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Do not fill this in! ==History== The Anglican Church in North America was founded by Anglicans who had left the [[Anglican Church of Canada]] and the [[Episcopal Church (United States)|Episcopal Church in the United States]] over concerns that the teaching of those churches had grown more liberal.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/world/2008/1205/1228337450167.html |title=Anglicans escalate split with plan for rival group |work=Irish Times |last=Staunton |first=Denis |date=December 5, 2008 |access-date=December 5, 2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110727041739/http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/world/2008/1205/1228337450167.html |archive-date=July 27, 2011 }}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/front/la-na-episcopal4-2008dec04,0,526783.story |title=Conservatives who fled liberal views of Scripture have formed a breakaway church in North America |newspaper=LA Times |date=December 4, 2008 |access-date=December 5, 2008 |last=Helfand |first=Duke |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081205021354/http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/front/la-na-episcopal4-2008dec04%2C0%2C526783.story |archive-date=December 5, 2008 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="auto">{{cite news|url = http://www.modbee.com/2010/11/20/1437192/breakaway-anglican-diocese-wins.html|title = Breakaway Anglican diocese wins appeal|newspaper = LA Times|date = November 20, 2010|access-date = December 12, 2010|last = Nowicki|first = Sue|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20101203160023/http://www.modbee.com/2010/11/20/1437192/breakaway-anglican-diocese-wins.html|archive-date = 3 December 2010|url-status = dead}}</ref> The new body charged that the two existing churches "have increasingly accommodated and incorporated un-Biblical, un-Anglican practices and teaching".<ref>{{Cite web |title=Our Genesis |url=http://anglicanchurch.net/media/acna_our_genesis_june_2009.pdf |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110725201605/http://anglicanchurch.net/media/acna_our_genesis_june_2009.pdf |archive-date=July 25, 2011 |website=Anglican Church in North America}}</ref> Two major events that contributed to ACNA's formation both involved human sexuality. The first was the 2002 decision of the [[Anglican Diocese of New Westminster|Diocese of New Westminster]] in Canada to authorize a rite of blessing for [[same-sex union]]s; the second was the [[General Convention]]'s ratification of the election of [[Gene Robinson]], an openly gay non-celibate man,<ref>{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7166964.stm|title=BBC NEWS - Americas - US Church 'unfairly criticised'|work=bbc.co.uk|access-date=October 5, 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Gays among candidates for Episcopal bishops - Christian News on Christian Today |url=http://www.christiantoday.com/article/gays.among.candidates.for.episcopal.bishops/23916.htm |access-date=October 5, 2015 |work=[[Christian Today]]|date=August 3, 2009 }}</ref> as [[Episcopal Diocese of New Hampshire|Bishop of New Hampshire]] the following year. Conservative opposition to both the Episcopal Church's 1979 edition of the ''[[Book of Common Prayer]]'' and to the ordination of women priests had led to the founding of an earlier wave of independent Anglican churches, often called the [[Continuing Anglican movement]]. ===Common Cause Partnership=== {{Anglican realignment}} In June 2004, the leaders of six conservative Anglican organizations—the [[Anglican Communion Network]], the [[Reformed Episcopal Church]], the [[Anglican Mission in America]], [[Forward in Faith]] North America, the [[Anglican Province of America]], and the [[American Anglican Council]]—sent a public letter to the [[Archbishop of Canterbury]], pledging "to make common cause for the gospel of Jesus Christ and common cause for a united, missionary and orthodox Anglicanism in North America".<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.sc-acn.net/images/61622/6-6-04CCLettertoABC.pdf |title=Archived copy |access-date=April 29, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140430055847/http://www.sc-acn.net/images/61622/6-6-04CCLettertoABC.pdf |archive-date=April 30, 2014 |url-status=dead }}</ref> They called their alliance the ''Common Cause Partnership'' and drafted a theological statement in 2006.<ref name=statement&articles>[http://www.cflaac.com/documents/Common%20Cause%20Partnership%20Articles.pdf Theological Statement and Articles of the Common Cause Partnership]{{dead link|date=October 2013}}. Revised March 28, 2007. Accessed April 15, 2010.</ref> In September 2007, fifty-one bishops met in [[Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania|Pittsburgh]], [[Pennsylvania]], to discern direction and to bind themselves constitutionally, saying they intended to found an "Anglican union". Some of the bishops present were foreign bishops, including a retired archbishop.<ref>{{cite news|publisher=Episcopal News Service |title=Common Cause Bishops Pledge to Seek Anglican Recognition |url=http://www.episcopalchurch.org/79901_90545_ENG_HTM.htm |date=September 28, 2007 |last=Schjonberg |first=Mary Frances |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071011042829/http://www.episcopalchurch.org/79901_90545_ENG_HTM.htm |archive-date=October 11, 2007 }}</ref> Features of note from the result of the initial meeting include a broad sharing of clergy between the varied groups, an intention to be a "missionary" or [[church-planting]] entity,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.united-anglicans.org/stream/2007/09/first-steps-to-new-structure.html|title=Anglican Bishops Take First Steps to New Structure|publisher=Common Cause Partnership|access-date=April 18, 2009|date=September 28, 2007 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20080225112149/http://www.united-anglicans.org/stream/2007/09/first-steps-to-new-structure.html |archive-date = 2008-02-25}}</ref> and an intention, after a brief time, to seek international organizational recognition.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/30/us/30episcopal.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rss|title=Groups Plan New Branch to Represent Anglicanism|work=The New York Times|date=September 30, 2007 | first=Neela | last=Banerjee | access-date=April 25, 2010}}</ref> Key members of the partnership participated{{citation needed|date=August 2018}} in the June 2008 meeting of conservative Anglicans in Jerusalem, the [[Global Anglican Future Conference]], which in turn prompted the formation of the [[Global Fellowship of Confessing Anglicans]].{{sfn|Thompson|2013|pp=746–749}} A final statement issued by the conference stated that: "we believe the time is now ripe for the formation of a province in North America for the federation currently known as Common Cause Partnership to be recognised by the Primates' Council" of the Anglican Communion.<ref>{{Cite web |date=June 28, 2008 |title=GAFCON Final Statement - Statement on the Global Anglican Future |url=https://www.gafcon.org/news/gafcon_final_statement/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131224175514/https://www.gafcon.org/news/gafcon_final_statement/ |archive-date=December 24, 2013 |website=Global Anglican Future Conference}}</ref> The [[Anglican Province of America]] participated in the partnership until July 2008. ===Establishment=== In December 2008, the partnership met in [[West Chicago, Illinois]], as a constitutional convention to form a "separate ecclesiastical structure in North America" for Anglican faithful distinct from the Episcopal Church and the Anglican Church of Canada.<ref name="ctoday">{{cite web |author= |date=April 23, 2009 |title=Rick Warren to address breakaway Anglicans |url=http://www.christiantoday.com/article/rick.warren.to.address.breakaway.anglicans/23149.htm |website=[[Christianity Today]]}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url = http://www.livingchurch.org/news/news-updates/2008/11/16/convention-planned-to-form-new-anglican-province|title = Convention Planned to Form New Anglican Province|publisher = The Living Church Foundation|date = 2008-11-16|last = Waring|first = Steve|access-date = 2008-11-17|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20090103124411/http://www.livingchurch.org/news/news-updates/2008/11/16/convention-planned-to-form-new-anglican-province|archive-date = 2009-01-03|url-status = dead}}</ref> There the partnership's executive committee approved a provisional constitution and canons for the new church which were to be submitted for formal adoption at the new church's first Provincial Assembly.<ref name="ctoday" /><ref name=const>{{cite web|url = http://www.pitanglican.org/news/local/filesforposting/Provisional%20Constitution%20-%20with%20proposed%20amendments%204-09.pdf|title = Provisional Constitution|publisher = The Common Cause Partnership}}{{dead link|date=October 2013}}</ref>{{sfn|Prichard|2009|p=29}} The members of the Common Cause Partnership at the founding of the ACNA were: {{div col}} * The [[American Anglican Council]] * The [[Anglican Coalition in Canada]] * The [[Anglican Communion Network]] * The [[Anglican Mission in the Americas]] * The [[Anglican Network in Canada]] * The [[Convocation of Anglicans in North America]] * [[Forward in Faith North America]] * The Missionary Convocation of Kenya * The Missionary Convocation of the Southern Cone * The Missionary Convocation of Uganda * The [[Reformed Episcopal Church]] * The Reformed Communion<ref>{{cite web|url=http://reformedcommunion.org/about-us/ |title=About Us |work=Reformed Communion |access-date=October 5, 2015 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151005103455/http://reformedcommunion.org/about-us/ |archive-date=October 5, 2015 }}</ref> {{div col end}} ====Inaugural assembly==== On June 22, 2009, delegates of the ACNA's founding bodies met at [[St. Vincent's Cathedral]] in [[Bedford, Texas]], for an inaugural provincial assembly to ratify its constitution and [[Canon law|canon]]s.<ref name=AssemblyBegins>{{cite web|url= http://www.christiannewswire.com/news/6874610738.html|title=Anglican Church Assembly Begins|author=Christian Newswire|date=June 22, 2009|access-date=August 25, 2009}}</ref> At this meeting, a number of major steps were taken to officially establish the new denomination, including the election of Robert Duncan, bishop of the [[Anglican Diocese of Pittsburgh]], as archbishop.<ref name="page90">{{cite web|url=http://www.acnaassembly.org/index2.php/acna/page/90 |title=Anglican Church in North America officially constituted |author=Anglican Church in North America |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090626042400/http://acnaassembly.org/index2.php/acna/page/90 |archive-date=June 26, 2009 }}</ref><ref name="post-gaz">{{Citation| last =Rodgers | first =Ann | title =Archbishop Duncan shepherds Episcopal spinoff | newspaper = Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | date =June 23, 2009 | url = http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09174/979224-455.stm }}</ref><ref name="relintell">[http://www.religiousintelligence.co.uk/news/?NewsID=4605 Conger, George. "New US Province is formed". ''Religious Intelligence'']. {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090626185029/http://www.religiousintelligence.co.uk/news/?NewsID=4605 |date=June 26, 2009 }}</ref> [[Rick Warren]], a leading American evangelical, and Metropolitan [[Jonah Paffhausen]], leader of the [[Orthodox Church in America]], addressed the audience. There were nine provinces in the Anglican Communion that sent official representatives to the assembly, namely the [[Church of the Province of West Africa]], the [[Church of Nigeria]], the [[Church of Uganda]], the [[Anglican Church of Kenya]], represented by Archbishop [[Benjamin Nzimbi]], the [[Anglican Province of the Southern Cone]], including Archbishop [[Gregory Venables]], the [[Episcopal Church in Jerusalem and the Middle East]], the [[Church of the Province of Myanmar]], the [[Church of the Province of South East Asia]] and the [[Church of the Province of Rwanda]].<ref name="page90" /> Other ecumenical observers included Bishop Walter Grundorf of the [[Anglican Province of America]], Samuel Nafzger of the [[Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod]], and Bishop [[Kevin Vann]] of the [[Roman Catholic Diocese of Fort Worth]]. Leaders from three Anglican provinces, [[John Chew]] of the [[Church of the Province of South East Asia]], Archbishop [[Peter Jensen (bishop)|Peter Jensen]] of the [[Anglican Diocese of Sydney]] and the Fellowship of Confessing Anglicans and [[Mouneer Anis]], Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church in Jerusalem and the Middle East, formally announced support for the ACNA.<ref name="page110">{{Cite web |title=More Anglican Leaders Join Supporters of the Anglican Church in North America |url=http://www.acnaassembly.org/index2.php/acna/page/110 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090628081940/http://acnaassembly.org/index2.php/acna/page/110 |archive-date=June 28, 2009 |website=Anglican Church in North America}}</ref> From England, Bishop [[Wallace Benn]] and Archdeacon Michael Lawson sent greetings from the [[Church of England Evangelical Council]].<ref name="page110" /> ===Anglican Mission and PEARUSA=== The Anglican Mission in the Americas was a founding member of the Anglican Church in North America and, at the same time, maintained its status as a mission of the Church of the Province of Rwanda. This "dual citizenship" was defined by protocol among the Province of Rwanda, the Anglican Mission, and the ACNA.<ref>[http://www.theamia.org/am_cms_media/anglicanmissionprotocolforacnar1.pdf Protocol between Rwanda, the Anglican Mission, and the ACNA]. Accessed May 21, 2010. {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110726051106/http://www.theamia.org/am_cms_media/anglicanmissionprotocolforacnar1.pdf |date=July 26, 2011 }}</ref> However, in a May 18, 2010, communiqué, the Anglican Mission announced its decision to transition from full ACNA membership to "ministry partner" status, a designation provided for in the governing structure of the ACNA, and remain a part of the Rwandan province. Reasons cited for the change were that the "dual citizenship" model had caused "significant confusion within the Anglican Mission and the ACNA regarding membership in two provinces, and more importantly, is inconsistent with the Constitution and Canons of the Province of the Anglican Church in Rwanda".<ref name=AMiAcommunique>[http://www.theamia.org/new/news/ The Anglican Mission's Relationship with the Anglican Church in North America], May 18, 2010. Accessed May 21, 2010. {{webarchive |url=https://archive.today/20130415220710/http://www.theamia.org/new/news/ |date=April 15, 2013 }}</ref> On December 20, 2011, Archbishop Duncan announced that, due to the resignation of the majority of Anglican Mission bishops from the Province of Rwanda on December 5, the Anglican Mission had lost its "ministry partner" status with the ACNA and that most of AMiA's bishops had lost their status in the ACNA's College of Bishops.<ref>Archbishop Duncan, [http://www.anglicanchurch.net/?/main/page/342 "A Pastoral Letter"], December 20, 2011. Accessed December 21, 2011.</ref> Archbishop [[Onesphore Rwaje]] of the [[Anglican Church of Rwanda]] and Archbishop Duncan of the Anglican Church in North America issued a Joint Communiqué on April 28, 2012, to address the future of the AMiA. Meanwhile, the House of the Bishops of Rwanda decided to establish the Missionary District in North America ([[PEARUSA]]) to pursue the same work in the United States. The AMiA members were given three alternatives: join the PEARUSA, join another Anglican jurisdiction through letters dimissory, or remain in the AMiA. A deadline of August 31, 2012, was established for the clergy and the congregations of the AMiA to decide their future.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.anglicanink.com/article/joint-communiqu%C3%A9-archbishop-rwaje-pear-and-archbishop-duncan-anglican-church |title=Joint Communiqué from Archbishop Rwaje of P.E.A.R. and Archbishop Duncan of the Anglican Church, April 28, 2012, Anglican Ink |access-date=May 18, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120508175139/http://anglicanink.com/article/joint-communiqu%C3%A9-archbishop-rwaje-pear-and-archbishop-duncan-anglican-church |archive-date=May 8, 2012 |url-status=dead |df=mdy-all }}</ref> On April 29, 2012, Archbishop [[Henri Isingoma]] expressed his official approval for the temporary admission of the AMiA at the [[Anglican Church of Congo]] until its future was clarified.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://geoconger.wordpress.com/2012/05/04/congo-to-give-a-temporary-home-to-the-amia-the-church-of-england-newspaper-april-29-2012-p-7/|title=Congo to give a temporary home to the AMiA: The Church of England Newspaper, April 29, 2012 p 7|work=Conger|date=May 4, 2012|access-date=October 5, 2015}}</ref> Bishop [[Chuck Murphy (bishop)|Chuck Murphy]], of the AMiA, expressed his will that the fracture between the AMiA and the ACNA could be solved in an answer letter to Archbishop Duncan, on September 8, 2012. On August 14, 2014, it was announced the reopening of conversations between ACNA and AMiA "to discuss broken relationships, and to find ways that produce a faithful witness to Christ that has been undermined in the past". The meeting in which these conversations were started was attended by representatives of both ACNA and AMiA, including Archbishop Foley Beach and Bishop Philip Jones, who replaced Chuck Murphy in December 2013.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.anglicanchurch.net/?/main/page/1088|title=Anglican Church in North America|work=anglicanchurch.net|access-date=October 5, 2015}}</ref> [[PEARUSA]] was a missionary district with equivalent status to a diocese. Upon the unanimous vote of ACNA's Provincial Council on June 21, 2016, PEARUSA was fully transferred to ACNA with two of the three former PEARUSA networks (Mid-Atlantic and Northeast, West) becoming full ACNA dioceses known respectively as the [[Anglican Diocese of Christ Our Hope]] and the [[Anglican Diocese of the Rocky Mountains]].<ref name=":0">{{cite web|url=http://anglicanchurch.net/?/main/page/1254|title=Anglican Church in North America|website=anglicanchurch.net|access-date=June 22, 2016}}</ref><ref name=":1">{{cite web|url=http://www.adhope.org/#!provincial-council-report/vatoi|title=Anglican Diocese of Christ Our Hope{{!}}HOME|website=Anglican Diocese of Christ Our Hope{{!}}HOME|access-date=July 25, 2016}}</ref> The former PEARUSA Southeast network did not become a full, separate ACNA diocese. According to a decision that had been reached at their clergy meeting and released on February 8, 2016,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.anglican.ink/article/pearusa-southeast-network-fold-congregations-acna-dioceses |title=PEARUSA Southeast Network to fold congregations into ACNA dioceses, Anglican Ink, 2 March 2016 |access-date= March 27, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160406232224/http://www.anglican.ink/article/pearusa-southeast-network-fold-congregations-acna-dioceses |archive-date=April 6, 2016 |url-status=dead }}</ref> the 20 parishes of PEARUSA Southeast were folded into the already existing ACNA dioceses.<ref>{{cite web|title = PEARUSA Moves Legally to ACNA, Remains Relationally Connected « PEAR USA|url = http://www.pearusa.org/pearusanews/featured/pearusa-moves-legally-to-acna-remains-relationally-connected|website = www.pearusa.org|access-date = 2015-09-27|archive-date = September 28, 2015|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20150928124234/http://www.pearusa.org/pearusanews/featured/pearusa-moves-legally-to-acna-remains-relationally-connected|url-status = dead}}</ref> ===Other dioceses=== The [[Reformed Episcopal Diocese of the West]] became a convocation at the [[Missionary Diocese of All Saints]], in April 2016, due to their small size. The [[Diocese of Western Canada and Alaska]], who had two parishes in [[British Columbia]], and also included the Missionary District of Cuba, was extinct and incorporated in the [[Diocese of Mid-America]], for similar reasons.{{citation needed|date=September 2021}} The ACNA and the [[Anglican Diocese of South Carolina|Diocese of South Carolina]], which had withdrawn from the Episcopal Church in October 2012 and was under the provisional primatial oversight of the Global South, held a two-day meeting on April 28–29, 2015, at St. Christopher Camp and Conference Center in South Carolina for conversations and examining the "possible compatibility of the ecclesiologies" of both churches.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://anglicanchurch.net/?/main/page/1020|title=Anglican Church in North America|work=anglicanchurch.net|access-date=October 5, 2015}}</ref> The Diocese of South Carolina Affiliation Task Force recommended the affiliation to the ACNA at their 225th Diocesan Convention, held in [[Bluffton, South Carolina|Bluffton]], on March 12, 2016. The affiliation required approval by two future conventions of the diocese.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://anglican.ink/2016/03/12/south-carolina-considers-acna-affiliation-during-225th-diocesan-convention/|title=South Carolina Considers ACNA Affiliation during 225th Diocesan Convention | Anglican Ink © 2023|website=anglican.ink}}</ref> The Diocese of South Carolina voted unanimously to affiliate with ACNA at their 226th Convention, held in [[Summerville, South Carolina|Summerville]], on March 11, 2017. ACNA's Provincial Council voted also unanimously to formally receive the Diocese of South Carolina at ACNA's Third Provincial Assembly, meeting in [[Wheaton, Illinois]], on June 27, 2017.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Ailes |first1=Mary |title=The Diocese of South Carolina votes to affiliate with the Anglican Church in North America |url=http://anglicanchurch.net/?/main/page/1410 |website=Anglican Church in North America |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170312005736/http://anglicanchurch.net/?/main/page/1410 |archive-date=March 12, 2017 |date=March 11, 2017 |url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://anglicanchurch.net/?/main/page/1474|title=Anglican Church in North America|website=anglicanchurch.net|language=en|access-date=June 27, 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.diosc.com/sys/173-news/798-diocese-of-south-carolina-received-by-the-anglican-church-in-north-america|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170628142407/http://www.diosc.com/sys/173-news/798-diocese-of-south-carolina-received-by-the-anglican-church-in-north-america|url-status=dead|archive-date=June 28, 2017|title=Diocese of South Carolina - Diocese of South Carolina Received by the Anglican Church in North America|last=Hunter|first=Joy|website=Diocese of South Carolina|language=en-gb|access-date=June 27, 2017}}</ref> ===Convocation of Anglicans in North America (CANA)=== After the formation of the ACNA, the [[Church of Nigeria]] (Anglican Communion) entered into letters of agreement to formalize relationship between the two provinces. The most recent agreement signed by the ACNA and the Church of Nigeria related to three of the four dioceses that resulted from the [[Convocation of Anglicans in North America]] activity in the United States. The agreement signed on March 12, 2019, allowed for the [[Missionary Diocese of the Trinity]], the [[Missionary Diocese of CANA East]], and the [[Missionary Diocese of CANA West]] to decide their own provincial affiliation. This agreement became necessary as the result of a dispute generated by the election by the Church of Nigeria of four suffragan bishops for the Missionary Diocese of the Trinity, composed mostly of Nigerian expatriates in the United States, without consultation with the ACNA College of Bishops. Until this time, the Church of Nigeria had allowed all four CANA dioceses to be full participating members of the ACNA.<ref>{{cite web |title=Church of Nigeria, Anglican Church in North America Reach Agreement on CANA Dioceses ? |url=http://anglicanchurch.net/?/main/page/1840 |website=Anglican Church in North America |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191001035923/http://anglicanchurch.net/?/main/page/1840 |archive-date=October 1, 2019 |url-status=dead}}</ref> On May 21, 2019, the Missionary Diocese of CANA East announced its decision to withdraw from the Church of Nigeria to become solely a diocese of the Anglican Church in North America, with the new name of the [[Anglican Diocese of the Living Word]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://anglican.ink/2019/05/21/cana-east-withdraws-from-the-church-of-nigeria/|title=CANA East withdraws from the Church of Nigeria | Anglican Ink © 2023|website=anglican.ink}}</ref> The Diocese of CANA West announced their decision to remain a diocese of the Church of Nigeria on May 23, 2019, followed by the Missionary Diocese of the Trinity on the same day. The dioceses remaining with the Church of Nigeria are, by the agreement, considered ministry partners (a formal canonical status) of the ACNA.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://anglican.ink/2019/05/23/cana-west-leaves-acna/|title=CANA West leaves ACNA | Anglican Ink © 2023|website=anglican.ink}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://anglican.ink/2019/05/24/cana-diocese-of-the-trinity-withdraws-from-acna/|title=CANA Diocese of the Trinity withdraws from ACNA | Anglican Ink © 2023|website=anglican.ink}}</ref> The fourth diocese, the Diocese of the Armed Forces and Chaplaincy (CANA), which had become the Jurisdiction of the Armed Forces and Chaplaincy (ACNA) in 2014 by a previous letter of agreement between the Church of Nigeria and the ACNA, was unaffected by this latter agreement since the previous agreement regarding Anglican Chaplains had been solidified through changes in the Canons of the ACNA. The Jurisdiction of the Armed Forces and Chaplaincy continues to function as a full diocesan entity of the ACNA, and in concordat with the Church of Nigeria (CANA).{{citation needed|date=June 2020}} ===Impaired communion=== Bishop [[Jack Iker]] of [[Episcopal Diocese of Fort Worth|Fort Worth]]—one of the founding members of ACNA—announced on 4 November 2017 that his diocese was in [[Full communion|impaired communion]] with the ACNA dioceses that ordained women.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://fwepiscopal.org/bishop/bishop.html|title=The Bishop's Annual Address to the 35th Convention of the Diocese of Fort Worth Saturday, Nov. 4, 2017|last1=Iker|first1=Jack|publisher=The Episcopal Diocese of Fort Worth|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171121201940/http://fwepiscopal.org/bishop/bishop.html|archive-date=November 21, 2017|url-status=dead|access-date=November 21, 2017}}</ref> He said: "Most ACNA bishops and dioceses are opposed to women priests, but as it presently stands, the ACNA Constitution says each diocese can decide if it will ordain women priests or not. We now need to work with other dioceses to amend the Constitution to remove this provision". He continued: {{blockquote|We are in a state of impaired communion because of this issue. The Task Force concluded that "both sides cannot be right." At the conclave, I informed the College of Bishops that I will no longer give consent to the election of any bishop who intends to ordain female priests, nor will I attend the consecration of any such bishop-elect in the future. I have notified the Archbishop of my resignation from all the committees to which I had been assigned to signify that it is no longer possible to have "business as usual" in the College of Bishops due to the refusal of those who are in favor of women priests to at least adopt a moratorium on this divisive practice, for the sake of unity. Bishops who continue to ordain women priests in spite of the received tradition are signs of disunity and division.}} Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page