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| Anglican Catholic Church | |
|---|---|
 Coat of arms of the Anglican Catholic Church | |
| Abbreviation | ACC |
| Classification | Christian |
| Orientation | Anglican |
| Theology | Anglo-Catholicism |
| Polity | Episcopal |
| Metropolitan Archbishop | Mark Haverland |
| Intercommunion | |
| Region | United States, Canada, Africa, Latin America, United Kingdom, Caribbean, Pakistan, Australia & New Zealand, Philippines |
| Origin | 1977 St. Louis, Missouri, U.S. |
| Separated from | the Episcopal Church in the United States and the Anglican Church of Canada |
| Congregations | 250+ |
| Members | 35,000 |
| Official website | www |
The Anglican Catholic Church (ACC), also known as the Anglican Catholic Church (Original Province), is a body of Christians in the continuing Anglican movement, which is separate from the Anglican Communion.[1] This denomination is separate from the Anglican Catholic Church in Australia and the Anglican Catholic Church of Canada.
The continuing Anglican movement, including the Anglican Catholic Church, grew out of the 1977 Congress of St. Louis. The name "Anglican Catholic" is defined as "Anglican – simply means English" and "Catholic – in the ordinary sense means Universal" with the explanation that "The ACC affirms the Canon of St. Vincent of Lérins, who defined the Catholic Faith as, 'That which has been believed everywhere, always and by all' (i.e. universally within the undivided Christian Church)."[2] Within historic Anglicanism the ACC sees itself as "rooted in a Catholic stream of faith and practice that embraces Henrician Catholicism, the theological method of Hooker and the Carolines, the piety and learning of Andrewes, the recovering liturgical practice of the Non-Jurors, the Oxford Movement, through the Ritualists, to modern Anglo-Catholicism."[3]
- ^ What Does it Mean to Be Anglican Catholic?, December 31, 2019, retrieved January 29, 2023
- ^ "History | Anglican Catholic Church". www.anglicancatholic.org.uk. Retrieved July 19, 2022.
- ^ Haverland, Mark (June 2, 2020). "Old High Churchmen and Continuing Anglicans". Anglican Catholic Liturgy and Theology. Retrieved November 9, 2022.