Anglican Church in North America

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The Anglican Church in North America (ACNA) is a Christian denomination in the Anglican tradition in the United States and Canada. It also includes ten congregations in Mexico, two mission churches in Guatemala, and a missionary diocese in Cuba. Headquartered in Ambridge, Pennsylvania, the church reported 1,005 congregations and 129,868 members in 2025. The ACNA is not a member church of the Anglican Communion but has an association with a number of provinces and leaders of the communion. The ACNA was founded in 2009 by theological conservatives of the Episcopal Church in the United States and the Anglican Church of Canada, who were dissatisfied with doctrinal and social teachings in their former churches, especially regarding the position of women and the ordination of an openly gay bishop, which they considered too liberal and contradictory to traditional Anglican belief (similarly to the Reformed Episcopal Church, which had separated from the Episcopal Church in 1873). Immediately prior...

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