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Denominations - Protestant

Short profiles of selected Christian denominations in the U.S.

Anglican Church of North America

Overview: The Anglican Church in North America was founded in 2009 by more traditional Anglicans from North America. It is still connected with the Anglican Communion, but it seeks to provide a more traditional expression of Anglicanism than the perceived more liberal Episcopal Church. For more information, go to: https://anglicanchurch.net/about/

  • Congregations: 873

  • Seminaries: Trinity School for Ministry, Reformed Episcopal Seminary, Nashotah House, Asbury Theological Seminary, Beeson Divinity, and Regent College

  • Publications: Apostle Magazine

  • Website: https://anglicanchurch.net/

  • Core Beliefs

    • We confess the canonical books of the Old and New Testaments to be the inspired Word of God, containing all things necessary for salvation, and to be the final authority and unchangeable standard for Christian faith and life.
    • We confess Baptism and the Supper of the Lord to be Sacraments ordained by Christ Himself in the Gospel, and thus to be ministered with unfailing use of His words of institution and of the elements ordained by Him.
    • We confess the godly historic Episcopate as an inherent part of the apostolic faith and practice, and therefore as integral to the fullness and unity of the Body of Christ.
    • We confess as proved by most certain warrants of Holy Scripture the historic faith of the undivided church as declared in the three Catholic Creeds: the Apostles’, the Nicene, and the Athanasian.
    • Concerning the seven Councils of the undivided Church, we affirm the teaching of the first four Councils and the Christological clarifications of the fifth, sixth and seventh Councils, in so far as they are agreeable to the Holy Scriptures.
    • We receive The Book of Common Prayer as set forth by the Church of England in 1662, together with the Ordinal attached to the same, as a standard for Anglican doctrine and discipline, and, with the Books which preceded it, as the standard for the Anglican tradition of worship.
    • We receive the Thirty-Nine Articles of Religion of 1571, taken in their literal and grammatical sense, as expressing the Anglican response to certain doctrinal issues controverted at that time, and as expressing the fundamental principles of authentic Anglican belief.

Local Churches:

St. Stephen Anglican Church, 8005 Vaughn Mill Rd , Louisville, KY 40228 USA

Grace Anglican Church, Highlands Latin School 10901 Shelbyville Rd., Louisville, KY 40243

Church Finder: https://anglicanchurch.net/find-a-congregation/