Anglican Catholic Church of Canada

The Anglican Catholic Church of Canada is one of the churches that trace their origins to the Congress of St. Louis, the assembly that inaugurated the Continuing Anglican Movement and produced the Affirmation of St. Louis.{{Cite web |date=2017-02-23 |title=About |url=https://www.anglicancatholic.ca/who-are-we/ |access-date=2023-04-21 |website=ACCC |language=en-CA}} The new church adopted the name, "Anglican Catholic Church." Its Canadian diocese shortly thereafter asked for and received a release from that body in order to become a self-governing Canadian church offering a traditional alternative to the more liberal Anglican Church of Canada.{{Cite web |date=2006-07-13 |title=From Denver |url=http://www.orthodoxanglican.org/tcc/42-2/DenverToDallas.htm |access-date=2023-04-21 |archive-date=2006-07-13 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060713033927/http://www.orthodoxanglican.org/tcc/42-2/DenverToDallas.htm |url-status=bot: unknown }}

The Anglican Catholic Church of Canada is a founding member of the Traditional Anglican Communion (TAC), established in 1990.{{Cite web|url=http://www.anglicancatholic.ca|title=Anglican Catholic Church of Canada - Home Page|website=Anglican Catholic Church of Canada}} The ACCC is the third-largest of the Anglican churches in Canada, after the Anglican Church of Canada and the Anglican Church in North America.{{cn|date=December 2011}}

The founding members of the Anglican Catholic Church of Canada were dissatisfied with decisions made by the Anglican Church of Canada (ACC) to confer priestly ordination upon women and to make liturgical reforms that would evolve into the Book of Alternative Services. The ACCC continues to maintain an all-male clergy and recently has criticised what it considers to be the parent church's increasing acceptance of homosexuality. The church uses the 1962 Book of Common Prayer exclusively and rejects the possibility of remarriage after divorce.

The ACCC has parishes and missions throughout Canada. Most ACCC congregations are small, but the church continues to experience growth, particularly in the larger centres. The first bishop of the ACCC was Bishop Carmino de Catanzaro, who served until his death in 1983.{{Cite web |title=Anglican Churches |url=https://www.encyclopedia.com/religion/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/anglican-churches-0 |access-date=2023-05-02 |website=Encyclopedia.com}} The successive bishops, in order, were Bishop Alfred Woolcock, Bishop Robert Mercer, and Bishop Peter Wilkinson.{{Cite web |last=Gyapong |first=Deborah |date=February 11, 2007 |title=Anglican Catholic Church consecrates two bishops |url=https://www.catholicregister.org/item/8465-anglican-catholic-church-consecrates-two-bishops |access-date=2023-04-29 |website=The Catholic Register |language=en-ca}} In March 2013, the Very Reverend Shane Janzen was consecrated fifth diocesan and metropolitan bishop in Victoria, British Columbia. On November 1, 2014, the ACCC created two dioceses, one for the Western Canada (Diocese of Canada West) and one for the East (Diocese of Canada East), each with its own Bishop Ordinary.{{Cite web |date=2013-03-10 |title=Bishops |url=https://www.anglicancatholic.ca/the-house-of-bishops-of-the-accc/ |access-date=2023-04-21 |website=ACCC |language=en-CA}} On October 14, 2016, the college of bishops elected Archbishop Shane B. Janzen as the third primate of the Traditional Anglican Communion.

Until 2012, the TAC discussed a form of union with the Roman Catholic Church and stated that it had no doctrinal differences with Rome sufficient to prevent the success of this proposal.{{Cite web |url=http://www.catholicnews.com/data/stories/cns/0506488.htm |title=When Anglicans, Catholics switch churches, what happens to dialogue? |access-date=2008-06-10 |archive-url=http://webarchive.loc.gov/all/20051117003830/http://www.catholicnews.com/data/stories/cns/0506488.htm |archive-date=2005-11-17 |url-status=dead }}{{Cite web |url=http://www.themessenger.com.au/news01_02%202006.htm |title=Rome and the TAC |access-date=2008-06-10 |archive-date=2008-07-19 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080719120247/http://themessenger.com.au/news01_02%202006.htm |url-status=dead }} In October 2009, the ACCC welcomed an initiative from Pope Benedict XVI to create personal ordinariates for Anglicans.[https://ottawacitizen.com/life/Anglicans+welcome+Pope+overture/2131070/story.html Anglicans welcome Pope's overture] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091025043547/http://www.ottawacitizen.com/life/Anglicans%2Bwelcome%2BPope%2Boverture/2131070/story.html |date=October 25, 2009 }} On March 12, 2010, the ACCC formally requested the erection of an ordinariate in Canada.[http://anglicancatholic.ca/documents/2010-03-12-petition-cardinal-levada.pdf The petition to the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100821182806/http://anglicancatholic.ca/documents/2010-03-12-petition-cardinal-levada.pdf |date=August 21, 2010 }} Subsequent to the petition, seven of thirty-five parish groups (one fifth) removed themselves from the ACCC. To provide a means for some clergy and laity to join the Roman Catholic Church, in November 2011 the ACCC divided into two non-geographical dioceses: the original Diocese of Canada (for parishes and individuals not entering the ordinariate) and the Pro-Diocese of Our Lady of Walsingham (for parishes and individuals entering the ordinariate). On April 15, 2012, Bishop Peter Wilkinson and Bishop Carl Reid resigned their episcopal office and orders, and were received into the Roman Catholic Church as laymen. Bishop Craig Botterill became apostolic administrator until the election of the new diocesan bishop, the Right Reverend Shane Janzen, in November 2012. The remaining Diocese of Canada explicitly stated that it "will remain an Anglican church"{{Cite web |url=http://www.ccsje.org/?page_id=431 |title=Pastoral letter from Craig Botterill, Suffragan Bishop and Apostolic Administrator, Diocese of Canada, January 11, 2012 |access-date=January 23, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130419001456/http://www.ccsje.org/?page_id=431 |archive-date=April 19, 2013 |url-status=dead }} and not enter the Personal Ordinariate of the Chair of Saint Peter.

In 2017, four Continuing Anglican churches in America, the Anglican Catholic Church, the Anglican Province of America, the Diocese of the Holy Cross, and the Anglican Church in America (TAC) signed a communio in sacris agreement, pledging to pursue corporate unity. The bishops of the Anglican Catholic Church of Canada released a statement that "it is our hope and prayer that this initiative will lead to further ecumenical dialogue, cooperation and reconciliation between and among the Continuing Anglican Churches around the world, as well as here in Canada."{{Cite web |title=Statement to the Clergy and Laity of the Anglican Catholic Church of Canada |url=http://www.anglicancatholic.ca/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/To-ACCC-re-Joint-Synods.pdf}}

On 16 February 2022, it was announced that the TAC has entered into an agreement of full sacramental communion (communio in sacris) with the Anglican Province of America.{{Cite web |title=Continuing Anglicans come together as APA and TAC Sign Communion agreement |url=https://anglicancatholic.org/news/continuing-anglicans-come-together-as-apa-and-tac-sign-communion-agreement/ |access-date=2023-04-21 |website=anglicancatholic.org |language=en}}

Saint Bede’s Anglican Catholic Theological College was established in 2001 to serve the needs of the Anglican Catholic Church of Canada and Traditional Anglican Church as well as other Continuing Anglican Churches. It offers courses leading to Bachelor in Theology (B.Th.), Master of Divinity (M.Div.), or Master of Theological Studies (M.T.S) degrees.{{Cite web |date=2015-09-01 |title=Programs |url=https://sbactc.org/course-of-studies/ |access-date=2022-11-08 |website=Saint Bede's Anglican Catholic Theological College |language=en}} In 2018 Saint Bede’s Anglican Catholic Theological College was accredited by Accreditation Service for International Schools, Colleges and Universities (ASIC).{{Cite web |title=Saint Bede's Anglican Catholic Theological College |url=https://sbactc.org/ |access-date=2022-11-08 |website=Saint Bede's Anglican Catholic Theological College |language=en}}{{Cite web |last=Janzen |first=Archbishop Shane B. |date=2018-05-06 |title=St. Bede's College Granted Accreditation |url=https://www.anglicanchurchinamerica.org/single-post/2018/05/05/st-bede-s-college-granted-accreditation |access-date=2023-05-15 |website=aca-site |language=en}}

The Anglican Catholic Church of Canada issues a newsletter called The Anglican Catholic Chronicle, containing news and information.{{Cite web |date=2013-06-24 |title=News |url=https://www.anglicancatholic.ca/news/ |access-date=2023-04-21 |website=ACCC |language=en-CA}}

• [http://www.anglicancatholic.ca Anglican Catholic Church of Canada official website]
• [http://www.ccsje.org Cathedral Church of Saint John the Evangelist, Victoria, British Columbia]
• [https://www.youtube.com/@accctac/about Official Youtube channel]

• Warner, C. V. (2010). Recognizing Anglican Catholic identity: an historical review of the Anglican Catholic Movement, the affirmation of St. Louis and the traditional Anglican Communion. https://scholar.acadiau.ca/node/1487

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