Anglican Church in America

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Classification	Anglican
Orientation	Anglo-Catholic
Polity	Episcopal
Associations	Traditional Anglican Communion, Federation of Anglican Churches in the Americas
Geographical areas	United States
Founder	Louis Falk
Origin	1991 Florida, USA
Merge of	American Episcopal Church and approximately 1/3 of the parishes of the Anglican Catholic Church
Separations	Anglican Province of America
Congregations	approximately 100
Members	5,200

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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 (TAC). The ACA is separate from the Episcopal Church and is not a member of the Anglican Communion centered on the Archbishop of Canterbury.

The Anglican Church in America was created in 1991 following extensive negotiations between the Anglican Catholic Church (ACC) and the American Episcopal Church (AEC). 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.

Since 2007, the Traditional Anglican Communion has been seeking unity with the Roman Catholic Church while still retaining aspects of its Anglican heritage.^[1] Anglican Use parishes, created principally for former members of the Episcopal Church, are already in full communion with the Pope. The Vatican has answered to this demand by the Apostolic Constitution Anglicanorum Coetibus opening a wide possibility of corporate reunion with Rome for anglicans seeking ful sacramental communion.

The ACA claims roughly 100 parishes with a membership around 5,200^[2]. The Most Reverend Louis W. Falk is President of the ACA House of Bishops and the Right Reverend George Langberg is Vice-President. The Primate is the Most Reverend John Hepworth, Archbishop of the Traditional Anglican Communion (TAC).

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