Anglican Catholic Church in Australia

Anglican Catholic Church in Australia
ACCA coat of arms.
Classification	Continuing Anglican
Orientation	Anglo-Catholic
Polity	Episcopal
Associations	Traditional Anglican Communion
Region	Australia (ex-Torres Strait, N^thn Qld), New Zealand, Japan
Separated from	Anglican Church of Australia
Congregations	25

Part of a series on the Continuing Anglican Movement
Background
Christianity · Western Christianity · English Reformation · Anglicanism · Controversy within The Episcopal Church (United States) · Book of Common Prayer · Congress of St. Louis · Affirmation of St. Louis · Bartonville Agreement · North American Anglican Conference
People
Albert A. Chambers · James Parker Dees · Charles D. D. Doren · Thomas Gordon · William Millsaps · Robert S. Morse · Stephen C. Reber · Peter D. Robinson · Peter Toon
Churches
Anglican Catholic Church Anglican Catholic Church in Australia Anglican Catholic Church of Canada Anglican Church in America Anglican Episcopal Church Anglican Orthodox Church Anglican Province of America Anglican Province of Christ the King Christian Episcopal Church Church of England (Continuing) Diocese of the Great Lakes Diocese of the Holy Cross Episcopal Missionary Church Holy Catholic Church—Western Rite Orthodox Anglican Church Orthodox Anglican Communion Traditional Anglican Church of America Traditional Anglican Communion United Episcopal Church of North America

The Anglican Catholic Church in Australia (ACCA) is the regional jurisdiction of the Traditional Anglican Communion for most of Australia. The Church of Torres Strait has jurisdiction in Queensland from the Torres Strait islands to just south of Townsville, as well as personal jurisdiction over Torres Strait Islanders throughout Australia.

The former Bishop Ordinary of the ACCA, John Hepworth, was also the Primate of the Traditional Anglican Communion.

In February 2010, the Anglican Catholic Church in Australia, along with Forward in Faith Australia, filed a petition to the Roman Catholic Church's Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith in the Vatican to join the Roman Catholic Church as a personal ordinariate under the apostolic constitution Anglicanorum Coetibus. The Church of Torres Strait submitted a similar but separate proposal in May 2010.

Archbishop Hepworth resigned as Bishop Ordinary of the ACCA on 2 August 2012.

Some priests of the ACCA have joined the personal ordinariate, along with some of their people. Despite the corporate petitions to Rome, Anglicanorum Coetibus did not make any provisions for the reception of entire ecclesial bodies. Some clergy and parishes remained in the ACCA and on 18 October 2013 (the 25th anniversary of the consecration of Albert Haley, the first Bishop Ordinary of the ACCA) a new Bishop Ordinary, Michael Pope, was consecrated for the ACCA in Lincoln, England, in the same ceremony in which Ian Gray was consecrated for the Traditional Anglican Church in Britain.

The ACCA is not affiliated with the Anglican Catholic Church (Original Province)'s Missionary Diocese of Australia & New Zealand.

External links

• Anglican Catholic Church in Australia website