| Anglican Church of Canada Église anglicane du Canada | |
|---|---|
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| Classification | Protestant[nb 1] |
| Orientation | Anglican |
| Scripture | Holy Bible |
| Theology | Anglican doctrine |
| Polity | Episcopal |
| Primate | Anne Germond (Acting) |
| Parishes | 1,498[1] |
| Associations | Anglican Communion |
| Full communion | Church of South India Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada Mar Thoma Syrian Church Moravian Church Northern Province |
| Region | Canada |
| Liturgy | 1962 Book of Common Prayer, Book of Alternative Services |
| Headquarters | 80 Hayden Street Toronto, Ontario, Canada |
| Branched from | Church of England |
| Separations | Anglican Church in North America (2009) Personal Ordinariate of the Chair of Saint Peter (2012) |
| Members | 294,931 on parish rolls (2022)[1] |
| Official website | anglican.ca |
The Anglican Church of Canada (ACC or ACoC) is the province of the Anglican Communion in Canada.[2] The official French-language name is l'Église anglicane du Canada.[3][4] In 2022, the Anglican Church counted 294,931 members on parish rolls in 1,978 congregations, organized into 1,498 parishes.[1][5] The 2021 Canadian census counted 1,134,315 self-identified Anglicans (3.1 percent of the total Canadian population), making the Anglican Church the third-largest Canadian church after the Catholic Church and the United Church of Canada.[6][7][8]
Like other Anglican churches, the Anglican Church of Canada's liturgy utilizes a native version of the Book of Common Prayer, the 1962 prayer book. An alternative liturgical resource was developed in 1985 titled the Book of Alternative Services, which has developed into the dominant liturgical book of the church.
Unlike in the United Kingdom, the past[9] title of "Defender of the Faith" in the title of the Canadian sovereign did not officially refer to the Christian faith, or to the Anglican Church of Canada. However, two out of three Chapels Royal in Canada are consecrated Anglican chapels.
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- ^ a b c Elliot, Neil (15 March 2024). "Dioceses of the ACC – by numbers". Numbers Matters. (Neil Elliot is the statistics officer for the Anglican Church of Canada.). Retrieved 17 March 2024.
- ^ Office, Anglican Communion. "Member Churches". Anglicancommunion.org. Retrieved 1 July 2016.
- ^ "Historical Notes" (PDF). Anglican Church of Canada. p. 191, section 21. Archived from the original (PDF file) on 13 February 2005. Retrieved 2 August 2017.
- ^ "L'Église anglicane du Canada". montreal.anglican.org. Retrieved 2 August 2017.
- ^ Elliot, Neil (5 March 2024). "Anglican Church of Canada – the state of the church". Numbers Matters. (Neil Elliot is the statistics officer of the Anglican Church of Canada.). Retrieved 17 March 2024.
- ^ "Profile Table, Census Profile, 2021 Census of Population- Canada [Country]". Statistics Canada. Retrieved 29 August 2023.
- ^ 2021 is the most recent census to collect information on religion in Canada. Statistics Canada: "Please note that information about religion is only collected once every 10 years."
- ^ "Number of Canadian Anglicans, Parishes and Congregations". The Anglican Church of Canada. Retrieved 6 March 2019.
- ^ Woolf, Marie (18 April 2023). "King's Canadian title – dropping defender of the faith – is break with tradition: Church figures, constitutional experts". The Globe and Mail.