Convocation of Anglicans in North America

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The Convocation of Anglicans in North America (CANA) is a missionary body of the Church of Nigeria and a dual jurisdiction of the Anglican Church in North America. Founded in 2005, it is composed primarily of churches that have disaffiliated from the Episcopal Church in the United States of America (ECUSA). CANA was initially a missionary initiative of the Anglican Church of Nigeria for Nigerians living in the United States. It joined several other church bodies in the formation of the Anglican Church in North America in 2009. In 2012, it launched his first offshoot diocese in the United States, the Missionary Diocese of the Trinity, a dual jurisdiction of the Church of Nigeria and ACNA.

Leadership

In June 2006, Martyn Minns, then the rector of Truro Church in Fairfax, Virginia, was elected by the Anglican Church of Nigeria as the missionary bishop for CANA. Minns was consecrated in Abuja, Nigeria, in August 2006 and installed as missionary bishop in May 2007. He retired in January 2014 and was succeeded as missionary bishop by Julian Dobbs, who is also the diocesan bishop of the Missionary Diocese of CANA East.

As of March 2015, CANA has an additional six bishops serving in various sub-jurisdictions or other ministries:

• Roger Ames (now Bishop of the Anglican Diocese of the Great Lakes (ACNA))
• David Anderson (President of the American Anglican Council)
• David Bena (retired Suffragan Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Albany, now assisting in CANA East).
• Amos Fagbimiye (Bishop of the Missionary Diocese of the Trinity)
• Derek Jones (Bishop of the Armed Forces and Chaplaincy (ACNA))
• Felix Orji (Bishop of the Missionary Diocese of CANA West)

Core values

CANA is Christ-centered and outwardly focused, mission driven with an emphasis on evangelism and discipleship, church planting, and a passion for reaching and serving the least, the last and the lost.

It was formed primarily in reaction to what it viewed as the Episcopal Church's departure from orthodox Anglican faith, particularly the ordination of non-celibate gay clergy, which it opposes because it considers non-celibate homosexuality as deviant and sinful.

Present

CANA reports that it has grown since its founding in 2005. It reports currently 69 congregations, his presence in 21 states and in the District of Columbia, and being ethnically diverse. In 2012, CANA launched the Missionary Diocese of the Trinity, as a dual diocese of the ACNA and the Church of Nigeria. CANA originated three new dioceses: East, West and Armed Forces and Chaplaincy.

Ecumenical relations

In October 2009, CANA's leadership reacted to the Catholic Church's proposed creation of personal ordinariates for disaffected traditionalist Anglicans by saying that this provision would probably not have a great impact on the majority of its largely Low Church laity and clergy, who are satisfied with the Anglican realignment movement.

External links

• Convocation of Anglicans in North America
• Diocese of the East
• Diocese of the West

• ACNA Statistics
• CANA Convocation - FAQ Question 4
• CANA at the ACNA website
• Vatican move recognizes reality of Anglican divide