Archbishop Steve Wood on ACNA’s Recent Struggles, And Where It’s Headed

julieroys ^ | October 24, 2024 | Kathryn Post

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Before he was elected as the third archbishop of the Anglican Church in North America, Steve Wood was one of the earliest COVID-19 patients in the United States, placed on a ventilator for 10 days in March 2020.

Two years earlier, as bishop of the Carolinas and rector of St. Andrew’s Church in Mount Pleasant, South Carolina, Wood watched as his church building was engulfed in a fire.

“I wouldn’t trade any of those experiences for where I am right now, because God has been so extraordinarily gracious to me through every one of them,” said Wood.

In adversity, he said, he’s learned to trust God’s faithfulness. And while he readily admits the denomination isn’t perfect, he sees the Anglican Church in North America, which formed in 2009 after splitting from the Episcopal Church and the Anglican Church of Canada, as another testament to the graciousness of God. During his term as archbishop, he hopes that message will be not only reinforced in the pews, but shared widely throughout the continent.

On the heels of denominational dustups over women’s ordination to the priesthood and accountability for the misconduct of clergy — in particular bishops — Wood is beginning his five-year term as archbishop focusing on transparency and compassion as the young denomination continues to mature.

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They have more conservative positions on social issues than the Episcopal Church. They sort of allow the ordination of women, but not women bishops. Many use the 1928 Prayer Book, which is close to the original version developed under Edward VI.

They are schismatics of schismatics. They are not under the Archbishop of Canterbury and King Charles.

Some of the churches lost their buildings when they switched. For example, Fall Church, for which the town in suburban Virginia is named, is from colonial times, when only 2 churches in Virginia were not Anglican. They had to give up that church and build a new one.

They have Anglo-Catholic, Reformed, and Evangelical branches, basically high church or low church, more Catholic or Protestant, as the Episcopal Church does.

There are about 8,000 Episcopal churches in the US and 1,000 Anglican churches. They have 2-1 Anglican to Episcopal in South Carolina. They have many churches in Canada. They also have 10 in Mexico. A couple of them are oriented toward English and Americans, but most are dissident or reformed Catholic. Those affiliated with the US Episcopal Church, but were unhappy with its policies.

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They should be headed here: https://ordinariate.net/

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I am an ACNA priest that serves in the Diocese of San Joaquin.

He’s my sincere hope that we completely do away with women’s ordination to any of the orders, either the priesthood or the diaconate.

I am currently in South Carolina at
a clergy conference and just finished hearing Father Calvin Robinson speak.

www.perseusconference.com