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New American Anglican church drafts constitution
As the The Anglican District of Virginia celebrates its second anniversary this week, Orthodox Anglican leaders representing over 100,000 congregants introduced a draft constitution for a new North American church body that is separate from the U.S. Episcopal Church.
On Dec. 3, the Convocation of Anglicans in North America (CANA) issued a statement of support for the provisional constitution that will unite orthodox North American Anglicans under a new province.
CANA leaders, including Missionary Bishop Martyn Minns, joined representatives of the Common Cause Partnership, a federation representing more than 100,000 orthodox Anglican Christians in North America, in Wheaton, Ill., to introduce the provisional constitution for the new province.
“This constitution represents a major component of the new Anglican province’s structural and spiritual foundation. We support this constitution as it reflects the very qualities that all of us in CANA and in Common Cause have hoped for in the new Anglican province: biblically grounded, Christ-centered, mission driven, outwardly focused, committed to evangelism and discipleship, and proudly Anglican,” said Minns.
The landmark event follows the June 2008 gathering of the Global Anglican Future Conference (GAFCON) in which leaders representing half of the world’s 77 million Anglicans called for a new Anglican body in North America as part of a formal declaration of faith.
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