St. Edmund's Anglican Church

St. Edmund's Anglican Church
Map
LocationElm Grove, Wisconsin
CountryUnited States
DenominationConvocation of Anglicans in North America
History
DedicationEdmund the Martyr
Architecture
Architect(s)William P. Wenzler
StyleMid-century Modern
Completed1957 (1957)

St. Edmund's Anglican Church was a parish of the Convocation of Anglicans in North America in Elm Grove, Wisconsin.[1]

Formerly known as St. Edmund's Episcopal Church, the congregation became in 2008 the first in Wisconsin to withdraw from the Episcopal Church to join the Anglican realignment, a conservative movement of Anglicans in the United States and Canada formed primarily in opposition to the Episcopal Church's support for the ordination of non-celibate gay people.[2]

  1. ^ CANA Welcomes St. Edmund's Anglican Church, Elm Grove, Wisconsin, Pastoral Letter (published), Rt. Rev. Martyn Minns, Herndon, Virginia: December 30, 2008, p. 2.
  2. ^ Annysa Johnson, "Elm Grove church to join Episcopalian break", Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, December 31, 2008.