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The American Anglican Council is a group of "orthodox" Anglican parishes formed to combat homosexuality in the Episcopal Church in the United States of America. It was founded in reaction to the consecration of the openly gay bishop of New Hampshire, V. Gene Robinson. The neutrality of this article is disputed. ... The Cathedral Church of Saint Peter and Saint Paul in Washington DC is the National Cathedral of the Episcopal Church in the United States of America. ... The Right Reverend Vicki Gene Robinson (born May 29, 1947) is the ninth bishop of the diocese of New Hampshire in the Episcopal Church. ...
In this new alignment, the AAC claims, a handful of American dioceses and a number of Anglican provinces from Africa, Asia and South America, would break away from the existing church and constitute themselves as the new embodiment of Anglicanism in the world.
The American church has made it clear that its support of the gospel in the global south is not restricted to dioceses that agree with it on issues of homosexuality and women's ordination.
Anglicanism was born in the conflict of the Reformation.
That the AmericanAnglicanCouncil means to replace the Episcopal Church with itself (renamed perhaps) as the "true" Anglican expression of the catholic faith in the US, witness their petition to the Primates.
The AAC "merely" seeks a realignment of the member dioceses and churches of the Episcopal Church and a restructuring of the Anglican Communion.
The AmericanAnglicanCouncil and its leaders have for at least three years been funding a rapidly growing program of education and training of Anglicans around the world in their principles and tactics.
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