The new church, called the Anglican Church in North America, represents conservative 700 parishes and 100,000 parishioners. They share an orthodox Christian outlook that includes opposition to same-sex blessings and to the ordination of gay bishops.
The plan for the formation of a new jurisdiction, based on ideology rather than geography, was first reported in the National Post last month. At that time, leaders of the conservative movement in Canada and the United States said they would not need the blessing of Rowan Williams, the Archbishop of Canterbury and the spiritual head of global Anglicanism, because he had lost his moral authority.
Instead, the new church will look to the Global South for support, where the majority of Anglicans live and orthodoxy is the norm.