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The Anglican Province of America (APA) is a Continuing Anglican church in the United States. The church was founded by former members of the Episcopal Church in the United States . History
The Anglican Church in North America is a North American member province of the Global Fellowship of Confessing Anglicans (GAFCON). It is currently divided in 28 dioceses and one special jurisdiction. There are numerous geographically based dioceses and non-geographical dioceses and jurisdictions. Many jurisdictions overlap with each other.
The Anglican Church in North America has not yet requested formal recognition by the Anglican Communion office as a province recognized by the Anglican instruments of communion. [ citation needed ] [ contradictory ] The office of the Archbishop of Canterbury has said it would possibly take years for the ACNA to gain official recognition from ...
The Anglican Church in America (ACA) is a Continuing Anglican church body and the United States branch of the Traditional Anglican Church (TAC). The ACA, which is separate from the Episcopal Church (TEC), is not a member of the Anglican Communion. It comprises five dioceses and around 5,200 members.
Chandler Holder (Chad) Jones, SSC (born April 20, 1971) is an American Continuing Anglican bishop. He is the Presiding Bishop of the Anglican Province of America (APA).. He is a native of Elkin in Surry County, North Carolina, and a graduate of Emory and Henry College (BA) and Duke University Divinity School (MDiv).
The Global Anglican Future Conference of 2008 called the Anglican Church in North America into being. After the Church was organized and constituted in 2009, the GAFCON Primates Council recognized the Anglican Church in North America as a Province of the Anglican Communion and invited Archbishop Robert Duncan to join the Primates Council.
The province was renamed as the Anglican Province of Christ the King in 1991. [5] On July 25, 2007, the bishop and most of the parishes in the Eastern Diocese of the APCK withdrew, joining the Anglican Church in America. [6] However, four of its parishes decided to remain within the APCK.
The Federation of Anglican Churches in the Americas (FACA) is an association of six Continuing Anglican jurisdictions with nearly 600 parishes in the New World. The Federation, which was founded in 2006 to enable a closer association of these and other jurisdictions, does not include any provinces of the Anglican Communion .