How interesting! I’ve observed in some discussions with Anglicans in recent months that the Anglican Communion (at least those parts that still believe in God) seems to be moving toward an ecclesial understanding rather like that of Orthodoxy.
Actually a lot of the Anglicans who believe(d) in God aren’t Anglicans any more: myself, my current parish priest (the senior priest of the Antiochian Archdiocese—he got out early, seeing the writing on the wall when PECUSA wouldn’t depose Bishop Pike for heresy when he denied the Holy Trinity—the founding priest of our little mission and its mother parish, now the Provost of St. Vladimir’s seminary, . . . Indeed our Bishop, Bp. BASIL (Essy) of Wichita and Mid-America, once scandalized the Anglicans by thanking Nashotah House for sending him so many fine priests (at the time, I think about 2/3 of the priests of what has become the Diocese of Wichita and Mid-America were converts, and a majority of those from Anglicanism).
The Antiochian Archdiocese has even authorized a Divine Liturgy based on the BCP—the Divine Litgurgy of St. Tikhon, so named because it contains the corrections to the BCP Eucharistic order that the Holy Synod of Moscow proposed would be necessary if the BCP order were ever to be used in Orthodox worship. The question was posed at a time when reunion was the thought in mind, but the Holy Synod’s work turned out to be useful at a later time for a different purpose.