Church of England in Canada
| Anglican Church of Canada L’Église anglicane du Canada |
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| Primate | Fred Hiltz |
| Headquarters | Church House, Toronto, Ontario, Canada |
| Territory | Canada |
| Members | 545,957 members 1.6 million adherents |
| Website | http://www.anglican.ca/ |
The Anglican Church of Canada (ACC or ACoC) is the Province of the Anglican Communion in Canada. The official French name is l'Église anglicane du Canada. In 2006, the Anglican Church counted 545,957 members on parish rolls in 2,192 congregations organised into approximately 1400 parishes. The 2008 Canadian Census counted 1,831,815 self-identified Anglicans (5 percent of the total Canadian population), making the Anglican Church the third largest Canadian church after the Roman Catholic Church and the United Church of Canada. The Queen of Canada's Canadian Royal Style continues to include the Style Defender of the Faith (French: Défenseur de la Foi), and the Canadian Monarch continues her countenance of two Chapels Royal in the Realm.
Until 1955, the Anglican Church of Canada was known as the Church of England in the Dominion of Canada or simply the Church of England in Canada. In 1977, the church's General Synod adopted l'Église épiscopale du Canada as its French-language name. This name was replaced with the current one, l'Église anglicane du Canada, in 1989; however, the former name is still used in some places along with the new one.
A matter of some confusion for Anglicans elsewhere in the world is that while the Anglican Church of Canada is a province of the Anglican Communion, the Ecclesiastical Province of Canada is merely one of four such ecclesiastical provinces of the Anglican Church of Canada. This confusion is furthered by the fact that Canada has ten civil provinces along with three territories.
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