Showing posts with label schism. Show all posts
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Tuesday, December 9, 2008

Once you schism you can't stop...

Okay, I know that the Anglican church exists because they schismed from the Catholic church...

Here is a list of formerly Anglican denominations who schismed at one point.

  • American Episcopal Church - 1968-1991 (merged into Anglican Church in America)
  • Anglican Catholic Church - 1977, 5,000 in US
  • Anglican Catholic Church of Canada - 1977
  • Anglican Church in America - 1991, about 5,200 in US (merger between American Episcopal Church and some Anglican Catholic Church parishes)
  • Anglican Diocese of Arizona
  • Anglican Episcopal Church
  • Anglican Mission in America (AMiA) - 2000
  • Anglican Orthodox Church - 1963
  • Anglican Province of America - 1974
  • Anglican Province of Christ the King - 1977 (about 8,000 in US)
  • Christian Episcopal Church - 2002 (resulted from a split in the Episcopal Missionary Church Diocese of the West)
  • Church of England (Continuing) - 1994
  • Diocese of the Great Lakes - 1998 (formed from clergy of the Independent Anglican Diocese of Ontario and the Missionary District of the USA with the Independent Anglican Church [Canada Synod])
  • Diocese of the Holy Cross (separated from the Anglican Province of Christ the King)
  • Episcopal Missionary Church - 1992
  • Episcopal Orthodox Christian Archdiocese of America - 1999
  • Evangelical Connexion of the Free Church of England - 2003 (separated from the Free Church of England)
  • Free Church of England - 1844
  • Holy Catholic Church-Western Rite- 1997, in Latin America, Europe, and South Africa (separated from the Anglican Church in America and the Traditional Anglican Communion)
  • King's Family of Churches - 2003 (40,000 in Spain)
  • Orthodox Anglican Church - 1964-1999, 1999 (separated from the high-church Episcopal Orthodox Christian Archdiocese of America, who was originally the low-church Orthodox Anglican Church)
  • Orthodox Anglican Communion - 1967
  • Reformed Episcopal Church - 1873
  • Traditional Anglican Communion - 1991 (trying to rejoin the Roman Catholic Church without giving up Anglican core values)
  • Traditional Church of England
  • Traditional Protestant Episcopal Church - 1986 (formed by clergy who left the Anglican Catholic Church and other Continuing Anglican denominations)
  • United Episcopal Church of North America - 1981 (separated from Anglican Catholic Church but is now in communion)