Anglican Church in North America

The Anglican Church in North America was founded by Anglicans who had left the Anglican Church of Canada and the Episcopal Church in the United States over concerns that the teaching of those churches had grown more liberal.{{cite news|url=https://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/world/2008/1205/1228337450167.html |title=Anglicans escalate split with plan for rival group |work=Irish Times |last=Staunton |first=Denis |date=December 5, 2008 |access-date=December 5, 2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110727041739/http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/world/2008/1205/1228337450167.html |archive-date=July 27, 2011 }}{{cite news|url=https://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/front/la-na-episcopal4-2008dec04,0,526783.story |title=Conservatives who fled liberal views of Scripture have formed a breakaway church in North America |newspaper=LA Times |date=December 4, 2008 |access-date=December 5, 2008 |last=Helfand |first=Duke |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081205021354/http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/front/la-na-episcopal4-2008dec04%2C0%2C526783.story |archive-date=December 5, 2008 |url-status=live }}{{cite news|url = http://www.modbee.com/2010/11/20/1437192/breakaway-anglican-diocese-wins.html|title = Breakaway Anglican diocese wins appeal|newspaper = LA Times|date = November 20, 2010|access-date = December 12, 2010|last = Nowicki|first = Sue|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20101203160023/http://www.modbee.com/2010/11/20/1437192/breakaway-anglican-diocese-wins.html|archive-date = 3 December 2010|url-status = dead}} The new body charged that the two existing churches "have increasingly accommodated and incorporated un-Biblical, un-Anglican practices and teaching".{{Cite web |title=Our Genesis |url=http://anglicanchurch.net/media/acna_our_genesis_june_2009.pdf |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110725201605/http://anglicanchurch.net/media/acna_our_genesis_june_2009.pdf |archive-date=July 25, 2011 |website=Anglican Church in North America}}

Two major events that contributed to ACNA's formation both involved human sexuality. The first was the 2002 decision of the Diocese of New Westminster in Canada to authorize a rite of blessing for same-sex unions; the second was the General Convention's ratification of the election of Gene Robinson, an openly gay non-celibate man,{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7166964.stm|title=BBC NEWS - Americas - US Church 'unfairly criticised'|work=bbc.co.uk|access-date=October 5, 2015}}{{cite web |title=Gays among candidates for Episcopal bishops - Christian News on Christian Today |url=http://www.christiantoday.com/article/gays.among.candidates.for.episcopal.bishops/23916.htm |access-date=October 5, 2015 |work=Christian Today|date=August 3, 2009 }} as Bishop of New Hampshire the following year. Conservative opposition to both the Episcopal Church's 1979 edition of the Book of Common Prayer and to the ordination of women priests had led to the founding of an earlier wave of independent Anglican churches, often called the Continuing Anglican movement.

{{Anglican realignment}}

In June 2004, the leaders of six conservative Anglican organizations—the Anglican Communion Network, the Reformed Episcopal Church, the Anglican Mission in America, Forward in Faith North America, the Anglican Province of America, and the American Anglican Council—sent a public letter to the Archbishop of Canterbury, pledging "to make common cause for the gospel of Jesus Christ and common cause for a united, missionary and orthodox Anglicanism in North America".{{cite web |url=http://www.sc-acn.net/images/61622/6-6-04CCLettertoABC.pdf |title=Archived copy |access-date=April 29, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140430055847/http://www.sc-acn.net/images/61622/6-6-04CCLettertoABC.pdf |archive-date=April 30, 2014 |url-status=dead }} They called their alliance the Common Cause Partnership and drafted a theological statement in 2006.[http://www.cflaac.com/documents/Common%20Cause%20Partnership%20Articles.pdf Theological Statement and Articles of the Common Cause Partnership]{{dead link|date=October 2013}}. Revised March 28, 2007. Accessed April 15, 2010.

In September 2007, fifty-one bishops met in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, to discern direction and to bind themselves constitutionally, saying they intended to found an "Anglican union". Some of the bishops present were foreign bishops, including a retired archbishop.{{cite news|publisher=Episcopal News Service |title=Common Cause Bishops Pledge to Seek Anglican Recognition |url=http://www.episcopalchurch.org/79901_90545_ENG_HTM.htm |date=September 28, 2007 |last=Schjonberg |first=Mary Frances |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071011042829/http://www.episcopalchurch.org/79901_90545_ENG_HTM.htm |archive-date=October 11, 2007 }} Features of note from the result of the initial meeting include a broad sharing of clergy between the varied groups, an intention to be a "missionary" or church-planting entity,{{cite web|url=http://www.united-anglicans.org/stream/2007/09/first-steps-to-new-structure.html|title=Anglican Bishops Take First Steps to New Structure|publisher=Common Cause Partnership|access-date=April 18, 2009|date=September 28, 2007 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20080225112149/http://www.united-anglicans.org/stream/2007/09/first-steps-to-new-structure.html |archive-date = 2008-02-25}} and an intention, after a brief time, to seek international organizational recognition.{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/30/us/30episcopal.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rss|title=Groups Plan New Branch to Represent Anglicanism|work=The New York Times|date=September 30, 2007 | first=Neela | last=Banerjee | access-date=April 25, 2010}}

Key members of the partnership participated{{citation needed|date=August 2018}} in the June 2008 meeting of conservative Anglicans in Jerusalem, the Global Anglican Future Conference, which in turn prompted the formation of the Global Fellowship of Confessing Anglicans.{{sfn|Thompson|2013|pp=746–749}} A final statement issued by the conference stated that: "we believe the time is now ripe for the formation of a province in North America for the federation currently known as Common Cause Partnership to be recognised by the Primates' Council" of the Anglican Communion.{{Cite web |date=June 28, 2008 |title=GAFCON Final Statement - Statement on the Global Anglican Future |url=https://www.gafcon.org/news/gafcon_final_statement/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131224175514/https://www.gafcon.org/news/gafcon_final_statement/ |archive-date=December 24, 2013 |website=Global Anglican Future Conference}}

The Anglican Province of America participated in the partnership until July 2008.

In December 2008, the partnership met in West Chicago, Illinois, as a constitutional convention to form a "separate ecclesiastical structure in North America" for Anglican faithful distinct from the Episcopal Church and the Anglican Church of Canada.{{cite web |author= |date=April 23, 2009 |title=Rick Warren to address breakaway Anglicans |url=http://www.christiantoday.com/article/rick.warren.to.address.breakaway.anglicans/23149.htm |website=Christianity Today}}{{cite web|url = http://www.livingchurch.org/news/news-updates/2008/11/16/convention-planned-to-form-new-anglican-province|title = Convention Planned to Form New Anglican Province|publisher = The Living Church Foundation|date = 2008-11-16|last = Waring|first = Steve|access-date = 2008-11-17|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20090103124411/http://www.livingchurch.org/news/news-updates/2008/11/16/convention-planned-to-form-new-anglican-province|archive-date = 2009-01-03|url-status = dead}} There the partnership's executive committee approved a provisional constitution and canons for the new church which were to be submitted for formal adoption at the new church's first Provincial Assembly.{{cite web|url = http://www.pitanglican.org/news/local/filesforposting/Provisional%20Constitution%20-%20with%20proposed%20amendments%204-09.pdf|title = Provisional Constitution|publisher = The Common Cause Partnership}}{{dead link|date=October 2013}}{{sfn|Prichard|2009|p=29}}

The members of the Common Cause Partnership at the founding of the ACNA were:

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• The American Anglican Council
• The Anglican Coalition in Canada
• The Anglican Communion Network
• The Anglican Mission in the Americas
• The Anglican Network in Canada
• The Convocation of Anglicans in North America
• Forward in Faith North America
• The Missionary Convocation of Kenya
• The Missionary Convocation of the Southern Cone
• The Missionary Convocation of Uganda
• The Reformed Episcopal Church
• The Reformed Communion{{cite web|url=http://reformedcommunion.org/about-us/ |title=About Us |work=Reformed Communion |access-date=October 5, 2015 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151005103455/http://reformedcommunion.org/about-us/ |archive-date=October 5, 2015 }}

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On June 22, 2009, delegates of the ACNA's founding bodies met at St. Vincent's Cathedral in Bedford, Texas, for an inaugural provincial assembly to ratify its constitution and canons.{{cite press release|url= http://www.christiannewswire.com/news/6874610738.html|title=Anglican Church Assembly Begins|author=Christian Newswire|date=June 22, 2009|access-date=August 25, 2009}} At this meeting, a number of major steps were taken to officially establish the new denomination, including the election of Robert Duncan, bishop of the Anglican Diocese of Pittsburgh, as archbishop.{{cite web|url=http://www.acnaassembly.org/index2.php/acna/page/90 |title=Anglican Church in North America officially constituted |author=Anglican Church in North America |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090626042400/http://acnaassembly.org/index2.php/acna/page/90 |archive-date=June 26, 2009 }}{{Citation| last =Rodgers | first =Ann | title =Archbishop Duncan shepherds Episcopal spinoff | newspaper = Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | date =June 23, 2009 | url = http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09174/979224-455.stm }}[http://www.religiousintelligence.co.uk/news/?NewsID=4605 Conger, George. "New US Province is formed". Religious Intelligence]. {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090626185029/http://www.religiousintelligence.co.uk/news/?NewsID=4605 |date=June 26, 2009 }}

Rick Warren, a leading American evangelical, and Metropolitan Jonah Paffhausen, leader of the Orthodox Church in America, addressed the audience. There were nine provinces in the Anglican Communion that sent official representatives to the assembly, namely the Church of the Province of West Africa, the Church of Nigeria, the Church of Uganda, the Anglican Church of Kenya, represented by Archbishop Benjamin Nzimbi, the Anglican Province of the Southern Cone, including Archbishop Gregory Venables, the Episcopal Church in Jerusalem and the Middle East, the Church of the Province of Myanmar, the Church of the Province of South East Asia and the Church of the Province of Rwanda.

Other ecumenical observers included Bishop Walter Grundorf of the Anglican Province of America, Samuel Nafzger of the Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod, and Bishop Kevin Vann of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Fort Worth.

Leaders from three Anglican provinces, John Chew of the Church of the Province of South East Asia, Archbishop Peter Jensen of the Anglican Diocese of Sydney and the Fellowship of Confessing Anglicans and Mouneer Anis, Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church in Jerusalem and the Middle East, formally announced support for the ACNA.{{Cite web |title=More Anglican Leaders Join Supporters of the Anglican Church in North America |url=http://www.acnaassembly.org/index2.php/acna/page/110 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090628081940/http://acnaassembly.org/index2.php/acna/page/110 |archive-date=June 28, 2009 |website=Anglican Church in North America}} From England, Bishop Wallace Benn and Archdeacon Michael Lawson sent greetings from the Church of England Evangelical Council.

The Anglican Mission in the Americas was a founding member of the Anglican Church in North America and, at the same time, maintained its status as a mission of the Church of the Province of Rwanda. This "dual citizenship" was defined by protocol among the Province of Rwanda, the Anglican Mission, and the ACNA.[http://www.theamia.org/am_cms_media/anglicanmissionprotocolforacnar1.pdf Protocol between Rwanda, the Anglican Mission, and the ACNA]. Accessed May 21, 2010. {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110726051106/http://www.theamia.org/am_cms_media/anglicanmissionprotocolforacnar1.pdf |date=July 26, 2011 }}

However, in a May 18, 2010, communiqué, the Anglican Mission announced its decision to transition from full ACNA membership to "ministry partner" status, a designation provided for in the governing structure of the ACNA, and remain a part of the Rwandan province. Reasons cited for the change were that the "dual citizenship" model had caused "significant confusion within the Anglican Mission and the ACNA regarding membership in two provinces, and more importantly, is inconsistent with the Constitution and Canons of the Province of the Anglican Church in Rwanda".[http://www.theamia.org/new/news/ The Anglican Mission's Relationship with the Anglican Church in North America], May 18, 2010. Accessed May 21, 2010. {{webarchive |url=https://archive.today/20130415220710/http://www.theamia.org/new/news/ |date=April 15, 2013 }}

On December 20, 2011, Archbishop Duncan announced that, due to the resignation of the majority of Anglican Mission bishops from the Province of Rwanda on December 5, the Anglican Mission had lost its "ministry partner" status with the ACNA and that most of AMiA's bishops had lost their status in the ACNA's College of Bishops.Archbishop Duncan, [http://www.anglicanchurch.net/?/main/page/342 "A Pastoral Letter"], December 20, 2011. Accessed December 21, 2011. Archbishop Onesphore Rwaje of the Anglican Church of Rwanda and Archbishop Duncan of the Anglican Church in North America issued a Joint Communiqué on April 28, 2012, to address the future of the AMiA. Meanwhile, the House of the Bishops of Rwanda decided to establish the Missionary District in North America (PEARUSA) to pursue the same work in the United States. The AMiA members were given three alternatives: join the PEARUSA, join another Anglican jurisdiction through letters dimissory, or remain in the AMiA. A deadline of August 31, 2012, was established for the clergy and the congregations of the AMiA to decide their future.{{cite web |url=http://www.anglicanink.com/article/joint-communiqu%C3%A9-archbishop-rwaje-pear-and-archbishop-duncan-anglican-church |title=Joint Communiqué from Archbishop Rwaje of P.E.A.R. and Archbishop Duncan of the Anglican Church, April 28, 2012, Anglican Ink |access-date=May 18, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120508175139/http://anglicanink.com/article/joint-communiqu%C3%A9-archbishop-rwaje-pear-and-archbishop-duncan-anglican-church |archive-date=May 8, 2012 |url-status=dead |df=mdy-all }} On April 29, 2012, Archbishop Henri Isingoma expressed his official approval for the temporary admission of the AMiA at the Anglican Church of Congo until its future was clarified.{{cite web|url=http://geoconger.wordpress.com/2012/05/04/congo-to-give-a-temporary-home-to-the-amia-the-church-of-england-newspaper-april-29-2012-p-7/|title=Congo to give a temporary home to the AMiA: The Church of England Newspaper, April 29, 2012 p 7|work=Conger|date=May 4, 2012|access-date=October 5, 2015}} Bishop Chuck Murphy, of the AMiA, expressed his will that the fracture between the AMiA and the ACNA could be solved in an answer letter to Archbishop Duncan, on September 8, 2012.

On August 14, 2014, it was announced the reopening of conversations between ACNA and AMiA "to discuss broken relationships, and to find ways that produce a faithful witness to Christ that has been undermined in the past". The meeting in which these conversations were started was attended by representatives of both ACNA and AMiA, including Archbishop Foley Beach and Bishop Philip Jones, who replaced Chuck Murphy in December 2013.{{cite web|url=http://www.anglicanchurch.net/?/main/page/1088|title=Anglican Church in North America|work=anglicanchurch.net|access-date=October 5, 2015}}

PEARUSA was a missionary district with equivalent status to a diocese. Upon the unanimous vote of ACNA's Provincial Council on June 21, 2016, PEARUSA was fully transferred to ACNA with two of the three former PEARUSA networks (Mid-Atlantic and Northeast, West) becoming full ACNA dioceses known respectively as the Anglican Diocese of Christ Our Hope and the Anglican Diocese of the Rocky Mountains.{{cite web|url=http://anglicanchurch.net/?/main/page/1254|title=Anglican Church in North America|website=anglicanchurch.net|access-date=June 22, 2016}}{{cite web|url=http://www.adhope.org/#!provincial-council-report/vatoi|title=Anglican Diocese of Christ Our Hope{{!}}HOME|website=Anglican Diocese of Christ Our Hope{{!}}HOME|access-date=July 25, 2016}} The former PEARUSA Southeast network did not become a full, separate ACNA diocese. According to a decision that had been reached at their clergy meeting and released on February 8, 2016,{{cite web |url=http://www.anglican.ink/article/pearusa-southeast-network-fold-congregations-acna-dioceses |title=PEARUSA Southeast Network to fold congregations into ACNA dioceses, Anglican Ink, 2 March 2016 |access-date= March 27, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160406232224/http://www.anglican.ink/article/pearusa-southeast-network-fold-congregations-acna-dioceses |archive-date=April 6, 2016 |url-status=dead }} the 20 parishes of PEARUSA Southeast were folded into the already existing ACNA dioceses.{{cite web|title = PEARUSA Moves Legally to ACNA, Remains Relationally Connected « PEAR USA|url = http://www.pearusa.org/pearusanews/featured/pearusa-moves-legally-to-acna-remains-relationally-connected|website = www.pearusa.org|access-date = 2015-09-27|archive-date = September 28, 2015|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20150928124234/http://www.pearusa.org/pearusanews/featured/pearusa-moves-legally-to-acna-remains-relationally-connected|url-status = dead}}

The Reformed Episcopal Diocese of the West became a convocation at the Missionary Diocese of All Saints, in April 2016, due to their small size. The Diocese of Western Canada and Alaska, who had two parishes in British Columbia, and also included the Missionary District of Cuba, was extinct and incorporated in the Diocese of Mid-America, for similar reasons.{{citation needed|date=September 2021}}

The ACNA and the Diocese of South Carolina, which had withdrawn from the Episcopal Church in October 2012 and was under the provisional primatial oversight of the Global South, held a two-day meeting on April 28–29, 2015, at St. Christopher Camp and Conference Center in South Carolina for conversations and examining the "possible compatibility of the ecclesiologies" of both churches.{{cite web|url=http://anglicanchurch.net/?/main/page/1020|title=Anglican Church in North America|work=anglicanchurch.net|access-date=October 5, 2015}} The Diocese of South Carolina Affiliation Task Force recommended the affiliation to the ACNA at their 225th Diocesan Convention, held in Bluffton, on March 12, 2016. The affiliation required approval by two future conventions of the diocese.{{Cite web|url=https://anglican.ink/2016/03/12/south-carolina-considers-acna-affiliation-during-225th-diocesan-convention/|title=South Carolina Considers ACNA Affiliation during 225th Diocesan Convention | Anglican Ink © 2023|website=anglican.ink}} The Diocese of South Carolina voted unanimously to affiliate with ACNA at their 226th Convention, held in Summerville, on March 11, 2017. ACNA's Provincial Council voted also unanimously to formally receive the Diocese of South Carolina at ACNA's Third Provincial Assembly, meeting in Wheaton, Illinois, on June 27, 2017.{{cite web |last1=Ailes |first1=Mary |title=The Diocese of South Carolina votes to affiliate with the Anglican Church in North America |url=http://anglicanchurch.net/?/main/page/1410 |website=Anglican Church in North America |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170312005736/http://anglicanchurch.net/?/main/page/1410 |archive-date=March 12, 2017 |date=March 11, 2017 |url-status=dead}}{{cite web|url=http://anglicanchurch.net/?/main/page/1474|title=Anglican Church in North America|website=anglicanchurch.net|language=en|access-date=June 27, 2017}}{{cite web|url=http://www.diosc.com/sys/173-news/798-diocese-of-south-carolina-received-by-the-anglican-church-in-north-america|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170628142407/http://www.diosc.com/sys/173-news/798-diocese-of-south-carolina-received-by-the-anglican-church-in-north-america|url-status=usurped|archive-date=June 28, 2017|title=Diocese of South Carolina - Diocese of South Carolina Received by the Anglican Church in North America|last=Hunter|first=Joy|website=Diocese of South Carolina|language=en-gb|access-date=June 27, 2017}}

After the formation of the ACNA, the Church of Nigeria (Anglican Communion) entered into letters of agreement to formalize relationship between the two provinces. The most recent agreement signed by the ACNA and the Church of Nigeria related to three of the four dioceses that resulted from the Convocation of Anglicans in North America activity in the United States. The agreement signed on March 12, 2019, allowed for the Missionary Diocese of the Trinity, the Missionary Diocese of CANA East, and the Missionary Diocese of CANA West to decide their own provincial affiliation. This agreement became necessary as the result of a dispute generated by the election by the Church of Nigeria of four suffragan bishops for the Missionary Diocese of the Trinity, composed mostly of Nigerian expatriates in the United States, without consultation with the ACNA College of Bishops. Until this time, the Church of Nigeria had allowed all four CANA dioceses to be full participating members of the ACNA.{{cite web |title=Church of Nigeria, Anglican Church in North America Reach Agreement on CANA Dioceses ? |url=http://anglicanchurch.net/?/main/page/1840 |website=Anglican Church in North America |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191001035923/http://anglicanchurch.net/?/main/page/1840 |archive-date=October 1, 2019 |url-status=dead}} On May 21, 2019, the Missionary Diocese of CANA East announced its decision to withdraw from the Church of Nigeria to become solely a diocese of the Anglican Church in North America, with the new name of the Anglican Diocese of the Living Word.{{Cite web|url=https://anglican.ink/2019/05/21/cana-east-withdraws-from-the-church-of-nigeria/|title=CANA East withdraws from the Church of Nigeria | Anglican Ink © 2023|website=anglican.ink}} The Diocese of CANA West announced their decision to remain a diocese of the Church of Nigeria on May 23, 2019, followed by the Missionary Diocese of the Trinity on the same day. The dioceses remaining with the Church of Nigeria are, by the agreement, considered ministry partners (a formal canonical status) of the ACNA.{{Cite web|url=https://anglican.ink/2019/05/23/cana-west-leaves-acna/|title=CANA West leaves ACNA | Anglican Ink © 2023|website=anglican.ink}}{{Cite web|url=https://anglican.ink/2019/05/24/cana-diocese-of-the-trinity-withdraws-from-acna/|title=CANA Diocese of the Trinity withdraws from ACNA | Anglican Ink © 2023|website=anglican.ink}} The fourth diocese, the Diocese of the Armed Forces and Chaplaincy (CANA), which had become the Jurisdiction of the Armed Forces and Chaplaincy (ACNA) in 2014 by a previous letter of agreement between the Church of Nigeria and the ACNA, was unaffected by this latter agreement since the previous agreement regarding Anglican Chaplains had been solidified through changes in the Canons of the ACNA. The Jurisdiction of the Armed Forces and Chaplaincy continues to function as a full diocesan entity of the ACNA, and in concordat with the Church of Nigeria (CANA).{{citation needed|date=June 2020}}

Bishop Jack Iker of Fort Worth—one of the founding members of ACNA—announced on 4 November 2017 that his diocese was in impaired communion with the ACNA dioceses that ordained women.{{cite web|url=http://fwepiscopal.org/bishop/bishop.html|title=The Bishop's Annual Address to the 35th Convention of the Diocese of Fort Worth Saturday, Nov. 4, 2017|last1=Iker|first1=Jack|publisher=The Episcopal Diocese of Fort Worth|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171121201940/http://fwepiscopal.org/bishop/bishop.html|archive-date=November 21, 2017|url-status=dead|access-date=November 21, 2017}}{{Cite web |last=Petersen |first=Kirk |date=2020-01-02 |title=Jack Iker, a Founding Bishop of ACNA, Retires in Fort Worth |url=https://livingchurch.org/news/jack-iker-a-founding-bishop-of-acna-retires-in-fort-worth/ |access-date=2024-10-08 |website=The Living Church |language=en-US}} He said: "Most ACNA bishops and dioceses are opposed to women priests, but as it presently stands, the ACNA Constitution says each diocese can decide if it will ordain women priests or not. We now need to work with other dioceses to amend the Constitution to remove this provision". He continued:{{Cite web |last=Conger |first=George |date=2017-11-17 |title=Fort Worth in impaired communion with some ACNA dioceses |url=https://anglican.ink/2017/11/17/fort-worth-in-impaired-communion-with-some-acna-dioceses/ |access-date=2024-10-08 |website=Anglican Ink © 2024 |language=en-US}} {{blockquote|We are in a state of impaired communion because of this issue. The Task Force concluded that "both sides cannot be right." At the conclave, I informed the College of Bishops that I will no longer give consent to the election of any bishop who intends to ordain female priests, nor will I attend the consecration of any such bishop-elect in the future. I have notified the Archbishop of my resignation from all the committees to which I had been assigned to signify that it is no longer possible to have "business as usual" in the College of Bishops due to the refusal of those who are in favor of women priests to at least adopt a moratorium on this divisive practice, for the sake of unity. Bishops who continue to ordain women priests in spite of the received tradition are signs of disunity and division.}}In June 2024, Ryan Reed, the current Bishop of Fort Worth, reiterated that the diocese is in a state of impaired communion with those dioceses that ordain women to the priesthood, calling on the ACNA "to agree to a moratorium on the practice of the ordination of women in order to facilitate full communion."{{Cite web |last=Kallsen |first=Kevin |date=2024-06-06 |title=Diocese of FT Worth calls for Full Communion in ACNA |url=https://anglican.ink/2024/06/06/diocese-of-ft-worth-call-for-full-communion-in-acna/ |access-date=2024-10-08 |website=Anglican Ink © 2024 |language=en-US}}

{{See also|Anglican doctrine}}

In its Fundamental Declarations, the Anglican Church in North America declares itself part of the One, Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic Church, confessing Jesus Christ to be the only way to God the Father.{{sfn|Anglican Church in North America|2014|p=1}} Consistent with this, it identifies the following seven elements as characteristic of the "Anglican Way" and essential for membership:

• The Bible is the inspired word of God, containing all things necessary for salvation, and is the final authority and unchangeable standard for Christian faith and life.
• Baptism and the Lord's Supper are sacraments ordained by Christ and are to be ministered with unfailing use of his words of institution and the elements ordained by him.
• The historic episcopate is an inherent part of the apostolic faith and practice, and therefore integral to the fullness and unity of the Body of Christ.
• The church affirms the historic faith of the undivided church as declared in the three ecumenical (catholic) creeds: the Apostles', the Nicene, and the Athanasian.
• Concerning the seven Councils of the undivided church, it affirms the teaching of the first four Ecumenical Councils and the Christological clarifications of the fifth, sixth and seventh councils, in so far as they are agreeable to the Bible.
• The 1662 Book of Common Prayer and its ordinal is a standard for Anglican doctrine and discipline and, with the editions before it, the standard for the Anglican tradition of worship.
• "[T]he Thirty-Nine Articles of Religion of 1571, taken in their literal and grammatical sense, [express] the Anglican response to certain doctrinal issues controverted at that time, and [express] fundamental principles of authentic Anglican belief."{{sfn|Anglican Church in North America|2014|pp=1–2}}

In addition to the 1662 edition of the Book of Common Prayer, the ACNA has authorized the use of later versions, including the 1928 and 1979 versions produced by the Episcopal Church and the 1962 version produced by the Anglican Church of Canada.[http://anglicanchurch.net/?/main/faq Frequently Asked Questions]. Anglican Church in North America. Accessed June 3, 2014. In 2013, the College of Bishops approved on a trial basis Texts for Common Prayer, a collection of liturgies made specifically for the Anglican Church in North America. Texts for Common Prayer includes morning prayer, evening prayer, the Eucharist or Lord's Supper, and an ordinal.[http://anglicanchurch.net/?/main/texts_for_common_prayer Texts for Common Prayer]. Anglican Church in North America. Accessed June 3, 2014. In 2014, the ACNA also released a catechism for trial use, To Be a Christian: An Anglican Catechism, the Approved Edition of which was published in 2020.{{cite web|url=http://anglicanchurch.net/?/main/catechism|title=Anglican Church in North America|work=anglicanchurch.net|access-date=October 5, 2015}}{{cite book|url=https://www.crossway.org/books/to-be-a-christian-hconly/|title=To Be a Christian: An Anglican Catechism|date=January 28, 2020 |isbn=9781433566776 |last1=Packer |first1=J. I. |last2=Scandrett |first2=Joel |publisher=Crossway }} The new Book of Common Prayer of ACNA was released in 2019.{{Cite web|url=https://anglican.ink/2017/02/20/acna-releases-new-liturgical-resources/|title=ACNA releases new liturgical resources | Anglican Ink © 2023|website=anglican.ink}}{{cite web |title=The Book of Common Prayer 2019 Final Texts Released |url=http://anglicanchurch.net/?/main/page/1823 |website=Anglican Church in North America |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200604190743/http://anglicanchurch.net/?/main/page/1823 |archive-date=June 4, 2020 |url-status=dead}} The Calendar of Saints of ACNA was issued in 2017.{{Cite web|url=https://s3.amazonaws.com/acna/Holy%20Days%20and%20Optional%20Commemorations.pdf|title=Anglican Church in North America Calendar of Saints}}

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The ACNA has Anglo-Catholic, evangelical, and charismatic members and is more theologically conservative than the Episcopal Church and the Anglican Church of Canada.[http://acnaassembly.org/index2.php/acna/page/40 An Introduction to the Constitution and Canons - By Bishop Robert Duncan] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090623070241/http://acnaassembly.org/index2.php/acna/page/40 |date=June 23, 2009 }} 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. The College of Bishops released a statement on ordination, sharing that the teaching of the ACNA is that the ordination of women to the priesthood "is a recent innovation to Apostolic Tradition and Catholic Order. We agree that there is insufficient scriptural warrant to accept women’s ordination to the priesthood as standard practice throughout the Province...[but] that individual dioceses have constitutional authority to ordain women to the priesthood."{{Cite web |last=Andrew |date=2017-09-08 |title=College of Bishops Statement on the Ordination of Women |url=https://anglicanchurch.net/college-of-bishops-statement-on-the-ordination-of-women/ |access-date=2024-06-06 |website=The Anglican Church in North America |language=en-US}}

Concerning marriage, it holds that it is between one man and one woman; therefore, it opposes same sex unions. The ACNA opposes abortion and euthanasia, proclaiming "all members and clergy are called to promote and respect the sanctity of every human life from conception to natural death".{{sfn|Anglican Church in North America|2014|loc=title II, canon 8}} The ACNA is associated with Anglicans for Life for promotion of the pro-life ministry.{{cite web|url=http://anglicansforlife.org/|title=Anglicans For Life|work=anglicansforlife.org|access-date=October 5, 2015}} In 2018, ACNA Archbishop Foley Beach signed a letter with several other church leaders stating gender cannot be separated from one's sex as male or female.{{Cite web|url=http://www.anglicanchurch.net/?/main/page/1577|title = The Anglican Church in North America}}

The Canons and Constitution of the ACNA lay out the Church's beliefs regarding the duties of the laity, or non-clergy members of the church. Included among these duties are an obligation for the laity to "worship God...every Lord's Day in a church unless reasonably prevented,"{{Cite web |title=THE ANGLICAN CHURCH IN NORTH AMERICA CONSTITUTION AND CANONS |url=https://anglicanchurch.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/CURRENT-C-and-C-2019.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230310042311/https://anglicanchurch.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/CURRENT-C-and-C-2019.pdf |archive-date=2023-03-10 |website=anglicanchurch.net}} a duty similar to the Roman Catholic Holy Day of Obligation, as well as duties to "receive worthily the Sacrament of Holy Communion as often as reasonable" and to "observe the feasts and fasts of the Church set forth in the Anglican formularies."

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The Anglican Church in North America is structured as a self-governing, multinational ecclesiastical province. The province's polity is described in its constitution and canon law. The basic level of organization is the local congregation. Each congregation is part of a diocese led by a bishop. Dioceses are self-governing bodies that operate according to their own diocesan canon law (as long as this is consistent with the provincial constitution), and they are able to leave the province at any time if they so choose.{{sfn|Anglican Church in North America|2014|pp=2, 4}}

The ACNA is a conciliar church in which both clergy and laity participate in church governance. Every five years, between 250 and 300 diocesan delegates meet as a representative body called the Provincial Assembly.{{cite web | url = http://www.anglicanchurch.net/index.php/main/Governance/ | title = Governance | website = www.anglicanchurch.net | publisher = Anglican Church in North America | access-date = October 17, 2016 }} Each diocese is represented by its bishop, two clergy delegates, and two lay delegates. In addition, a diocese receives one additional clergy delegate and one additional lay delegate for every 1,000 constituents, calculated by average attendance at Sunday church services. Dioceses also send youth representatives between the ages of 16 and 26, and these representatives have full voting rights. The Provincial Assembly must approve all constitutional amendments and new canons before they go into effect. Other duties of the assembly include deliberating on church affairs and making recommendations to the provincial governing bodies on such matters.{{sfn|Anglican Church in North America|2014|p=17}}

The ACNA's governing body is the Provincial Council. The council meets every June and is responsible for enacting policy, approving a budget, and recommending changes to the constitution and canons. Each diocese selects a bishop, a clergy member, and two lay persons to represent it on the council. The council itself may also appoint up to six other persons as members, bringing the total number to around 140 members. Council members serve five-year terms. The Provincial Council is led by an executive committee, which sets the council's agenda and serves as the church's board of directors. The executive committee's 12 members are divided equally between clergy and laity. In addition to meeting three times a year in person, they communicate regularly by conference call.{{sfn|Anglican Church in North America|2014|pp=15–16}}

All bishops in active ministry are members of the College of Bishops. The college elects the archbishop, the presiding officer and primate of the church, who convenes the Provincial Assembly, the Provincial Council, and the College of Bishops. The college also has authority to approve diocesan elections of bishops, or in some cases actually elect bishops. There are 50 active bishops sitting in the college. The archbishop has a cabinet composed of leading bishops within the church which functions as a council of advice.Anglican Church in North America (August 10, 2010), [http://www.anglicanchurch.net/?/main/page/145 "Elected Executive Committee Begins Work"]. Accessed February 21, 2011. The Provincial Tribunal is an ecclesiastical court empowered to rule on constitutional and canonical disputes.

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Local congregations hold their own property and the province disavows any claim on the property of local congregations. Existing property-holding arrangements within the founding member entities are not affected by their relation to the province. The province also disavows any authority to control the member entities' policies regarding the question of the ordination of women as deacons or priests.{{citation needed|date=August 2021}}

The constitution and canons specify that other non-member groups (such as a seminary, monastic order or ministry organization, or a diocese, congregation or other entity) may be considered for association as ministry partners or affiliated ministries. These affiliated groups may have representation in church gatherings as determined by the archbishop and may withdraw from affiliation or have their affiliation ended with or without cause.{{sfn|Anglican Church in North America|2014|loc=Title I, canon 7}} ACNA affiliated ministries include Anglican Global Mission Partners (a missionary organization), Anglican Relief and Development Fund, and Anglican 1000 (a church planting initiative).{{citation needed|date=September 2021}}

In 2021, Foley Beach designated Christ Church Plano, one of the largest churches in the ACNA to serve as pro-cathedral for the province under Beach's personal oversight as archbishop. Christ Church hosted the investiture of Robert Duncan as the first archbishop and the ACNA province-wide assembly in 2019.{{cite news |last1=Walton |first1=Jeff |title=Christ Church Plano's Paul Donison on new Anglican Provincial Cathedral |url=https://www.christianitynews.net/2021/11/19/christ-church-planos-paul-donison-on-new-anglican-provincial-cathedral/ |access-date=13 July 2022 |work=Christianity News |date=19 November 2021 }}{{Dead link|date=May 2024 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}

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In 2019, the Anglican Church in North America reported 972 congregations with a membership of 127,624 and an average Sunday attendance of 84,310 people.{{Cite web|last=Walton|first=Jeff|date=2020-06-27|title=Anglican Decline, Pandemic and Pandemonium in "Challenging Times"|url=http://anglican.ink/2020/06/26/anglican-decline-pandemic-and-pandemonium-in-challenging-times/|access-date=2020-06-29|website=Anglican Ink © 2020|language=en-US}}{{Cite web|date=June 26, 2020|title=ACNA Stats|url=https://2b2gdzjtaey3o01p41qinbri-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com/wp-content/uploads/ACNA-Stats.jpg|access-date=June 28, 2020|website=juicyecumenism.com}} The primate of the ACNA, Archbishop Foley Beach, and church staff identified the departure of two dioceses from the Convocation of Anglicans in North America as the primary cause of the decline in membership and attendance. In 2020, the denominational statistics reported 972 congregations, no change from 2019, 126,760 members, and an average Sunday attendance of 83,119 people.{{Cite web|last=Walton|first=Jeff|date=2021-06-25|title=Contra expectations, Anglican numbers largely hold steady in 2020|url=https://anglican.ink/2021/06/24/contra-expectations-anglican-numbers-largely-hold-steady-in-2020/|access-date=2021-06-26|website=Anglican Ink © 2021|language=en-US}} In 2022, using statistics from 2021, the ACNA reported 974 congregations, a slight increase, 122,450 members, and an average Sunday attendance of 73,832 from its highest two months; average Sunday attendance overall was 58, 255.{{Cite web |last=Ernie |date=2022-06-29 |title=A Summary of Provincial Council 2022 |url=https://anglicanchurch.net/a-summary-of-provincial-council-2022/ |access-date=2022-09-25 |website=The Anglican Church in North America |language=en-US}} The ACNA saw a slight increase from 2022 in membership to 124,999 members and saw an increase in average Sunday attendance to 75,583.{{Cite web |last=Walton |first=Jeff |date=2023-06-24 |title=ACNA Attendance Strongly Rebounds |url=https://anglican.ink/2023/06/24/acna-attendance-strongly-rebounds/ |access-date=2023-06-25 |website=Anglican Ink © 2023 |language=en-US}} In 2023, the province recovered to pre-COVID levels of membership (128,114) and average Sunday attendance (84,794).{{Cite web |last=Walton |first=Jeff |date=2024-06-25 |title=ACNA’s Attendance & Membership Rebound |url=https://livingchurch.org/news/acnas-attendance-membership-rebound/ |access-date=2024-06-26 |website=The Living Church |language=en-US}}

In 2017, the ACNA reported 1,037 congregations with a membership of 134,593 and an average Sunday attendance of 93,489.{{Cite web |title=Provincial Council 2018 Documents |url=https://www.dropbox.com/sh/7stcpg36y20u1jd/AABGo2vxyvhqUkJistzf4KNea?dl=0&preview=Congregational+Report+to+Provincial+Council+2017.pdf |access-date=2022-08-17 |website=Dropbox |language=en}} 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.[http://anglicanchurch.net/index.php/main/page/95/ "One Hundred and Six New Anglican Congregations in Nine Months"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110725201656/http://anglicanchurch.net/index.php/main/page/95/ |date=July 25, 2011 }}. Anglican Church in North America. April 13, 2010. Accessed April 15, 2010.[https://web.archive.org/web/20090704012202/http://acnaassembly.org/media/ACNA_-_Dioceses_and_delegates_-_June_2009_-_fact_sheet.pdf ACNA Dioceses and Delegates Fact Sheet]. June 2009. Accessed April 15, 2010. However, in 2018, the average Sunday attendance was 88,048.{{Cite web|url=http://www.anglicanchurch.net/index.php/main/About/|title=Anglican Church in North America|website=www.anglicanchurch.net|language=en|access-date=2020-01-07}} ACNA had a maximum of 30 dioceses, that was reduced to 28, with the withdrawal of the Missionary Diocese of CANA West and the Anglican Diocese of the Trinity to remain solely as Church of Nigeria and Convocation of Anglicans in North America dioceses, on May 23, 2019. The Missionary Diocese of CANA West rejoined ACNA with the name of Anglican Diocese of All Nations, in 2023. ACNA congregations are now organized into the following 28 dioceses and jurisdictions:{{cite web|title=Dioceses and Congregations|url=http://www.acna.org/admin_units?qkind_eq=Diocese|website=Anglican Church in North America|access-date=November 7, 2023}}

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1. Anglican Diocese of All Nations
2. Missionary Diocese of All Saints
3. Special Jurisdiction of the Armed Forces and Chaplaincy
4. Anglican Diocese of Canada
5. Diocese of the Carolinas
6. Diocese of Cascadia
7. REC Diocese of the Central States
8. Anglican Diocese of Christ Our Hope
9. Episcopal Diocese of Fort Worth
10. Anglican Diocese of the Great Lakes (Not to be confused with the older Diocese of the Great Lakes, an autonomous Continuing Anglican jurisdiction.)
11. Gulf Atlantic Diocese
12. Anglican Diocese of the Living Word
13. REC Diocese of Mid-America, with the Convocation of the West and Western Canada
14. Diocese of the Mid-Atlantic
15. Anglican Diocese in New England
16. REC Diocese of the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic, with the Convocation of Eastern Canada
17. Anglican Diocese of Pittsburgh
18. Anglican Diocese of the Rocky Mountains
19. Diocese of Quincy
20. Diocese of Churches for the Sake of Others
21. Diocese of San Joaquin
22. Anglican Diocese of the South
23. Anglican Diocese of South Carolina
24. REC Diocese of the Southeast
25. Anglican Diocese of the Southwest
26. Anglican Diocese of the Upper Midwest
27. Diocese of Western Anglicans
28. Anglican Diocese of the Western Gulf Coast

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The ACNA's constitution expresses the goal to seek recognition as a province of the Anglican Communion.{{sfn|Anglican Church in North America|2014|p=3}} A total of nine Anglican provinces sent formal delegations to the inaugural assembly. The Anglican Church in North America has not yet requested formal recognition by the Anglican Communion office as a province recognized by the Anglican instruments of communion.{{citation needed|date=August 2018}}{{contradict-inline|date=August 2018}} The office of the Archbishop of Canterbury has said it would possibly take years for the ACNA to gain official recognition from the rest of the Anglican Communion.

In several cases ACNA has become entangled in protracted legal disputes over church property (for example, when the ACNA's Diocese of Fort Worth split from the Episcopal Church), with some of these lawsuits continuing for years.

The Fellowship of Confessing Anglicans primates' council has said that the new church is "fully Anglican" and called for its recognition by existing provinces of the Anglican Communion.{{cite web | url = http://www.gafcon.org/news/gafcon_communique_issued_-_ACNA_recognized/ | title = GAFCON Communiqué issued — ACNA recognized | publisher = GAFCON / Fellowship of Confessing Anglicans}} Archbishop Robert Duncan was present at the Global South Fourth Encounter that took place in Singapore, in April 2010, where he presided at the Eucharist and met primates and representatives from 20 Anglican provinces. The Global South Encounter final statement declared: "We are grateful that the recently formed Anglican Church in North America (ACNA) is a faithful expression of Anglicanism. We welcomed them as partners in the Gospel and our hope is that all provinces will be in full communion with the clergy and people of the ACNA and the Communion Partners."{{cite web | url = http://www.globalsouthanglican.org/index.php/blog/comments/fourth_trumpet_from_the_fourth_anglican_global_south_to_south_encounter | title = Global South Encounter — Fourth Trumpet | publisher = Global South Encounter | access-date = June 30, 2010 | archive-date = May 29, 2017 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20170529203556/http://www.globalsouthanglican.org/index.php/blog/comments/fourth_trumpet_from_the_fourth_anglican_global_south_to_south_encounter | url-status = dead }}

In March 2009, the Anglican Church of Nigeria declared itself to be in full communion with the Anglican Church in North America,{{cite web|url = http://religionblog.dallasnews.com/archives/2009/03/church-of-nigeria-in-full-comm.html|title = Church of Nigeria in full communion with Anglican Church of North America|publisher = Dallas Morning News|access-date = March 21, 2009|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20090625082835/http://religionblog.dallasnews.com/archives/2009/03/church-of-nigeria-in-full-comm.html|archive-date = June 25, 2009|url-status = dead}} followed by the House of Bishops of the Anglican Church of Uganda in June 2009 and the Episcopal Church of Sudan in December 2011.{{cite web|url=http://www.acnaassembly.org/index2.php/acna/page/109 |title=Church of Uganda Declares itself in Full Communion with Anglican Church in North America |author=Church of Uganda |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090628104434/http://www.acnaassembly.org/index2.php/acna/page/109 |archive-date=June 28, 2009 }}{{cite web|url=http://www.anglicanchurch.net/?/main/page/339|title=Advent Letter from Archbishop Duncan|access-date=December 16, 2011}} Inasmuch as these churches report approximately 30,500,000 members,[http://www.anglican-nig.org/enuguconsecration.htm "ENUGU CONSECRATION: 'Serve and Suffer for Christ'"]. Church of Nigeria (estimate) {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070927065421/http://www.anglican-nig.org/enuguconsecration.htm |date=September 27, 2007 }}[http://www.ubos.org/2002%20Census%20Final%20Reportdoc.pdf 2002 Uganda Population and Housing Census, Bureau of Statistics (PDF)] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071124144651/http://www.ubos.org/2002%20Census%20Final%20Reportdoc.pdf |date=November 24, 2007 }} and the Anglican Communion reports over 80,000,000 members,{{cite web |author=Anglican Communion Office |title=Welcome |url=http://www.aco.org/index.cfm |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100126182506/http://www.aco.org/index.cfm |archive-date=January 26, 2010 |access-date=October 5, 2015 |work=The Anglican Communion}} the ACNA is in communion with churches comprising somewhat over one-third of the membership of the Anglican Communion.{{dubious|date=August 2018}}{{original research inline|date=August 2018}}

On the final day of its 2009 synod, the Anglican Diocese of Sydney passed a resolution welcoming the creation of the ACNA and expressing a desire to be in full communion.Russel Powell. [http://www.sydneyanglicans.net/news/stories/we_see_them_and_embrace_them "We See Them and Embrace Them"]. Sydneyanglicans.net, October 28, 2009. The resolution also called for the diocese's standing committee to seek a general synod motion affirming the Anglican Church of Australia to be in full communion with the ACNA. The Anglican Diocese of Sydney declared itself to be in "full communion" with ACNA during its synod on October 13, 2015.{{cite web |last1=Ould |first1=David |title=Sydney Synod Declares 'Communion with ACNA' |url=http://www.standfirminfaith.com/?/sf/page/32022 |website=Stand Firm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151016032529/http://www.standfirminfaith.com/?/sf/page/32022 |archive-date=October 16, 2015 |date=October 14, 2015 |url-status=dead}}

In 2010, the General Synod of the Church of England affirmed "the desire of those who have formed the Anglican Church in North America to remain within the Anglican family" and called upon the archbishops of Canterbury and York to report back to the synod after further study in 2011.[http://www.churchofengland.org/media-centre/news/2010/02/gsfeb100210pm.aspx General Synod - Summary of Business Conducted on Wednesday 10th February 2010], accessed 21 January 2012.{{Citation| last =Mackay | first =Maria | title =Church of England Recognises Breakaway US Anglicans | newspaper =Christian Today | date =February 10, 2010 | url =http://www.christiantoday.com/article/church.of.england.recognises.breakaway.us.anglicans/25275.htm | access-date =2010-02-10| archive-url= https://archive.today/20100213043325/http://www.christiantoday.com/article/church.of.england.recognises.breakaway.us.anglicans/25275.htm| archive-date= February 13, 2010 | url-status= live}} Published in December 2011, the archbishops' follow up report recommended "an open-ended engagement with ACNA on the part of the Church of England and the Communion" but also stated that a definitive outcome would be unclear for sometime.[http://churchofengland.org/media/1389262/gs%20misc%201011%20-%20acna.pdf The Church of England and the Anglican Church in North America] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130619114724/http://churchofengland.org/media/1389262/gs%20misc%201011%20-%20acna.pdf |date=June 19, 2013 }}, report of the Archbishops of Canterbury and York to the General Synod of the Church of England, December 2011, accessed 21 January 2012.{{cite web|url=http://www.anglicanplanet.net/international-news/2012/2/24/cofe-report-generally-open-to-new-anglican-church.html|title=The Anglican Planet - International News - CofE report generally open to new Anglican Church|work=anglicanplanet.net|access-date=October 5, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303234408/http://anglicanplanet.net/international-news/2012/2/24/cofe-report-generally-open-to-new-anglican-church.html|archive-date=March 3, 2016|url-status=dead|df=dmy-all}}

Archbishop Robert Duncan met following his invitation the Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, in May 2013, to discuss the recognition of the ACNA ordinations in the near future.{{cite web|url=http://www.anglicanchurch.net/?/main/page/623|title=Anglican Church in North America|work=anglicanchurch.net|access-date=October 5, 2015}} Welby announced on January 16, 2014, that Tory Baucum, Rector of Truro Church in Fairfax, Virginia, a parish of the ACNA, had been elected unanimously to serve as one of the Six Preachers of Canterbury Cathedral.{{cite web|url=http://www.archbishopofcanterbury.org/articles.php/5228/archbishop-appoints-us-priest-as-canterbury-preacher|title=Archbishop appoints US priest as Canterbury preacher|work=archbishopofcanterbury.org|access-date=October 5, 2015}} Baucum was installed on March 14, 2014, attended by both Justin Welby and Robert Duncan.{{cite web|url=http://www.archbishopofcanterbury.org/diary.php/5066/six-preacher-installation|title=Six Preacher Installation · Events|work=archbishopofcanterbury.org|access-date=October 5, 2015}} In October 2014, Welby stated that Tory Baucum had been ordained before ACNA's inception and because of that his Anglican orders were valid, so he was eligible to be elected to that office. He further stated that ACNA was a separate church and not part of the Anglican Communion.{{cite web|url=http://anglicanink.com/article/canterbury-buries-instruments-unity |title=Canterbury buries the instruments of unity |work=anglicanink.com |access-date=October 5, 2015 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151017234616/http://anglicanink.com/article/canterbury-buries-instruments-unity |archive-date=October 17, 2015 }}

In October 2014, the Diocese of North West Australia passed a motion recognizing the ACNA as a "member church of the Anglican Communion".{{cite web|url=http://acl.asn.au/diocese-of-nw-australia-recognises-acna-as-a-member-church-of-the-anglican-communion/|title=Diocese of NW Australia recognises ACNA as "a member church of the Anglican Communion"|work=Anglican Church League, Sydney, Australia|date=October 5, 2014|access-date=October 5, 2015}} On October 9, 2014, following the ceremony of investiture of Foley Beach as archbishop and primate of ACNA, an official statement, which recognized Beach as "a fellow Primate of the Anglican Communion", was signed by the seven Anglican archbishops present: Mouneer Anis of Jerusalem and the Middle East, Eliud Wabukala of Kenya, Nicholas Okoh of Nigeria, Stanley Ntagali of Uganda, Onesphore Rwaje of Rwanda, Stephen Than Myint Oo of Myanmar, and Héctor "Tito" Zavala of the Southern Cone of America.{{cite web|url=http://www.anglicanchurch.net/?/main/page/890|title=Anglican Church in North America|work=anglicanchurch.net|access-date=October 5, 2015}}{{cite web|url=http://www.globalsouthanglican.org/index.php/blog/comments/a_statement_from_the_primates_of_the_global_south_and_the_global_fellowship|title=Global South Anglican|work=globalsouthanglican.org|access-date=October 5, 2015|archive-date=July 30, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190730213653/http://www.globalsouthanglican.org/index.php/blog/comments/a_statement_from_the_primates_of_the_global_south_and_the_global_fellowship|url-status=dead}} However, the authority to decide whether ACNA should be admitted to the worldwide Anglican Communion lies with the Anglican Consultative Council, and not with individual member churches or provinces. Member churches and provinces are, however, able to develop bilateral relations, which do not bind the rest of the Anglican Communion.

At a meeting of the Anglican Primates of the Global South (a coalition representing the majority of the world's Anglicans) on October 14–16, 2015, in Cairo, Egypt, ACNA was declared to be an official partner province of the Global South by representatives of twelve churches, with Archbishop Beach being seated as a member of the Global South Primates Council with voice and vote.{{cite web|url = http://anglicanchurch.net/?/main/page/1113|title = Anglican Church in North America Declared Partner Province by the Global South|access-date = 16 October 2015|website = Anglican Church in North America}}

Despite the ACNA not being recognized as a province of the Anglican Communion, Welby invited Beach to attend a gathering of primates in the communion as an observer in January 2016.{{cite news |date=January 15, 2016 |title=Communiqué from the Primates' Meeting 2016 |url=http://www.anglicannews.org/features/2016/01/communique-from-the-primates-meeting-2016.aspx |newspaper=Anglican Communion News Service |location=London |publisher=Anglican Communion Office |access-date=January 21, 2016}}{{Cite web |title=‘Grown-up’ Primates’ Meeting affirms Anglican links with Canterbury |url=https://www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2020/17-january/news/world/grown-up-primates-meeting-affirms-anglican-links-with-canterbury |access-date=2024-06-11 |website=www.churchtimes.co.uk}} While not permitted to vote, Beach was allowed to attend the first four days of the five-day session.{{cite web|url = http://www.primates2016.org/articles/2016/01/17/statement-votes-given-primates-meeting-canterbury/|title = Statement on votes given to Primates at the meeting in Canterbury|date = January 17, 2016|access-date = January 20, 2016|website = Primates 2016|publisher = Anglican Communion Office|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20160119235907/http://www.primates2016.org/articles/2016/01/17/statement-votes-given-primates-meeting-canterbury/|archive-date = 2016-01-19|url-status = usurped}} The prospect of the ACNA joining the communion was discussed and it was recognized that if the ACNA were to apply for admission to membership in the communion, the consideration of their application would be within the purview of the Anglican Consultative Council.

The Archbishops of Canterbury and York, Justin Welby and John Sentamu, recognized ACNA's religious orders under the Overseas and Other Clergy (Ministry and Ordination) Measure 1967 (No. 3), as it was announced on 10 February 2017.{{cite web |url=http://www.anglican.ink/article/acna-orders-valid-state-archbishops-canterbury-and-york |title=ACNA orders valid state Archbishops of Canterbury and York, Anglican Ink, 10 February 2017 |access-date=February 10, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170211155754/http://www.anglican.ink/article/acna-orders-valid-state-archbishops-canterbury-and-york |archive-date=February 11, 2017 |url-status=dead }}{{cite web|url=https://www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2017/13-april/news/uk/anca-s-orders-recognised|title=ANCA's Orders recognised|work=Church Times|date=13 April 2017|last=Davies|first=Madeleine|access-date=18 March 2024}}

After a meeting between Archbishop Foley Beach of ACNA and the Moderator/Primate of the Church of Bangladesh, Paul Sarker, on May 13–15, 2017, at Holy Cross Anglican Cathedral in Loganville, Georgia, they signed a statement affirming and celebrating the communion between both provinces thereby causing ACNA to enter into full communion with the Church of Bangladesh.{{cite web|url=http://www.anglicanchurch.net/?/main/page/1453|title=Anglican Church in North America|website=www.anglicanchurch.net|language=en|access-date=May 19, 2017}}{{cite news|url=http://www.anglican.ink/article/concordat-communion-between-acna-and-church-bangladesh|title=Concordat of communion between the ACNA and Church of Bangladesh|date=May 18, 2017|work=Anglican Ink 2017 |access-date=May 20, 2017|language=en|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170912055646/http://www.anglican.ink/article/concordat-communion-between-acna-and-church-bangladesh|archive-date=September 12, 2017|url-status=dead}}{{cite magazine |author= |title=Moderator in USA with PCUSA |url=https://churchofbangladesh.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/CoBNewsletterJan-May17.pdf |edition=Special Issue January-May 2017 |page=7 |magazine=Church of Bangladesh Newsletter |location= |publisher=Church of Bangladesh |date= June 2017 |access-date=18 March 2024}}

In February 2016, Archbishop Foley Beach signed an instrument declaring ACNA to be in full communion with the Free Church of England, a reformed and Protestant Anglican church. Archbishop Beach's declaration was ratified by the Provincial Council of the ACNA in June 2016. The Reformed Episcopal Church, a founding member of the denomination, was already in that status with the FCE since 1927. Foley Beach and Ray Sutton, Presiding Bishop of REC, participated at the celebrations of the 90th anniversary of the communion between FCE and REC, which took place at Wallasey, England, on June 10, 2017.{{cite web |url=http://fcofe.org.uk/latest-news |title=Free Church of England Celebrates 90 Years of Unity, Free Church of England Official Website |access-date=June 24, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170702083951/http://fcofe.org.uk/latest-news |archive-date=July 2, 2017 |url-status=dead }}

Fulfilling what Archbishop Foley Beach had already announced on June 8, 2017, on the same day that the Scottish Episcopal Church voted to approve same-sex marriage,{{Cite web|url=https://www.gafcon.org/news/missionary-bishop-introduced-by-archbishop-foley-beach|title=Missionary Bishop introduced by Archbishop Foley Beach | GAFCON|website=www.gafcon.org}} Andy Lines was consecrated Missionary Bishop to Europe at ACNA's Third Provincial Assembly meeting in Wheaton, Illinois, on June 30, 2017, on behalf of GAFCON.{{cite web|url=http://anglicanchurch.net/?/main/page/1476|title=Anglican Church in North America|website=anglicanchurch.net|language=en|access-date=July 1, 2017}} The consecration was attended by 1,400 Anglican representatives from all over the world, including 11 primates, 3 archbishops, and 13 bishops.{{Cite web|url=https://www.gafcon.org/news/the-consecration-of-a-missionary-bishop-for-europe|title=The consecration of a Missionary Bishop for Europe | GAFCON|website=www.gafcon.org}} The Primates who attended were Nicholas Okoh, from the Church of Nigeria, Stanley Ntagali, from the Church of Uganda, Daniel Deng Bul, from the Province of the Episcopal Church of South Sudan and Sudan, Jacob Chimeledya, from the Anglican Church of Tanzania, Jackson Ole Sapit, from the Anglican Church of Kenya, Onesphore Rwaje, from the Province of the Anglican Church of Rwanda, Zacharie Masimango Katanda, from the Province of the Anglican Church of the Congo, Daniel Sarfo, from the Church of the Province of West Africa, Gregory Venables, from the Anglican Church of South America, Ng Moon Hing, from the Church of the Province of South East Asia, and Mouneer Anis, retired Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church in Jerusalem and the Middle East. This was the largest gathering of worldwide Anglicans that ever participated at a Provincial Assembly of the ACNA.{{Cite web|url=https://virtueonline.org/wheaton-il-thirty-global-anglican-leaders-stand-solidarity-anglican-church-north-america|title=WHEATON, IL: Thirty Global Anglican Leaders Stand in Solidarity with Anglican Church in North America | VirtueOnline – The Voice for Global Orthodox Anglicanism|website=virtueonline.org}}{{self-published source|date=August 2018}}{{unreliable source?|certain=y|date=August 2018}}

On December 13, 2017, the Anglican Global South, a grouping of Southern Hemisphere provinces of the Anglican Communion, reaffirmed full communion with the Anglican Church in North America.{{cite web|url=http://www.globalsouthanglican.org/index.php/blog/comments/a_statement_from_the_global_south_primates_regarding_the_anglican_church_in|title=Global South Anglican - A Statement from the Global South Primates Regarding the Anglican Church in North America|website=www.globalsouthanglican.org|access-date=December 14, 2017}}

The ACNA was represented at GAFCON III, held in Jerusalem, from June 17–22, 2018, by a large delegation from the United States and Canada.{{Cite web|url=https://anglican.ink/2018/06/20/gafcon-iii-largest-pan-anglican-gathering-since-toronto-congress-of-1963/|title=GAFCON III largest pan-Anglican gathering since Toronto Congress of 1963 | Anglican Ink © 2023|website=anglican.ink}} At the final of the conference, it was announced that Archbishop Foley Beach will take office as Chairman of the GAFCON's Primates Council in early 2019.{{Cite news|url=http://www.anglican.ink/article/foley-beach-and-ben-kwash-lead-gafcon|title=Foley Beach and Ben Kwashi to lead GAFCON|date=June 22, 2018|work=Anglican Ink 2018 ©|access-date=June 23, 2018|language=en|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180623193945/http://www.anglican.ink/article/foley-beach-and-ben-kwash-lead-gafcon|archive-date=June 23, 2018|url-status=dead}} After the end of GAFCON III, ACNA held the meeting of their Provincial Council in Jerusalem, for the first time outside North America.{{cite web |title=Provincial Council Jerusalem Reports Growth of Church |url=http://anglicanchurch.net/?/main/page/1684 |website=Anglican Church in North America |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180703123447/http://anglicanchurch.net/?/main/page/1684 |archive-date=July 3, 2018 |url-status=dead}}

The ACNA endorsed a concordat with the Episcopal Missionary Church, a Continuing Anglican denomination, in January 2020, which was signed by Archbishop Foley Beach and EMC Presiding Bishop William Millsaps on 14 September 2020.{{cite web |title=College of Bishops Communiqué |url=http://www.anglicanchurch.net/?/main/page/1955 |website=Anglican Church in North America |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200206164745/http://www.anglicanchurch.net/?/main/page/1955 |archive-date=February 6, 2020 |date=January 2020 |url-status=dead}}{{Cite web|url=https://virtueonline.org/acna-and-episcopal-missionary-church-enter-formal-concordat|title=ACNA AND EPISCOPAL MISSIONARY CHURCH ENTER INTO FORMAL CONCORDAT | VirtueOnline – The Voice for Global Orthodox Anglicanism|website=virtueonline.org}}

In 2021, the ACNA College of Bishops released a pastoral statement rejecting the use of the phrase "gay Christian," instead recommending the phrase "same-sex attraction," and that restated the church's belief that sex is reserved for marriage between one man and one woman while acknowledging that celibate "same-sex attracted" people can be members of the denomination.{{Cite web|last=Otieno|first=Jeckonia|title=Homosexuality debate rages in the Anglican communion|url=https://www.standardmedia.co.ke/africa/article/2001405524/homosexuality-debate-rages-in-the-anglican-communion|access-date=2021-03-15|website=The Standard|language=en}} This statement divided the ACNA as well as GAFCON, the body of Anglican churches with which the ACNA is affiliated. Within the ACNA, Bishop Todd Hunter of the Diocese of Churches for the Sake of Others (C4SO) released his own pastoral statement in which he used both phrases "gay Christian" and "same-sex attracted," criticizing and departing from the College of Bishops' guidance, and in which he affirmed the membership of those who identify as "gay Christian" pursuing celibacy or "mixed orientation" marriages.{{Cite web |date=January 31, 2021 |title=C4SO Pastoral Guidance on the ACNA Statement on Sexuality and Identity |url=https://anglican.ink/2021/01/30/c4so-pastoral-guidance-on-the-acna-statement-on-sexuality-and-identity/ |access-date=2021-03-15 |website=anglican.ink}} Conversely, Archbishop Henry Ndukuba, the Primate of the Church of Nigeria, criticized and rejected the ACNA College of Bishops' pastoral guidance as being too open to homosexuality; Archbishop Ndukuba called on the ACNA to join the Church of Nigeria's "total rejection of homosexuality".{{Cite web |last=Ndukuba |first=Henry |date=February 27, 2021 |title=Church of Nigeria criticizes ACNA over "Dear Gay Anglicans" Letter |url=https://anglican.ink/2021/02/26/church-of-nigeria-criticizes-acna-over-dear-gay-anglicans-letter/ |access-date=2021-03-15 |website=anglican.ink}}{{Cite web|date=2021-03-02|title=Nigerian Primate Lashes Out at ACNA|url=https://livingchurch.org/2021/03/01/nigerian-primate-lashes-out-at-acna/|access-date=2021-03-15|website=The Living Church|language=en-US}} These actions received response from the Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, who released a statement that said people are able to be members of the Anglican Communion "regardless of sexual orientation" and without mention of celibacy.{{Cite web|date=2021-03-06|title=Justin Welby condemns Nigerian archbishop's gay 'virus' comments|url=http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/mar/06/justin-welby-condemns-nigerian-archbishop-henry-ndukuba-gay-virus-comments|access-date=2021-03-15|website=the Guardian|language=en}}{{Cite web|last=AM|first=Staff writer 06 March 2021 {{!}} 10:47|title=Justin Welby condemns Nigeria Primate's 'unacceptable' language on homosexuality|url=https://www.christiantoday.com/article/justin-welby-condemns-nigeria-primates-unacceptable-language-on-homosexuality/136472.htm|access-date=2021-03-15|website=www.christiantoday.com|date=March 6, 2021 |language=en}}

Archbishops Foley Beach, of the ACNA, and Henry Ndukuba, of the Church of Nigeria, signed a Joint Statement, on 30 March 2021, reaffirming both churches' common stance on human sexuality, as defined by the Lambeth 1998 resolution 1.10, and by the Jerusalem Declaration of 2008, of the Global Anglican Future Conference.{{Cite web|url=https://www.gafcon.org/sites/gafcon.org/files/news/pdfs/signed_joint_statement_from_abps_fb_hn_-_3.pdf|title=Joint Statement from Archbishop Foley Beach (Primate of the Anglican Church in North America (ACNA) and Archbishop Henry Ndukuba (Primate of the Church of Nigeria (CoN))}}

At the ACNA's inaugural assembly in June 2009, Metropolitan Jonah of the Orthodox Church in America, who was raised Episcopalian, while recognizing theological differences, said that he was "seeking an ecumenical restoration" between Orthodox and Anglicans in the United States.{{Cite web|url=http://acnaassembly.org/index2.php/acna/page/106|title=ACNA | Orthodox Church Leader Rekindles Relationship with Anglicans|date=June 26, 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090626031845/http://acnaassembly.org/index2.php/acna/page/106 |archive-date=June 26, 2009 }} An agreement was announced between Saint Vladimir's Orthodox Theological Seminary and Nashotah House, an Anglo-Catholic seminary, to guide ecumenical relationships and "new dialogue" between the two churches. Archbishop Foley Beach met Metropolitan Hilarion Alfeyev, Chairman of the Department of External Relations of the Russian Orthodox Church, at an ecumenical meeting that took place at St. Vladimir's Orthodox Theological Seminary in Yonkers, New York, on November 8, 2014. The main purpose of the meeting was the prosecution of the Anglican and Orthodox dialogue in the United States and other parts of the world.{{citation needed|date=August 2018}} Metropolitan Tikhon of the Orthodox Church in America was also present and invited Archbishop Foley Beach to the Orthodox All-American Council, which took place in Atlanta, Georgia, in July 2015.{{cite web |title=Archbishop Beach and Metropolitan Hilarion Encourage Anglican/Orthodox Ecumenical Dialogue |url=http://www.anglicanchurch.net/?/main/page/908 |website=Anglican Church in North America |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141111031401/http://www.anglicanchurch.net/?/main/page/908 |archive-date=November 11, 2014 |url-status=dead}}

At the invitation of Patriarch Kirill, Archbishop Beach led a nine-member ACNA delegation to Moscow, Russia, to participate in formal ecumenical meetings with the Russian Orthodox Church. The delegation met Metropolitan Hilarion and was officially received by Patriarch Kirill on August 23, 2015. Both churches expressed their desire to develop and deepen the ecumenical relationships between Orthodox and faithful Anglicans through the world. Archbishop Beach delivered a letter of greeting from Archbishop Eliud Wabukala, Archbishop of Kenya and Chairman of the GAFCON.{{cite web|url=http://anglicanchurch.net/?/main/page/1091|title=Anglican Church in North America|work=anglicanchurch.net|access-date=October 5, 2015}} The ACNA is about to start ecumenical relationships with Patriarch Bartholomew I of Constantinople, due to the mediation of Greek Orthodox Bishop Kyrillos Katerelos.{{cite web |url=https://c119b78671d19b8aee34-1ab073aa91389396dfc8b6aabc9b141e.ssl.cf2.rackcdn.com/Ecumenical_Affairs_-_2015_Provincial_Council_Vancouver_Cumulative_Report.pdf |title=Ecumenical Relations Task Force Report, College of Bishops/Provincial Council, Vancouver, British Columbia, June 22-26, 2015 |access-date=September 19, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151004035225/https://c119b78671d19b8aee34-1ab073aa91389396dfc8b6aabc9b141e.ssl.cf2.rackcdn.com/Ecumenical_Affairs_-_2015_Provincial_Council_Vancouver_Cumulative_Report.pdf |archive-date=October 4, 2015 |url-status=dead }}

Archbishop Foley Beach and Bishop Kevin Bond Allen met Patriarch Theophilos III, of the Greek Orthodox Church of Jerusalem, at the Church of the Holy Sepulcher, in Jerusalem, on May 31, 2017.{{cite web |title=Meeting Between Archbishop Beach and Patriarch Theophilos |url=http://anglicanchurch.net/?%2Fmain%2Fpage%2F1465 |website=Anglican Church in North America |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170605134142/http://anglicanchurch.net/?%2Fmain%2Fpage%2F1465 |archive-date=June 5, 2017 |url-status=dead}}

The ACNA representatives had a meeting with Pope Tawadros II of the Coptic Orthodox Church of Egypt, during his visit to the United States, on October 23, 2015, during which he was presented with a letter of Bishop Todd Hunter, welcoming him and celebrating the recent ecumenical dialogue held between Anglican and Coptic Orthodox churches.{{cite web |url=https://www.oikoumene.org/resources/documents/letter-to-pope-tawadros-ii-of-the-coptic-orthodox-church-in-egypt |title=Letter to Pope Tawadros II of the Coptic Orthodox Church in Egypt |access-date=February 7, 2024 |date=February 17, 2015}} Pope Tawadros II met Archbishop Foley Beach and Bishop Charlie Masters, of ACNA, during his meeting with several Global South representatives, in Cairo, in November 2015.{{Cite web|url=http://www.anglicannews.org/news/2015/11/anglican-archbishops-meet-with-coptic-pope-and-grand-imam-of-al-azhar.aspx|title=Anglican Archbishops meet with Coptic Pope and Grand Imam of Al-Azhar}}

The ACNA established dialogue with several Lutheran groups. In March 2010, the Lutheran Church – Missouri Synod announced that it and the ACNA would hold discussions to "explore dialogue".{{Cite news|last=Hoops |first=Linda C. |title=CTCR Adopts Environment-Stewardship Report |newspaper=Reporter |publisher=Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod |date=March 3, 2010 |url=http://www.lcms.org/pages/rpage.asp?NavID=16679 |access-date=June 11, 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100323213847/http://www.lcms.org/pages/rpage.asp?NavID=16679 |archive-date=March 23, 2010 }} The ACNA has approved a request from the North American Lutheran Church to share clergy where there are vacancies. In addition, there is a Lutheran group which has requested to be admitted into the ACNA as a diocese.Ray Sutton (November 2011), [http://anglicanchurch.net/media/ACNA_Annual_Report_2011_web2.pdf The Apostle: Anglican Church in North America's Ministry in Review Report] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120208170831/http://www.anglicanchurch.net/media/ACNA_Annual_Report_2011_web2.pdf |date=February 8, 2012 }}, p. 14. Accessed 10 December 2011.

A "Marriage Summit", was held in Dallas, Texas, May 3–5, 2013, with representatives of ACNA and three Lutheran denominations, the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod, the Lutheran Church-Canada and the North American Lutheran Church. It resulted in an official joint document, "An Affirmation of Marriage", approved by the heads of all the four church bodies and described as "a strong example of biblical ecumenicism at work", defining the divine nature of "marriage to be the life-long union of one man and one woman".{{cite web|url=http://www.canadianlutheran.ca/an-affirmation-of-marriage/|title=Canadian Lutheran Online » Blog Archive » An affirmation of marriage|work=Canadian Lutheran Online|date=June 3, 2013|access-date=October 5, 2015}}

The ACNA has held ten ecumenical dialogue meetings with the Polish National Catholic Church, since the first, held in Scranton, Pennsylvania, on June 19–20, 2012.[http://www.themdas.org/polish-national-catholic-church-and-anglican-church-in-north-america-dialogue-meeting-press-release/ Polish National Catholic Church and Anglican Church in North America Dialogue Meeting PRESS RELEASE, The Missionary Diocese of All Saints Official Website] The most recent took place at St. Vincent's Cathedral, in Bedford, Texas, on February 15–16, 2017.{{Cite web|url=http://www.fwepiscopal.org/news/PNCC10thmtg.html|title=Tenth Ecumenical Dialogue Meeting Between the Polish National Catholic Church (PNCC) and the Anglican Church in North America (ACNA), The Episcopal Diocese of Fort Worth Official Website, 15-16 February 2017|access-date=April 9, 2017|archive-date=April 10, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170410052322/http://www.fwepiscopal.org/news/PNCC10thmtg.html|url-status=dead}}

The ACNA has been involved with evangelical movements such as the Lausanne Conference on World Evangelism and has observer status with the National Association of Evangelicals. It has also established dialogue with the Charismatic Episcopal Church, the Presbyterian Church in America, and the United Methodist Church.{{cite web|url=https://c119b78671d19b8aee34-1ab073aa91389396dfc8b6aabc9b141e.ssl.cf2.rackcdn.com/Ecumenical_Affairs_-_2015_Provincial_Council_Vancouver_Cumulative_Report.pdf|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151004035225/https://c119b78671d19b8aee34-1ab073aa91389396dfc8b6aabc9b141e.ssl.cf2.rackcdn.com/Ecumenical_Affairs_-_2015_Provincial_Council_Vancouver_Cumulative_Report.pdf|url-status=dead|archive-date=2015-10-04|title=Anglican Church in North America|work=anglicanchurch.net|access-date=July 13, 2024}} The ACNA is also partnering with Messianic Jewish groups. The ACNA has also held ecumenical contacts with the Believers Eastern Church, an Evangelical denomination whose headquarters are situated in Kerala, India.{{cite web |title=Provincial Council 2016: Live Blog |url=http://www.anglicanchurch.net/?/main/page/1254 |website=Anglican Church in North America |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160625111455/http://www.anglicanchurch.net/?/main/page/1254 |archive-date=June 25, 2016}}

The ACNA has established friendly ecumenical relationships with the Roman Catholic Church. The Catholic Church was represented by Bishop Kevin Vann at their inaugural Provincial Assembly, in Bedford, Texas, on June 22, 2009. In October 2009, ACNA's leadership reacted to the Roman Catholic Church's proposed creation of personal ordinariates for disaffected traditionalist Anglicans by stating that although they believe that this provision will not be utilized by the great majority of its laity and clergy, they will happily bless those who are drawn to participate in this proposal.{{Cite web|url=http://www.anglicanchurch-na.org/stream/2009/10/anglican-church-north-america-responds-vatican-ann.html |website=Anglican Church |date=October 20, 2009 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20091023111759/http://www.anglicanchurch-na.org/stream/2009/10/anglican-church-north-america-responds-vatican-ann.html|url-status=dead|title=Anglican Church in North America responds to Vatican offer|archivedate=October 23, 2009}} The ACNA expressed its support for the Catholic Church's opposition to the 2012 US Health and Human Services' contraceptive mandate, with Archbishop Robert Duncan being one of the signatories of the statement of the Christian Associates of Southwest Pennsylvania, representing 26 Christian denominations, on April 13, 2012.{{cite web |url=http://www.casp.org/press-release-4-13-12-r.pdf |title=News Release |publisher=Christian Associates of Southwest Pennsylvania |date= 13 April 2012 |access-date=February 19, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150205070106/http://casp.org/press-release-4-13-12-r.pdf |archive-date=February 5, 2015 |url-status=dead |df=dmy-all }} Archbishop Duncan and Bishop Ray Sutton were also invited to the weekly private audience by Pope Benedict XVI, which took place in Rome, on November 28, 2012, whom they meet and greet afterwards on behalf of the ACNA and the Fellowship of Confessing Anglicans.{{cite web|url=http://www.anglicanchurch.net/?/main/page/548|title=Archbishop Duncan attends Papal Audience in Rome |work=Anglican Church in North America|access-date=October 5, 2015 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160121225835/http://www.anglicanchurch.net/?/main/page/548 |archive-date= Jan 21, 2016 }} The ACNA Provincial Assembly, which reunited more than 900 participants, and their College of Bishops conclave, which elected Foley Beach as the second Archbishop of the province, took place at the Roman Catholic Benedictine St. Vincent Archabbey Basilica, in Latrobe, Pennsylvania, on June 19–21, 2014, due to the kind permission of Archabbot Douglas Robert Nowicki, a personal friend of Archbishop Duncan.{{cite web|url=http://www.virtueonline.org/latrobe-pa-new-acna-archbishop-elect-introduced-media|title=LATROBE, PA: New ACNA Archbishop-elect introduced to the media |work=Virtueonline |date= June 25, 2014 |first1=Mary Ann |last1=Mueller |access-date=October 5, 2015}}{{self-published source|date=August 2018}}{{unreliable source?|certain=y|date=August 2018}} Archbishop Wilton Daniel Gregory of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Atlanta offered Foley Beach an African-made crozier, which he used at his investiture ceremony, that took place at the Church of the Apostles, in Atlanta, Georgia, at October 9, 2014. Former Archbishop Gregory Venables of the Anglican Church of the Southern Cone of America read at the ceremony a message by his personal friend Pope Francis, who sent Archbishop Foley Beach his "personal greetings and congratulations as he leads his church in the very important job of revival" and asked Archbishop Venables to embrace him on his behalf.{{cite web|url=http://anglicanink.com/article/papal-greetings-newest-anglican-archbishop|title=Papal greetings for newest Anglican archbishop|work=anglicanink.com|access-date=October 5, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151003200050/http://anglicanink.com/article/papal-greetings-newest-anglican-archbishop|archive-date=October 3, 2015|url-status=dead|df=dmy-all}}{{cite web|url=http://www.virtueonline.org/atlanta-acna-archbishop-recognized-primate-anglican-communion|title=ATLANTA: ACNA Archbishop Recognized as Primate in the Anglican Communion |work=Virtueonline|access-date=October 5, 2015}}{{self-published source|date=August 2018}}{{unreliable source?|certain=y|date=August 2018}}

The ACNA has started official talks with the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops. Bishop Ray Sutton, Provincial Dean for Ecumenical Affairs led the team that met with a USCCB delegation, led by Bishop Mitchell T. Rozanski, Chair of Ecumenical and Interreligious Affairs, in Chicago, Illinois, on October 12, 2016.{{cite web |title=The Anglican Church in North America builds ecumenical bridges |url=https://anglicanchurch.net/the-anglican-church-in-north-america-builds-ecumenical-bridges/ |website=Anglican Church in North America|date=January 6, 2017 }} In 2024, Sutton announced that the Vatican had begun an ecumenical dialogue with the ACNA and GAFCON which excluded the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Church of England, the Episcopal Church, and the Anglican Church of Canada.{{Cite web |last=PhD |first=Jules Gomes |date=2024-06-28 |title=Rome Moves Toward 'Full Communion' With Orthodox Anglicans |url=https://www.soulsandliberty.com/post/rome-moves-toward-full-communion-with-orthodox-anglicans |access-date=2025-04-22 |website=Souls and Liberty |language=en}} He stated that the process would be managed by the Vatican's Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith (DDF) and not by the Dicastery for Promoting Christian Unity, and that the Prefect of the DDF, with the Pope's approval, had accepted an ACNA proposal for dialogue with the USCCB, which was based on the framework set forth in the 1968 Malta Report, a document on ecumenical dialogue set forth by the Anglican-Roman Catholic Joint Preparatory Commission.{{Cite web |title=ARCJPC, Anglican-Roman Catholic Joint Preparatory Commission ~ IARCCUM.org |url=https://iarccum.org/org/?o=38 |access-date=2025-04-22 |website=iarccum.org}}

In January 2020, the ACNA endorsed a concordat with the Philippine Independent Catholic Church (formally known as the "International Conference of Philippine Independent Catholic Churches of Jesus Christ" since 2019), a breakaway faction from the Philippine Independent Church, in a meeting held in Melbourne, Florida, which was meant to be presented for approval by the Provincial Council in June that year. Later in the same year, the endorsement was approved and both churches signed a concordat of understanding.{{Cite web |title=Concordat of Understanding Between The Anglican Church in North America and The Philippine Independent Catholic Churches of Jesus Christ Also Known as Iglesia Catolica Filipina Indpendiente |url=https://anglicanchurch.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/ICFI-Concordat-Revised-3.pdf |publisher=The Anglican Church in North America |website=AnglicanChurch.net |access-date=November 1, 2022}}

At the 2024 ACNA Provincial Assembly in Latrobe, PA, Bishop Ray Sutton announced several updates on ecumenical relations between the ACNA and other churches.{{Cite web |title=Dropbox |url=https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/311edrr7amypnm25ofz00/ABsnEwrOfJrwVqRfKmp3_dA?dl=0&e=1&preview=Ecumenical+Relations+Task+Force+Report.docx&rlkey=lhi2pqxjfp1w3ip0ah1auqnuh&st=889vtwib |access-date=2025-04-22 |website=www.dropbox.com}} Sutton announced that the ACNA and the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Latvia (ELCL), Latvia's state church, had recognized full communion with one another. In July of 2022, Bishop Ryan Reed of the Episcopal Diocese of Fort Worth (also fashioned Anglican Diocese of Fort Worth) and then-ACNA Archbishop Foley Beach were invited by ELCL Archbishop Janis Vanags to participate in the consecration of an ELCL bishop through the laying on of hands. In addition, they were granted pulpit and altar privileges at the Cathedral Church of St. Mary in Riga, Latvia.

Bishop Sutton also announced that the Elder Board of Communio Messianica (CM), a movement of Muslim Background Believers,{{Cite web |title=About CM |url=https://www.communiomessianica.org/about |access-date=2025-04-22 |website=www.communiomessianica.org}} had determined to become Anglican and join GAFCON, through discussions with the Reformed Episcopal Church (REC), a diocese of the ACNA. In March of 2024, Communio Messianica's Yassir Eric was consecrated a bishop by Rwandan Anglican Archbishop and GAFCON Chairman Laurent Mbanda at Holy Trinity Cathedral in Kigali, Rwanda.{{Cite web |title=Consecration of Bishop Dr. Yassir Eric |url=https://www.communiomessianica.org/consecration-of-bishop-dr-yassir-eric |access-date=2025-04-22 |website=www.communiomessianica.org}}

In August 2010, the executive committee approved the creation of a task force on "Islam and interfaith engagement". Regarding the task force, Julian Dobbs, a member of the ACNA College of Bishops and Missionary Bishop of the Convocation of Anglicans in North America, stated, "we need to undertake a prayerful, sensitive and honest approach to the issues involved".Anglican Church in North America, [http://www.anglicanchurch.net/?/main/page/146 Executive Committee Calls for Task Force on 'Islam and Interfaith Engagement'"]. Accessed July 13, 2011.

In its 2011 annual report, the ACNA said it was forming partnerships with Messianic Jewish groups to proselytize.

Archbishop Foley Beach and Bishop Charlie Masters, of ACNA, met the Grand Imam of Al-Azhar, Ahmed el-Tayeb, when he welcomed a delegation of several Global South representatives during their visit to Egypt in November 2015. Ahmed el-Tayeb expressed the "importance of the partnership and collegiality between religious leaders for the common good of humanity" and his solidarity with the Anglican realignment. He also stated that Christians and Muslims should be united in their opposition to the pressure for the acceptance of same-sex marriage and homosexual practice, especially in the western world.{{Cite web|url=https://virtueonline.org/egypt-anglican-archbishops-meet-grand-imam-al-azhar|title=EGYPT: Anglican Archbishops Meet With the Grand Imam of Al-Azhar | VirtueOnline – The Voice for Global Orthodox Anglicanism|website=virtueonline.org}}{{self-published source|date=August 2018}}{{unreliable source?|certain=y|date=August 2018}}

He visited Pakistan in November 2019, at invitation of the Kul Masalak Ulama Board Leadership, where he attended an interfaith gathering with Muslim scholars, in Lahore, on 19 November 2019.{{Cite web|url=https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2019/11/20/american-archbishop-lauds-cop-for-uniting-church-leaders/|title=American archbishop lauds CoP for uniting church leaders, Pakistan Today, 20 November 2019}}

In the wake of the terrorist attack to the Tree of Life Synagogue, in Pittsburgh, on October 27, 2018, Archbishop Beach expressed his full solidarity with the Jewish communities of the United States and endorsed the "ShowUpForShabbat" initiative by which ACNA parish members were to attend local synagogues for the Shabbat.{{cite web |title=A Call to Solidarity |url=http://www.anglicanchurch.net/?/main/page/1739 |website=Anglican Church in North America |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181124074401/http://www.anglicanchurch.net/?/main/page/1739 |archive-date=November 24, 2018 |url-status=dead}}

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