Order of St. Anne (Anglican)

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The Order of St. Anne (OSA) is an Anglican religious order of nuns{{cite web |url=http://orders.anglican.org/arcyb/page44.html |title=OSA Bethany |website=orders.anglican.org |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100706062100/http://www.orders.anglican.org/arcyb/page44.html |archive-date=2010-07-06}} founded in 1910 by the Rev. Frederick Cecil Powell,{{citation needed|date=July 2011}} a member of the Society of St. John the Evangelist, and by its first member and superior Etheldred Barry (a children's book illustrator, whose work included the Little Colonel series made famous on screen by Shirley Temple) at Arlington Heights, Massachusetts.

The Order conducted a school for girls on the Arlington site which subsequently became the Germaine Lawrence School, which continues today. Another group of sisters from Arlington founded a community - Bethany - in China, which moved to the Philippines after foreign Christian groups were expelled after the Chinese Communist Revolution. The group returned to the United States in the 1970s with several Filipina members, and worked first at a school in Lincoln and then moved to a new house on the original Arlington site, adjacent to a small group who remained there and to the Germaine Lawrence School. The [https://www.chapelofstanne.org/ Bethany Convent] continues a ministry of prayer today. Its superior is Sr Ana Clara.

The Convent of St. Anne in Chicago was established at the Anglo-Catholic Church of the Ascension in 1921 in response to a call from the rector and vestry for sisters to do missionary work in the parish.George C. Giles, Jr. History of the Church of the Ascension, Chicago, Illinois 1857-1982 Aberdeen, South Dakota: North Plains Press, 1984. The Chicago convent is autonomous, called to parish work.Conference of Anglican religious orders in the Americas The nuns work in the Church of the Ascension as teachers and counselors.

As of 2008, Sister Judith Marie was the Reverend Mother of the Chicago convent.[http://www.orders.anglican.org/caroa/Intercessions.htm Monthly intercession cycle] of the Conference of Anglican Religious Orders in the Americas As of 2022, she is the only remaining nun there.{{cite news |url=https://chicago.suntimes.com/2022/2/25/22949484/mandrath-judith-last-nun-chicago-episcopal-convent-order-saint-anne|title=The last nun left at Near North Side Episcopal convent isn’t leaving without a fight}}