Traditional Anglican Communion

The Traditional Anglican Communion (TAC) is an international community of currently 14 churches of Anglican tradition, which have separated from the Anglican community around the Archbishop of Canterbury . The community came into being after a congress of over 2000 Anglican bishops, priests and laypeople held in St. Louis in 1977 under the influence of Louis Falk . The community had a total of 400,000 members in 2006.

history

The TAC has broken away from the Anglican Church Fellowship because it did not want to support the course it has taken to adapt to the zeitgeist. In the foreground is the rejection of the ordination of women . In addition, there are questions of liturgical reform , the Christian attitude to homosexuality and the importance of church tradition .

In 2007 the bishops of the Traditional Anglican Church recognized the Catechism of the Catholic Church and asked the Pope to establish full ecclesial fellowship. The Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith responded in July 2008 that this issue was being seriously considered. With Anglicanorum coetibus on November 9, 2009 under Pope Benedict XVI . published a letter that allows Anglican groups to belong to the Roman Catholic Church as personal ordinariates. However, this handle was rejected at meetings of members of the Bishops' College of the Traditional Anglican Communion on February 28 and March 1, 2012, in Johannesburg, South Africa for the TAC. The TAC has had its own missionary organization , the International Anglican Fellowship, since 2012 .

management

The TAC is headed by a primate together with the college of bishops and the general synod (consisting of the college of bishops, the clergy and the lay house). The current head (primate) of the TAC is Archbishop Shane B. Janzen from Canada.

classification

Most of the members of the TAC are to be classified as Anglo-Catholic . In terms of their liturgy , the member churches are conservative (cf. Oxford Movement ). The altars are regularly geosted . The divine service is partly not held according to the Book of Common Prayer , but according to the Anglican Missal from 1921 , which reflects the liturgical use in England before the Reformation ( Sarum Usus ).

Member churches

Africa :

• Anglican Church in Southern Africa - Traditional Rite
• Church of Umzi Wase Tiyopia
• Continuing Anglican Church in Zambia
• The Missionary Christian Church of Kenya

America :

• Anglican Church in America
• Anglican Catholic Church of Canada
• Missionary Diocese of Central America
• Missionary Diocese of Puerto Rico

Asia :

• Anglican Church of India
• Orthodox Church of Pakistan
• Nippon Kirisuto Sei Ko Kai
• Church Missionary Society (CMS)

Australia :

• Anglican Catholic Church in Australia
• Church of Torres Strait

Europe :

• Traditional Anglican Church (England)
• Church of Ireland - Traditional Rite

Footnotes

1. ↑ Documents | Traditional Anglican Church. Retrieved May 5, 2020 (American English). 
2. ↑ The Messenger Journal, July 25, 2008
3. ↑ Message on kath.net from July 29, 2008
4. ↑ Anglicanorum coetibus on the establishment of personal ordinariates for Anglicans entering full communion with the Catholic Church (November 4, 2009) | BENEDICT XVI. Retrieved May 5, 2020 . 
5. ↑ Wayback Machine. April 12, 2012, accessed May 5, 2020 . 
6. ^ International Anglican Fellowship (IAF). Retrieved May 5, 2020 . 

Web links

• Traditional Anglican Communion homepage
• Major Anglican Group Prepares for Full Communion With Rome
• John Hepworth: Rome and the TAC ( Memento January 15, 2016 in the Internet Archive )

See also: Pastoral Commission