Anglican Catholic Church

Anglican Catholic Church
Coat of arms of the Anglican Catholic Church
AbbreviationACC
ClassificationChristian
OrientationAnglican
TheologyAnglo-Catholicism
PolityEpiscopal
Metropolitan ArchbishopMark Haverland
Intercommunion
RegionUnited States, Canada, Africa, Latin America, United Kingdom, Caribbean, Pakistan, Australia & New Zealand, Philippines
Origin1977
St. Louis, Missouri, U.S.
Separated fromthe Episcopal Church in the United States and the
Anglican Church of Canada
Congregations250+
Members35,000
Official websitewww.anglicancatholic.org Edit this at Wikidata
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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]

  1. ^ What Does it Mean to Be Anglican Catholic?, December 31, 2019, retrieved January 29, 2023
  2. ^ "History | Anglican Catholic Church". www.anglicancatholic.org.uk. Retrieved July 19, 2022.
  3. ^ Haverland, Mark (June 2, 2020). "Old High Churchmen and Continuing Anglicans". Anglican Catholic Liturgy and Theology. Retrieved November 9, 2022.