Anglican Catholic Church
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The Anglican Catholic Church is a worldwide body of Anglican Christians which grew out of the 1977 Congress of St. Louis. The congress was called in response to decisions made by the Episcopal Church to approve the ordination of women and to issue a heavily revised Book of Common Prayer. As a result of the desire to maintain the Apostolic tradition of male-only clergy and the exclusive use of historical Anglican liturgical forms, the Anglican Church in North America was founded. By 1978, four bishops had been consecrated, and then the church split into three separate churches, the Anglican Catholic Church, the Anglican Province of Christ the King, and the Anglican Catholic Church of Canada.
In 1984, the five dioceses of the Anglican Church of India were received by the Anglican Catholic Church and constituted as its Second Province. Since 1990, the Anglican Catholic Church has expanded to include a bishopric in New Zealand, deaneries in Spain and in South America and twelve dioceses in the Americas, the United Kingdom and Australia. Also during this time period, a large number of parishes left the Anglican Catholic Church to merge with the American Episcopal Church in forming the Anglican Church in America, and it further suffered the loss of over thirty additional parishes which formed themselves into the Holy Catholic Church (Anglican Rite).
Today the Anglican Catholic Church has 135 parish churches and missions. In October 2005, the Most Rev. Mark D. Haverland replaced the Most Rev. Brother John Charles as Archbishop and Metropolitan.
Dioceses
- Diocese of the Mid-Atlantic States (21 parishes)
- Diocese of the Midwest (13 parishes)
- Diocese of New Orleans (18 parishes)
- Diocese of the Holy Trinity (10 parishes)
- Diocese of the Resurrection (7 parishes)
- Diocese of the South (20 parishes)
- Diocese of the United Kingdom (18 parishes)
- Missionary Diocese of Australia (8 parishes)
- Missionary Diocese of the Caribbean (4 parishes)
- Missionary Diocese Of New England (2 parishes)
- Missionary Diocese of New Grenada (8 parishes)
- Missionary Diocese of Southern Africa (6 parishes)
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