Anglican Church in North America

===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.