Where Does the Anglican Church of the Holy Spirit Belong?

The Church in America

Western United States

Anglican Church
​of North America

Diocese of Western Anglicans

About
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The Anglican Church in North America unites 132,000 Anglicans in 1,004 congregations across the United States, Canada, and Mexico into a single Church. On April 16, 2009 it was recognized as a province of the global Anglican Communion, by the Primates of the Global Fellowship of Confessing Anglicans. The Most Rev. Dr. Foley Beach is the Archbishop of the Church.

What we Stand For

Members of the Anglican Church in North America are in the mainstream, both globally and historically, of Christianity – the biblically-faithful way of following Jesus and being part of the “One Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church.” As Anglicans, this orthodoxy is defined by and centered on our church’s classic formularies – the Book of Common Prayer, including the Ordinal, and the Thirty-nine Articles – which all point back to the authority of the Holy Bible and articulate foundational principles of the Anglican tradition throughout the world. We wholeheartedly embrace the The Jerusalem Declaration, the founding declaration of the Global Fellowship of Confessing Anglicans ("Anglican Church in North America").
"The Diocese of Western Anglicans is an Anglican Church in North America founding diocese. It has currently 35 congregations in the American states of California, Arizona, Nevada, Idaho, Montana, Washington and Wyoming. The state with most congregations is California with 20, followed by Arizona with 8.[1] His headquarters are located in Long Beach, California. Their first bishop was the Right Rev. William "Bill" Thompson, who resigned in 2014. He was succeeded as Vicar General by the Right Rev. Frank Lyons in June 2014.
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The process that led to the birth of the diocese was started when 14 orthodox parishes from Southern California and Arizona, who had left the Episcopal Church and were under the supervision of the Anglican Church of the Southern Cone of America and the Church of Uganda, held a meeting of 60 delegates in June 2007. They adopted the Theological Statement of the Common Cause Partnership and elected an Executive Committee. In October 2007, at the reunion of the House of the Delegates it was decided to launch the Association of Western Anglicans Congregations and the Diocese of Western Anglicans as a diocese-in-formation. They joined the Common Cause Partnership in 2008 and formed the new diocese who was recognized as a member of the Anglican Church in North America in their Provincial Assembly held in Dallas, Texas, in April 2009. The diocese had then 21 parishes and an average Sunday attendance of 2,000.[2] Rev. William Thompson was elected the diocesan bishop at the College of Bishops of the first Provincial Assembly of the ACNA in 19-20 June 2009. On October 10, 2014, the Anglican Church of North America elected Keith Andrews as the second bishop of the diocese. He was consecrated on January 25, 2015, at St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church, in Newport Beach, California.[3]" ("Diocese of Western Anglicans").
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Leadership of the Church

ARCHBISHOP AND PRIMATE OF THE ANGLICAN CHURCH IN NORTH AMERICA

The Most Reverend Doctor Foley Beach was elected the Archbishop of the Anglican Church in North America on June 22, 2014. He is also the Bishop of the Anglican Diocese of the South, headquartered in a suburb of Atlanta, Georgia.

Bishop Keith Andrews, Bishop of the Western Anglican Diocese

On October 10, 2014, the Anglican Church of North America elected Keith Andrews as the second bishop of the diocese. He was consecrated on January 25, 2015, at St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church, in Newport Beach, California.

THE VERY REVEREND THOMAS H. PHILLIPS
Dean of Arizona

Was called as Dean of the Deanery of Arizona and states that it is both an honor and a challenge. It comes after over 50 years of his journey with Jesus Christ.
"Anglican Church in North America." Anglican Church 2018. http://www.anglicanchurch.net/index.php/main/about /.Accessed 12 August 2018. 
"Diocese of Western Anglicans." Wikipedia, 10 Mar. 2017. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/diocese_of_western_a nglicans. Accessed 12 August 2018. 
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