{"id":13564,"date":"2009-06-27T01:46:31","date_gmt":"2009-06-27T01:46:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/church_times_north_american_anglicans_hold_inaugural_gathering\/"},"modified":"2009-06-27T01:46:31","modified_gmt":"2009-06-27T01:46:31","slug":"church_times_north_american_anglicans_hold_inaugural_gathering","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=13564","title":{"rendered":"Church Times: North American Anglicans hold inaugural gathering"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Of the 800 people present, 234 are delegates from the 28 groups that have broken away from the Episcopal Church of the United States and the Anglican Church of Canada. Bishop Duncan, deposed from the Episcopal Church in 2008 and now a bishop in the Province of the Southern Cone, was due to be installed as Archbishop of the would-be province on Wed\u00c2\u00adnes\u00c2\u00adday at St Vincent\u2019s Cathedral.<\/p>\n<p>The assembly has ratified its canons and constitutions, and pro\u00c2\u00adclaimed its support for the Anglican Covenant, which it would like individual dioceses to be able to adopt, rather than provinces. It has retained a declaration that says: \u201cWe are grieved by the current state of brokenness within the Anglican Communion, promoted by those who have embraced erroneous teaching and who have rejected a repeated call to repentance.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p>ACNA says it has 693 congrega\u00c2\u00adtions, 81,311 worshippers, and an average Sunday attendance of 69,197&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.churchtimes.co.uk\/content.asp?id=77228\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Of the 800 people present, 234 are delegates from the 28 groups that have broken away from the Episcopal Church of the United States and the Anglican Church of Canada. Bishop Duncan, deposed from the Episcopal Church in 2008 and<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=13564\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,623,63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-acna-inaugural-assembly-june-2009","category-anglican-church-in-north-america-acna"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13564","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13564"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13564\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}