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The Anglican Church in North America (ACNA) is a Christian denomination in the Anglican tradition in the United States and Canada. It also includes ten congregations in Mexico, [2] two mission churches in Guatemala, [3] and a missionary diocese in Cuba. [4]
The Anglican Church in America (ACA) is a Continuing Anglican church body and the United States branch of the Traditional Anglican Church (TAC). The ACA, which is separate from the Episcopal Church (TEC), is not a member of the Anglican Communion. It comprises five dioceses and around 5,200 members.
In the Seventeenth Session of the General Synod of the Anglican Church of Australia in 2017, the Anglican Church of Australia passed a motion recognising "that the doctrine of our church, in line with traditional Christian teaching, is that marriage is an exclusive and lifelong union of a man and a woman, and further, recognises that this has ...
The American Anglican Church (AAC) is a Continuing Anglican jurisdiction that counts at present thirteen parishes and missions in North America. It was founded later in the history of the Continuing Anglican movement, ultimately deriving from controversies in the Episcopal Church .
The history of Christianity and homosexuality has been much debated. [2] The Hebrew Bible and its traditional interpretations in Judaism and Christianity have historically affirmed and endorsed a patriarchal and heteronormative approach towards human sexuality; [3] [4] throughout the majority of Christian history, most Christian theologians and denominations have considered homosexual behavior ...
The term "Continuing Anglicanism" refers to a number of church bodies which have formed outside of the Anglican Communion in the belief that traditional forms of Anglican faith, worship, and order have been unacceptably revised or abandoned within some Anglican Communion churches in recent decades. They therefore claim that they are "continuing ...
Bishops never grant permission "to those requesting to be married in a garden, on the beach, or some other place outside of the church" and a dispensation is only granted "in extraordinary circumstances (for example, if a bride or groom is ill or disabled and unable to come to the church)". [130] Marriage in the church, for Christians, is seen ...
The Diocese of Churches for the Sake of Others (C4SO) is a non-geographical diocese of the Anglican Church in North America.Formed as a diocese in 2013, C4SO originated as the West Coast church planting initiative in the Anglican Mission in the Americas but today has member churches across the United States.