By Jeffrey Walton, Juicy Ecumenism. (photo credit: Jeffrey Walton)
The largest local Anglican congregation in North America is a southern California megachurch formed in 2011.
Vintage Church LA, a congregation affiliated with the Holy Trinity Brompton network and part of the Anglican Church in North America (ACNA) Diocese of Churches for the Sake of Others (C4SO) now ranks as the most-attended, with an average of 3,000 in the pews in 2024. The church employs a multi-site model, with five services across two locations in El Segundo and Santa Monica, California totaling 2,800 on a Sunday, alongside two smaller churches within the same family in Malibu and Pasadena with 150.
The information was part of two lists of diocesan and parish-level information made available by ACNA officials this week following the June 19 annual Provincial Council at which officials reported a province-wide 13.4 percent increase in average Sunday attendance across 2024.
Nearly every diocese in the ACNA reported attendance growth, with many seeing sustained double-digit increases across the past two years. The largest by attendance continues to be C4SO, which increased 33 percent from 8,214 to 12,260 in 2024, followed by the Diocese of South Carolina which grew 13.49% from 7,663 to 8,858. South Carolina continues to have the largest membership in the province of 17,103. The full list is included below.