By Region
- The FCA was instrumental in the formation of the Anglican Church in North America in 2008-09. The ACNA was formed as an alternative church structure for those disaffected by the official Anglican structures in the USA and Canada.
- The FCA was launched in the United Kingdom and Ireland on 6 July 2009, drawing together conservative Anglicans in the Church of England and other parts of the British Isles. The Free Church of England is also represented on the Steering Group.
- The FCA was launched in South Africa on 3 September 2009 by the initiative of Bishop Bethlehem Nopece, of the Anglican Diocese of Port Elizabeth. It incorporates Anglicans from three denominations: the Anglican Church of Southern Africa, the Church of England in South Africa and the Traditional Anglican Communion. At the launch of the FCA South Africa, Canon Dr Vinay Samuel of India told participants:
- “Can you bring the biblical resources of faith to shape the heart of South Africa’s agenda. Will its agenda be shaped by simply an ideology of rights and use the iconic status of leaders such as Desmond Tutu and Nelson Mandela to silence any other view? That is not a great gift to the world from South Africa. You will draw on the best of South Africa’s journey of social transformation. But you are called to the prophetic stance of the obedient disciple, rather than the stance of political people who have become messianic with the new universal of human rights which is now being imposed, claiming that these rights are self-evident –and if the Bible teaches anything different it is to be rejected. They own the Bible, and claim the Holy Spirit, for the service of this ideology. That is based on power, not on obedience.”
- The Anglican Church of the Southern Cone of America, which covers much of South America, is a key constituent of the FCA movement.
- The Anglican Diocese of Sydney, Australia played an important role in forming the FCA and its Archbishop Peter Jensen is the FCA's secretary.
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