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The Anglican Diocese of the South is a diocese of the Anglican Church in North America, encompassing 50 parishes in the American states of Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Kentucky, Mississippi, Missouri, North Carolina, Tennessee and West Virginia, as well as Christ Church Plano, the provincial pro-cathedral under the oversight of Bishop of the South Foley Beach in his capacity as ACNA archbishop. [2]
The 2017 average Sunday attendance was an increase from statistics reported in 2009, the year the church was founded when the church reported 703 congregations and an average Sunday attendance of 69,167. [94] [95] However, in 2018, the average Sunday attendance was 88,048. [96]
It traces its history to 1733, when Christ Church was founded as the oldest Anglican presence in Georgia. In 2006, the majority of the clergy and parishioners of Christ Church departed from the Episcopal Diocese of Georgia ; in 2012, after a loss in a court case, the congregation leaving the Episcopal Church relocated and renamed itself Christ ...
After the birth of the Anglican Church in North America, the now called Anglican Alliance of North Florida and South Georgia reunited at Advent Christian Village, in Dowling Park, Florida, in a move to pass from a "Diocese in creation" to a full diocese in the newly created church, on August 29, 2009. In the reunion, 47 clergy delegates and 39 ...
Opposition to the ordination of women priests and to theological revisions incorporated into the Episcopal Church's 1979 Book of Common Prayer led to the formation of the Continuing Anglican movement in 1977; and opposition to the consecration of the first ever openly homosexual bishop led to the creation of the Anglican Church in North America ...
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St. Alban's Cathedral in Oviedo, Florida. The Presiding Bishop of the APA from its founding until 2021 was Walter Howard Grundorf, who was consecrated on October 3, 1991, by the Rt. Rev. Robert William Stanley Mercer, CR, sometime Bishop of Matabeleland in the Province of Central Africa, the Rt. Rev. Robert Herbert Mize, Junior, sometime Bishop of Damaraland in the Province of Southern Africa ...
Alabama, Florida, Georgia St. Peter's Anglican Cathedral, Tallahassee: Jacksonville: Diocesan: Alex Farmer Assisting: Neil Lebhar, John E. Miller III: 2009 38 6426 3859 Living Word: Non-geographical Bishop Seabury Anglican Church, Gales Ferry, CT‡ McLean, Virginia: Diocesan: Julian Dobbs Assisting: William Love: 2013 42 2537 1677 Mid-America ...