Anglican Catholic Church

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Anglican Catholic Church
Coat of arms of the Anglican Catholic Church
Abbreviation	ACC
Classification	Anglo-Catholic
Orientation	Anglican
Polity	Episcopal
Metropolitan Archbishop	Mark Haverland
Associations	Intercommunion with Church of India (CIPBC). Anglican Province of Christ the King, United Episcopal Church of North America since 2007 and with the Diocese of the Holy Cross, Anglican Church in America, and the Anglican Province of America since the 2017 Anglican Joint Synod
Region	United States, Canada, Africa, Latin America, United Kingdom, Caribbean, Pakistan, Australia & New Zealand, Philippines
Origin	1977 St. Louis, Missouri, U.S.
Separated from	the Episcopal Church in the United States and the Anglican Church of Canada
Congregations	250+
Members	35,000
Official website	www.anglicancatholic.org

The Anglican Catholic Church (ACC), also known as the Anglican Catholic Church (Original Province), is a body of Christians in the continuing Anglican movement, which is separate from the Anglican Communion.^[1] This denomination is separate from the Anglican Catholic Church in Australia and the Anglican Catholic Church of Canada.

The continuing Anglican movement, including the Anglican Catholic Church, grew out of the 1977 Congress of St. Louis. The name "Anglican Catholic" is defined as "Anglican – simply means English" and "Catholic – in the ordinary sense means Universal" with the explanation that "The ACC affirms the Canon of St. Vincent of Lérins, who defined the Catholic Faith as, 'That which has been believed everywhere, always and by all' (i.e. universally within the undivided Christian Church)."^[2] Within historic Anglicanism the ACC sees itself as "rooted in a Catholic stream of faith and practice that embraces Henrician Catholicism, the theological method of Hooker and the Carolines, the piety and learning of Andrewes, the recovering liturgical practice of the Non-Jurors, the Oxford Movement, through the Ritualists, to modern Anglo-Catholicism."^[3]