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No, not necessarily.

But maybe.

The first two are in close discussions for full union, with ACC and DHC in the mix. And that is most likely to come about. APCK will walk alone, as always.

OTOH, there’s history to consider.

Not to worry, we Continuing Anglicans will worry for you.
 
How does the BCP work, is it like the Missal where when a new one is released all Churches must by a date use the latest typical edition, or are Anglicans allowed to use which ever BCP they prefer?
 
Speaking only for those who use the American 1928 ( as is proper), there’s the useful and added “…or such other times as the Minister shall appoint”.
 
Anglicans can do pretty much as they wish, yes. Or not. So it depends.

I’ve attended services from the 1549, 1552, 1559, 1662, one occasion from the American 1979, the Anglican Missal, and, normatively, the American 1928.

Motley.
 
I find the inclusion of the Ango-Catholics in that mix to be the most curious, GK. So many in ACA and APA strike me as Reformed-minded ( no experience with DHC). What’s your take on that?
As far as APCK, they’re present out west here, and have a lovely old building in Chico. I attended there once, and was saddened by the low attendance (ditto with Berkeley).
 
APA is the outlier. But there are other odd things like friendly contacts with REC, and close talks with the PNCC. Who knows.

APCK has come down in the world, but still stand proudly and some what lonely on its isolated roost.

A relative of mine graduated from their Seminary, St. Joseph’s of Arimathea. And, inevitably, in the shifting jurisdictions of Continuum-dom, I’ve been a member of a APCK parish.
 
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Added. And except for APA, Anglo-Catholics abound in the 3 other players.
 
I have a friend who’s a member of an REC parish that is apparently quite Anglo-Catholic in their worship style.
It really is a hodge podge, yes?
 
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Motley is le mot juste.

Been awhile since I’ve seen any REC clergy, around the parish for various events, but it once was not all that unusual. And, years back, I had heard that they were trying to up their game, liturgically speaking.
 
I believe the proposed 1928 English BCP also has this provision together with the option of baptism following the third collect at MP/EP. Choices… choices!
 
Prodigal1984 said:
How does the BCP work, is it like the Missal where when a new one is released all Churches must by a date use the latest typical edition, or are Anglicans allowed to use which ever BCP they prefer?
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My brother attends an ACNA parish. They are making this new BCP the “official one” for the entire church, but parishes are not necessarily mandated to use it. The old archbishop Bob Duncan said they wanted to produce a prayer book that churches want to use. Currently, bruh’s parish uses the 1979 BCP since it’s coming out of TEC, but they announced that they would be starting to transition to the new one this summer.

As I understand it, ACNA has a provision in its constitution saying that the 1662 BCP is the"standard" for Anglican worship, and I believe there is a guarantee that churches can continue to use any BCP they came into ACNA with. So, there is still options for those who don’t like the new BCP, but I’d assume that it would become the “main” one over time as people get used to it.

This is the first prayer book produced by the ACNA, so there hasn’t been one single official one up to this point. Churches have just used whatever books they inherited from TEC or the Anglican Church in Canada or the REC or wherever.
 
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Is ACNA different than the Episcopal Church? I always thought every Church in the Anglican communion had a national church and since the American Revolution it has been the Episcopal Church where before that it was just the Church of England.

What I mean is, is this Anglican Church of North America even technically in the Anglican Communion or are they some sort of schismatics?
Forgive me I just don’t know much about them. I always thought they were structured somewhat like the Eastern Orthodox.
 
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Is ACNA different than the Episcopal Church? I always thought every Church in the Anglican communion had a national church and since the American Revolution it has been the Episcopal Church where before that it was just the Church of England.
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ACNA is a new church that is outside of the Anglican Communion but formed by churches and dioceses that left the Episcopal Church and the Anglican Church of Canada. They aren’t actually “continuing churches”, more like “Anglican realignment churches.” They are in communion with a lot of the conservative national churches in the Anglican Communion (ones in Africa and Asia), which have broken communion with TEC.
 
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So technically this new BCP isn’t even authorized by a Church in good standing with the Anglican Communion ? I don’t know coming from the Catholic faith that seems like a schismatic thing but maybe it is different in Anglicanism.
 
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ACNA is a new church that is outside of the Anglican Communion but formed by churches and dioceses that left the Episcopal Church and the Anglican Church of Canada. They aren’t actually “continuing churches”, more like “Anglican realignment churches.” They are in communion with a lot of the conservative national churches in the Anglican Communion (ones in Africa and Asia), which have broken communion with TEC.
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Oh that’s interesting…
 
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So technically this new BCP isn’t even authorized by a Church in good standing with the Anglican Communion ? I don’t know coming from the Catholic faith that seems like a schismatic thing but maybe it is different in Anglicanism.
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There really isn’t much of an “Anglican Communion” anymore when half the churches aren’t in communion with the other half.
 
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There really isn’t much of an “Anglican Communion” anymore when half the churches are in communion with each other.
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Oh I see. I apologize for my ignorance. Like I said I always thought Anglicanism was structured like the Orthodox where they are are in communion but have much independence as well but like the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople is the first among equals for Orthodox, the Archbishop of Canterbury was that for Anglicans.

I learn something new every day.
 
The ACNA, while it is in communion with some of the constituent Churches that comprise the Anglican Communion, is not in the Communion, as is the American Episcopal Church. Nor are the group of smaller Anglican jurisdictions that are collectively and rather unofficially referred to as the Anglican Continuum.

There being no necessarily definitive and over-arching authoritative structure for the herd of cats that is generic Anglicanism, one finds a motley collection under the over-all title.
And the Archbishop of Canterbury, while having one of his titles head of the Communion, he is not first among equals there. All Anglican Communion Churches are independent, equal and autocephalous.
 
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Oh I see. I apologize for my ignorance. Like I said I always thought Anglicanism was structured like the Orthodox where they are are in communion but have much independence as well but like the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople is the first among equals for Orthodox, the Archbishop of Canterbury was that for Anglicans.

I learn something new every day.
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It was and is to a degree, but the increasing theological liberalism of certain Anglican churches has brought the Communion to a breaking point. The roots of ACNA go back to the 2000s when the US and Canadian churches were just beginning to recognized gay marriage, etc. Anglican churches in Africa and Latin America offered conservatives in the US and Canada “alternative primatial oversight” and lots of parishes and even entire dioceses placed themselves under foreign bishops.

The Episcopal Church claimed within the councils of the Anglican Communion that these “illegal border crossings” were wrong and had to be stopped. The Africans said the LGBT stuff was wrong and needed to stop. Neither side backed down. So the Africans and some others in the Anglican Communion created the Fellowship of Confessing Anglicans, which is starting to function in many ways as an alternative Anglican Communion.

ACNA does have an undefined relationship with the Church of England, and the Archbishop of Canterbury has invited some ACNA representatives to the latest Lambeth Conference as observers. However, last I heard the ACNA wasn’t going out of solidarity with the African provinces who are boycotting.
 
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