Extra Provincial Anglican Church
As extraprovinzielle Anglican churches (Engl. Extra-provincial Anglican churches ) refers to a number of smaller Anglican church associations with halbautonomem status, within the Anglican Communion not have their own provincial (d. H. Landeskirche) form and thus not have its own primate feature, but the metropolitans of other ecclesiastical province, normally the Archbishop of Canterbury , are subordinate. Since, apart from the Church of Ceylon, all of these churches only consist of a single diocese , one also speaks of extra-provincial dioceses ( extra-provincial dioceses ).
Extra-provincial churches, of which the Metropolitan is the Archbishop of Canterbury, are the Anglican Church of Bermuda , the Church of Ceylon , the Parish of the Falkland Islands , the Lusitan Church of Portugal, and the Reformed Episcopal Church of Spain . There is also the Episcopal Church of Cuba , which presides over a metropolitan council consisting of the primates of the three other North American Anglican churches. In the past there were other extra-provincial churches, so today's Episcopal Church of the Middle East was created 1974-76 from the extra-provincial Archdiocese of Jerusalem, which had existed since 1957 .
The term “extra-provincial diocese” is also used with a different meaning to the diocese of Tasmania of the Anglican Church of Australia , since it does not belong to any of the ecclesiastical provinces on the Australian mainland. Occasionally the dioceses of Puerto Rico and Venezuela of the American Episcopal Church are also considered to be extra-provincial dioceses, even though they are organized in an ecclesiastical province
See also: List of Anglican Churches