Anglican Church in America
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The Anglican Church in America (ACA) is a Continuing Anglican church body and the United States branch of the Traditional Anglican Communion. The ACA is separate from the Episcopal Church, a province of the Anglican Communion which is centered on the Archbishop of Canterbury.
The ACA was created in 1991 following extensive negotiations between the Anglican Catholic Church and the American Episcopal Church. The effort was aimed at overcoming disunity in the Continuing Anglican Movement. This was only partially successful; most ACC parishes declined to enter the new ACA, resulting in a continuing existence for the ACC, while the remainder of its parishes and some of its bishops joined the AEC in forming the new church. In 1995, some parishes which had formerly been part of the AEC, primarily in the East and the Pacific Northwest, withdrew from the ACA and formed the Anglican Province of America under the leadership of Bishop Walter Grundorf. Present membership of the ACA is unknown, but its parishes, more than 80 in number, are to be found in most regions of the United States.
The current primate of the ACA is the Rt. Rev. George D. Langberg, Bishop of the Diocese of the Northeast and former Vice-President of the church's House of Bishops.
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