The American Anglican Council Applauds Virginia Churches’ Faithfulness
AAC Press Release
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
December 20, 2006

The American Anglican Council (AAC) fervently applauds the faithfulness of the nine Diocese of Virginia churches that announced Sunday, December 17, 2006, their plans to disaffiliate from The Episcopal Church (TEC) and affiliate with the Convocation of Anglicans in North America (CANA), the U.S. missionary district of the Anglican Church of Nigeria. The nine churches, with a combined membership of nearly 8,000 and average Sunday attendance of just over 4,300, join four other Diocese of Virginia churches that have disaffiliated from TEC over the past year.

“CANA is growing rapidly, and the AAC joins the Virginia churches in our gratitude to the Church of Nigeria and its archbishop, the Most. Rev. Peter Akinola, for providing much-needed oversight and support during this difficult time in the United States,” said the Rev. Canon David C. Anderson, AAC President and CEO.

TEC has continually rejected biblical orthodoxy over the past four decades, and the speed of its moral and theological decline has increased since General Convention 2006, when the convention failed to adequately respond to the Windsor Report and worldwide Primates’ requests. the rest