Chaplaincy (JAFC) in 2013, and by a protocol agreement between the Church of Nigeria and the ACNA, became the entity fulfilling the canonical role of the ...