Anglican Church in America

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Anglican Church in America
The ACA Crest.
Classification	Continuing Anglican
Orientation	Anglo-Catholic
Polity	Episcopal
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
Associations	Traditional Anglican Communion
Geographical Area	United States
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 which is a member church 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 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.

Since 2006, the Traditional Anglican Communion has been actively engaged in talks with the Roman Catholic Church and is seeking to come into unity with Rome while still retaining some aspects of its Anglican heritage. The Vatican has not yet formally acted upon this initiative although some Roman Catholic clergy have privately commented that they think the possibilities for success exist. In the meantime the Anglican Church in America, through its bishops, has taken the stand that it is interested in union in whichever manner Rome is willing to fashion it. Meanwhile, the ACA has accepted many of the teachings of the Roman Catholic Church that have been traditionally rejected by Anglicans and which were specifically rejected by the founding document of the Continuing Anglican movement, the Affirmation of St. Louis.

The ACA claims roughly 100 parishes with a membership around 5,200^[1]. The primate is the Right Reverend George D. Langberg, Bishop of the Diocese of the Northeast and former Vice-President of the church's House of Bishops.