History
In January 1978, four bishops (Charles David Dale Doren, James O. Mote, Robert Morse and Francis Watterson) were consecrated. What had provisionally been called the Anglican Church in North America (Episcopal) eventually divided. The Canadian parishes formed the Anglican Catholic Church of Canada, and American parishes formed two separate bodies, the Anglican Catholic Church and the Diocese of Christ the King.
In 1984 the five dioceses of the Church of India (CIPBC) were received by the Anglican Catholic Church and constituted as its Second Province.
Since 1990 the Anglican Catholic Church has expanded to twelve dioceses in the Americas, the United Kingdom and Australia. Also during this period a number of parishes left the Anglican Catholic Church to merge with the American Episcopal Church and form the Anglican Church in America. Additional parishes left and formed the Holy Catholic Church (Anglican Rite).
In October 2005 the Most Reverend Mark D. Haverland of Athens, Georgia replaced John Charles Vockler as archbishop and metropolitan.
On May 17, 2007, Haverland signed an intercommunion agreement negotiated with the United Episcopal Church of North America. At the 17th Provincial Synod, October 2007, the Right Reverend Wilson Garang and his Diocese of Aweil in Sudan were received into the Anglican Catholic Church so that today the Anglican Catholic Church (Original Province) has over 250 parish churches and missions worldwide, not including the second province of India.
In October 2008 Bishop Presley Hutchens of the ACC addressed the United Episcopal Church of North America's ninth triennial convention and discussed uniting the ACC and UECNA.
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