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| Anglican Church in North America | |
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| Classification | Anglican |
| Orientation | Anglo-Catholic, Charismatic and Evangelical orientations |
| Polity | Episcopal |
| Archbishop | Foley Beach |
| Associations | Fellowship of Confessing Anglicans, Global South |
| Region | Canada, United States, Mexico and Cuba |
| Origin | June 22, 2009 Bedford, Texas, United States |
| Separated from | Anglican Church of Canada and Episcopal Church in the United States |
| Merger of | Common Cause Partnership |
| Congregations | c. 1019 (June 2017) |
| Members | c. 134,000 (June 2017) |
| Official website | anglicanchurch |
The Anglican Church in North America (ACNA) is a Christian denomination in the Anglican tradition in the United States and Canada. It also includes some parishes in Mexico and a missionary district in Cuba. Headquartered in Ambridge, Pennsylvania, the church reported 29 dioceses and 966 congregations serving an estimated membership of 111,853 in 2015. The first archbishop of the ACNA was Robert Duncan, who was succeeded by Foley Beach in 2014.
The ACNA was founded in 2009 by former members of the Episcopal Church in the United States and the Anglican Church of Canada who were dissatisfied with liberal doctrinal and social teachings in their former churches, which they considered contradictory to traditional Anglican belief. Prior to 2009, these conservative Anglicans had begun to receive support from a number of Anglican churches (or provinces) outside of North America, especially in the Global South. Several Episcopal dioceses and many individual parishes in both Canada and the United States voted to transfer their allegiance to Anglican provinces in South America and Africa. In 2009, many Anglican groups who had withdrawn from the two North American provinces united to form the Anglican Church in North America.
Unlike the Episcopal Church and the Anglican Church of Canada, the ACNA is not a member province of the Anglican Communion. The Anglican Church in North America, from its inception, has sought full membership in the Anglican Communion, and the church maintains full communion with the provinces of the Anglican Global South.
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