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 | 983 (2013) |
| Members | c. 112,504 (2013) |
| Official website | anglicanchurch.net |
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 reports that it has 29 dioceses and 983 congregations serving an estimated membership of 112,504. 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 increasingly 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 In 2009, many Anglican groups who had withdrawn from the two North American provinces united to form the Anglican Church in North America.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. From its inception, however, it has sought full membership in the Communion, and the church does maintain full communion with seven Anglican Communion provinces.
The ACNA has attempted to incorporate the full spectrum of conservative Anglicanism within Canada and the United States. As a result, it accommodates Anglo-Catholic, charismatic, and evangelical theological orientations. It also includes those who oppose and those who support women's ordination. Women can serve as clergy members in some dioceses, while other dioceses maintain an exclusively male clergy. Women are ineligible to serve as bishops. The ACNA defines Christian marriage exclusively as a lifelong union between a man and a woman and consequently condemns homosexual relationships that are non-celibate as sinful. The church holds a pro-life position on abortion and euthanasia.
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