About
The Anglican Joint Synods, while already sacramentally one church, is the intercommunion between the three largest Continuing Anglican jurisdictions in the United States; namely the Anglican Catholic Church, the Anglican Church in America, and the Anglican Province of America. Being joined by their common faith and order, as described in the St. Louis Affirmation, they represent a renewal of unity within the continuing movement as a whole.
A History of The Anglican Joint Synods
2017-Atlanta Concordat
Forty years after the St. Louis Congress, four of its descendants came together to both enter full communion and promise to work towards the merging of the jurisdictions present such that Our Lord’s prayer for unity may be answered. At this time the Diocese of the Holy Cross existed outside of any province, but was active in other ecumenical endeavors.
2021-The DHC Finds a Home
One of the four initial jurisdictions, the Diocese of the Holy Cross led by the Rt. Rev. Paul C. Hewett, got the ball rolling towards institutional merger by joining the Anglican Catholic Church as a member diocese bringing the fulfillment of the Atlanta Concordat’s promise ever closer.
2023-The First ACA/ACC Bishop
After the Rt. Rev. Rommie Stark’s passing, requiescat in pace, the ACC Diocese of the Midwest found itself without a diocesan bishop. Rather than electing a new ordinary, they consented to having the ACA Diocese of the Missouri Valley’s ordinary, the Rt. Rev. Patrick Fodor, as their new episcopal visitor. In effect, merging the two overlapping dioceses and bringing us yet another step closer to fulfilling the promise made in 2017.
“We affirm that the Church of our fathers, sustained by the most Holy Trinity, lives yet, and that we,
being moved by the Holy Spirit to walk only in that way, are determined to continue in the Catholic Faith,
Apostolic Order, Orthodox Worship and Evangelical Witness of the traditional Anglican Church, doing all
things necessary for the continuance of the same.”