GLACIERS CALVING ICEBERGS
Ice and snow pile up and slide down a mountain side towards the sea. From time to time, very occasionally, the glacier claves an iceberg, which floats away. This is a natural process.
The same happens with church organizations. From time to time there are “splits” and break-away groups are formed. Here are some classic examples from the 500-year history of the Church of England.
These are only samples, the list is not comprehensive.
1534
ACT OF SUPREMACY — King Henry VIII nationalized the Roman church in England.
1559
Queen Elizabeth I ascended to the throne as “defender of the faith”.
1603
James I succeeded his aunt, affirming the “via media” and conjoining England and Scotland into a United Kingdom.
1738
Wesleyan revival — started as an Anglican movement.
1784
John Wesley started ordaining “Methodist Episcopal” ministers, after the American Revolution.
1776
American Revolution forced Anglicans in the USA to establish the Episcopal Church.
1844
Free Church of England was started by “low church clergy” to resist attempts to re-introduce Catholic practices.
1870
Church of England in South Africa declined the Anglo-Catholicism trend (sometimes called “high Anglican”).
1873
Reformed Episcopal Church started in New York City also to preserve protestant, evangelical, reformed, and confessional principles within the church. This was pushback to new trends.
1927
REC merged with Free Church of England.
1977
Congress of St Louis — attended by over 2000 Anglican triggered by the ordination of women → Affirmation of Continuing Anglicans (we did not leave the Anglican church; it left us).
1994
Anglican Essentials movement – Montreal Declaration.
2003
Federation of Independent Anglican Churches of North America established by Christ the King Graceland.
2005
Essentials Federation founded.
2005
ANiC — Anglican Network in Canada started with 2 parishes and rose to 77 parishes by the time it joined the ACNA in 2009.
2006
FACA — Federation of Anglican Churches in the Americas (part of Anglican Continuum).
2004
Common Cause Partnership — Anglicans uniting against liberal trends namely same-sex marriage.
2009
ACNA — major merger of dioceses and provinces including REC the Reformed Episcopal Church and ANiC which changed its name to ADC — Anglican Diocese of Canada. Plus a long list of others and also concordats with African Anglicans.
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2008
GAFCON — Global Fellowship of Confessing Anglicans at the Global Anglican Future Conference in Jerusalem.
2019
CANA — Convocation of Anglicans in North America.
