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, Nthn Qld), New Zealand, Japan
Separated from Anglican Church of Australia
Congregations 25
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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.

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