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Overall Missionary Bishop of CANA, 2014 to 2019. Felix Orji: 2011 CANA (suffr.) – I All Nations [9] Dual membership at ACNA and Church of Nigeria College of Bishops ended, became solely a Church of Nigeria bishop, 23 May 2019. Returned to ACNA, October 2022. [16] Eric Menees: 2011 V San Joaquin: Winfield Mott: 2011
The church allows dioceses to decide if they will or will not ordain women as priests, although it does not permit women to become bishops. [39] The College of Bishops released a statement on ordiantion, sharing that the teaching of the ACNA is that the ordination of women to the priesthood "is a recent innovation to Apostolic Tradition and ...
ACNA received Orji and Diocese of All Nations Suffragan Bishop Scott Seely into the college of bishops, and the diocese voted to affiliate with ACNA, although some congregations elected to remain in CONNAM. [21] Two months after his suspension, Ndukuba lifted the suspension and released Orji for service in the ACNA. [22]
ACNA received Orji and Seely into the college of bishops, and the Diocese of the West voted to affiliate with ACNA, although some congregations elected to remain in CONNAM. [2] Ndukuba appointed the Diocese of the West's other suffragan, Celestine Ironna, to oversee congregations remaining with CONNAM on an interim basis. [13]
In 2019, conflict arose between the CON and ACNA leadership. In January, the CON bishops elected four suffragan bishops to serve in the Missionary Diocese of the Trinity, but this election was not submitted to the ACNA college of bishops for consent according to ACNA's canons, with the result that the four bishops, upon consecration, would not ...
A recognized regional network elects a bishop, who is then approved by PEARUSA and by ACNA's college of bishops before being submitted to the PEAR House of Bishops. [15] In 2012, Steve Breedlove of Durham, North Carolina, was elected as the bishop for the northeast regional network and as the first presider of the PEARUSA College of Bishops. [12]
This agreement was the result of the election of four suffragan bishops for the Missionary Diocese of the Trinity, composed mostly of Nigerian expatriates in the United States, by the Church of Nigeria, without the consultation of the ACNA College of Bishops. Until then all the three dioceses were members of both churches.
Bishop(s) Founded Number of Congregations (2023) [1] Membership (2023) [1] Average Sunday Attendance (2023) [1] All Nations: Western and Central United States St. Francis Cathedral El Paso, Texas: Diocesan: Felix Orji Suffragan: Scott Seely: 2011 32 2251 1791 All Saints: Non-geographical Holy Trinity Cathedral Berlin, Maryland: Ordinary ...