Anglican Catholic Church of Canada

Anglican Catholic Church of Canada
The Coat of arms of the Anglican Catholic Church of Canada.
Classification	Continuing Anglican
Orientation	Anglo-Catholic
Polity	Episcopal
Associations	Traditional Anglican Communion
Region	Canada
Origin	1977 St. Louis, Missouri
Separated from	Anglican Catholic Church
Congregations	12

The Anglican Catholic Church of Canada (ACCC) (French: Église Catholique Anglicane du Canada) is a Continuing Anglican church that was founded in 1977 by conservative Anglicans who had separated from the Anglican Church of Canada (ACC). It lists fifteen parishes and missions on its website; at its peak, the church listed more than forty parishes in affiliation.

The Anglican Catholic Church of Canada is one of the churches that trace their origins to the Congress of St. Louis, the assembly that inaugurated the Continuing Anglican Movement and produced the Affirmation of St. Louis. The new church adopted the name, "Anglican Catholic Church." Its Canadian diocese shortly thereafter asked for and received a release from that body in order to become a self-governing Canadian church offering a conservative alternative to the more liberal Anglican Church of Canada.

The Anglican Catholic Church of Canada is a founding member of the Traditional Anglican Communion (TAC). The ACCC is the third-largest of the Anglican churches in Canada, after the ACC and the Anglican Church in North America.

The founding members of the Anglican Catholic Church of Canada were dissatisfied with decisions made by the Anglican Church of Canada (ACC) to confer priestly ordination upon women and to make liturgical reforms that would evolve into the Book of Alternative Services. The ACCC continues to maintain an all-male clergy and recently has criticised what it considers to be the parent church's increasing acceptance of homosexuality. The church uses the 1962 Book of Common Prayer exclusively and rejects the possibility of remarriage after divorce.