 often splinter and recombine. Reports put the number of jurisdictions at somewhere between 20 and 40, mostly in North America, but fewer than a dozen of the churches popularly called "Continuing churches" can be traced back to the meeting in St. Louis.
Unification with the Roman Catholic ChurchEdit
In 2007, the Traditional Anglican Communion and its United States province, the Anglican Church in America, made a formal proposal to the Roman Catholic Church to be admitted into union with the Vatican in a manner that would permit the retention of their Anglican heritage.
Other Anglican churchesEdit
Other Anglican bodies not in communion with the Archbishop of Canterbury include the Reformed Episcopal Church in the United States, which was formed in 1873 in opposition to the advance of Anglo-Catholicism in the Episcopal Church; the Free Church of England, which was founded in England in 1844 for similar reasons; the Anglican Orthodox Church, another Low Church body that was founded in 1963, and the Orthodox Anglican Communion founded by the AOC in 1967. These churches are not universally considered to be Continuing Anglican churches because they were founded prior to the beginning of the Continuing Anglican movement of the 1970s; however, they relate to the Continuing churches on a number of levels and have similarities in beliefs and practices.
The following is a list of church bodies commonly called "Continuing Anglican", with the approximate number of North American parishes shown in parentheses. Some also have affiliated churches in other countries.
- American Anglican Church (12)
- Anglican Catholic Church (135)
- Anglican Catholic Church of Canada (42)
- Anglican Churches of America (2)
- Anglican Church in America (100)
- Anglican Church of Virginia (8)
- Anglican Episcopal Church (4)
- Anglican Orthodox Church (12)
- Anglican Province of America (76)
- Anglican Province of Christ the King (44)
- Christian Episcopal Church (5)
- Diocese of the Great Lakes (5)
- Diocese of the Holy Cross (21)
- Episcopal Missionary Church (30)
- Holy Catholic Church (Anglican Rite) (25)
- Holy Catholic Church-Western Rite (2)
- Orthodox Anglican Church (18)
- Southern Episcopal Church (3)
- United Anglican Church (10)
- United Episcopal Church of North America (16)
The following seminaries are associated with the Continuing Anglican movement:
- Anglican Seminary of Virginia, Front Royal, Virginia
- St. Andrew's Theological College and Seminary, Lexington, North Carolina
- St. Joseph of Arimathea Anglican Theological College, Berkeley, California
- Seminario Mayor Provincial
- ↑ Conservative Anglicans Create Rival Church by Timothy C. Morgan, 12/04/2008, Christianity Today
- ↑ AnglicansOnline Listing of Anglican groups not in the Communion
- ↑ What is "To Be In Communion"? by Daniel J. Webster, January 22, 2004
- ↑ Affirmation of St. Louis
- ↑ Translations and Theology by Fr. Robert Hart
- ↑ ACC and United Episcopal Church Sign Communion Agreement
- ↑ Common Cause Appalachia
- ↑ http://www.challengeonline.org/modules/news/article.php?storyid=106
- Divided We Stand: A History of the Continuing Anglican Movement by Douglas Bess, Tractarian Press, 2002, ISBN 0-9719636-0-6. Revised edition, Apocryphile Press, September 2006, ISBN 1-933993-10-3
- List of churches not in the Anglican Communion, at anglicansonline.org. Includes weblinks for most of the Continuing Anglican churches and some other non-Anglican churches. Some of those listed are now defunct.
- The Measure of A Bishop: The Episcopi Vagantes, Apostolic Succession, and the Legitimacy of the Anglican "Continuing Church" Movement. A master's degree thesis, written by a student at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary, containing historical information on Continuing Anglican and related churches.
- Shelter in the Storm Safe Church List of traditional/Orthodox Anglican churches
- Fellowship of Concerned Churchmen Directories of Parishes & Jurisdictions