Anglican Leaders Begin Forming New Church in North America

By Jeremy Reynalds
4 décembre 2008

Bishops, clergy and lay leaders from the United States and Canada unveiled a provisional constitution and the first set of canons for the new Anglican Church in North America at a news conference and worship service Wednesday at Wheaton Evangelical Free Church in suburban Chicago.

A news release reported that the movement unites 700 orthodox Anglican congregations, representing about 100,000 people, in an organization that members believe will be recognized as a province – the Anglican term for the church’s largest regional jurisdictions – by many of the world’s Anglican leaders. the rest