Oklahoma Clergy hail birth of a denomination

Posted by Kendall Harmon

Two Tulsa-area ministers are elated about the historic creation of the Anglican Church in North America, a denomination formed by conservative churches and members who left the Episcopal Church.

Six years after the Episcopal Church consecrated a gay bishop, setting off a firestorm of protests, delegates meeting in Bedford, Texas, this week officially constituted the new Anglican church with 700 congregations and 100,000 members.

"It's wonderful," said the Rev. Briane Turley, rector of Tulsa's Church of the Holy Spirit Anglican, which left the Episcopal Church several years ago over concerns that the church was drifting from its biblical foundation.

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Filed under: * Anglican - Episcopal • Anglican Church in North America (ACNA) • ACNA Inaugural Assembly June 2009

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Posted June 26, 2009 at 7:15 am [Printer Friendly] [Print w/ comments]



1. Cennydd wrote:

I differ with Father Turley when he refers to the ACNA as a “new denomination.”  We are nothing but an Anglicanism as it should be, instead of an Anglicanism as The Episcopal Church has made it.  We are North American Anglicanism reformed and realigned.

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