A New Diocese in England

The “Anglican Realignment” has manifested itself in many ways.

The Global Anglican Futures Conference (Gafcon) has united around the 2008 Jerusalem Declaration and in the Kigali Commitment of 2023 made clear their repudiation of the authority of the Archbishop of Canterbury. Likewise, the Global South Fellowship of Anglicans (GSFA) has evolved from a once regional organisation to a global one focused on the Cairo Covenant. GSFA is gathering in Cairo for a significant meeting in its development in just a few weeks’ time.

The global realignment has resulted in two new Provinces – the Anglican Church in Brazil (Igreja Anglicana no Brasil) and the Anglican Church in North America (ACNA). These are not without significance. The former is seemingly the largest Anglican jurisdiction in that country and the same is true of the Canadian part of the ACNA.

More recently Gafcon has recognised other smaller structures: the Church of Confessing Anglicans Aotearoa New Zealand (CCAANZ), the Diocese of the Southern Cross in Australia and the Anglican Network in Europe (ANiE).

ANiE is the creation of the Gafcon Primates Council, who in 2020, after seven years of preliminary work, determined that Europe should have a new proto-Province – ANiE comprised of two proto-dioceses – the Anglican Mission in England (AMiE) (which has been in existence under the auspices or Gafcon since 2013) and the Anglican Convocation in Europe (ACE).

Over the intervening four years, with the consecration of two assisting bishops for each, both AMiE and ACE have become dioceses under the overarching leadership of Presiding Bishop Right Revd Andy Lines.

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