Anglican Church in America

The Anglican Church in America is a breakaway of the American Episcopal Church, traditionally -believing church in the United States. The church was founded in 1991 by the merger of the American Episcopal Church and the Anglican - Catholic Church parts, and its first head was Louis Falk.

Members and communities of today's Anglican Church in America parted in 1977 by the Episcopal Church in the United States after this 1976 women admitted to the priesthood and a revision process for the Book of Common Prayer ( a liturgical book ) initiated, be the result of the liturgical reform movement should and culminated in the Book of Common Prayer of 1979. They still used the Book of Common Prayer of the Episcopal Church in the United States from 1928 and rejects both the consecration of gay bishop Gene Robinson as well as the participation in various ecumenical bodies. It relies on what they referred to as traditional line of the Anglican Church, although it is not in full communion with the Church of England, something that is considered by many others as an essential feature of an Anglican church. It forms a part of the Traditional Anglican Communion.

Structure

The Anglican Church in America is divided into six dioceses:

• The Diocese of Eastern U.S. - Alabama, Delaware, the District of Columbia, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Maryland, Mississippi, New Jersey, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia and by West Virginia.
• The Diocese of Missouri Valley - Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota and Wisconsin.
• The Diocese of the Southwest - Arkansas, Colorado, Louisiana, New Mexico, Oklahoma and Texas.
• The Diocese of the West - Alaska, Arizona, California, Hawaii, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, Oregon, Utah, Washington and Wyoming.
• The Diocese Northeast - Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New York, Rhode Iceland and Vermont.
• The Diocese of Central America - including all the countries of Latin America

The extensive dioceses are characterized by a very low density of the communities. Thus, the Diocese of Eastern U.S., only one community in the states of Alabama, Georgia, Kentucky, Maryland, New Jersey or Pennsylvania, none in Delaware, Mississippi, Ohio, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia or in the capital district ( District of Columbia), five in Florida and two in North Carolina, for a total of 13 municipalities in a room with 104 million inhabitants and a size that is roughly equivalent to France, Germany and Spain. For comparison, the Episcopal Church in the same area 36 dioceses, all of which at least 13 municipalities, but many have several hundred communities.