North American Anglicans recognized as genuine

Allie Martin
OneNewsNow
4/21/2009

Conservative archbishops representing most of the world's Anglicans have recognized a new North American province that includes congregations and dioceses that left the Episcopal Church USA.

The Anglican Church in North America, which counts 100,000 members in the U.S. and Canada, is led by Archbishop-designate Robert Duncan, the former Episcopal bishop of Pittsburgh. The Anglican Church in North America was recently recognized by the Global Anglican Future Conference, or GAFCON, at its meeting in London. GAFCON's archbishops declared the new province "genuinely Anglican."

Bishop Duncan says the new province includes Anglicans who fled theologically liberal Anglican churches in the U.S. and Canada, adding that members of the Anglican Church in North America sought recognition from leaders of GAFCON. "And the answer was that 'we, as a GAFCON Primates' Council, recognize you in that way. We are delighted at the formation of the new Anglican Church in North America, the new province,'" he explains. the rest