Of the 800 people present, 234 are delegates from the 28 groups that have broken away from the Episcopal Church of the United States and the Anglican Church of Canada. Bishop Duncan, deposed from the Episcopal Church in 2008 and now a bishop in the Province of the Southern Cone, was due to be installed as Archbishop of the would-be province on Wed­nes­day at St Vincent’s Cathedral.

The assembly has ratified its canons and constitutions, and pro­claimed its support for the Anglican Covenant, which it would like individual dioceses to be able to adopt, rather than provinces. It has retained a declaration that says: “We are grieved by the current state of brokenness within the Anglican Communion, promoted by those who have embraced erroneous teaching and who have rejected a repeated call to repentance.”

ACNA says it has 693 congrega­tions, 81,311 worshippers, and an average Sunday attendance of 69,197....

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1. Ken Peck wrote: ACNA says it has 693 congrega­tions, 81,311 worshippers, and an average Sunday attendance of 69,197…. I’m sort of puzzled by this “statistic”. Shouldn’t “worshippers” be something like “members”? That said, and assuming that “worshippers” means “members”, it would seem that the average congregation has 117 members and an average Sunday attendance of nearly 100. If I’m not mistaken, this is considerable more on both counts than TEC. It would also be interesting to know what the average age of the members is. From the assembly photos, I’d almost guess that it is also considerably less than the average TEC member age of 57. June 27, 9:39 am | [comment link]

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