Christianity: Details about 'Anglican Mission In America'
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The Anglican Mission in America (AMiA) is a Christian missionary organization active in the United States. Established in 2000, it aims to be an alternative jurisdiction to the Episcopal Church of the USA, the long-established denomination for Anglican Communion members in the United States. The AMiA was formed by conservative Episcopalians and Anglicans who see the Episcopal Church of the United Sates (ECUSA) as apostate. AMiA members criticize myriad actions, documents, policies and doctrine of the ECUSA as being in conflict with Holy Scripture. The most visible and public of these conflicts is ECUSA's acceptance and encouragement of homosexual members in both laity and clergy. The AMiA is technically a missionary organization to the USA, but has been accepted under the spiritual authority of the Anglican Church of Rwanda and the Anglican Church of South East Asia. The AMiA's priests and bishops are ordained by (and obtain, members believe, the benefits of Apostolic Succession through) the Archbishops of Rwanda and Southeast Asia. As the website of the AMiA states, The Anglican Mission provides a way for congregations and clergy to be fully Anglican—connected to the worldwide Anglican Communion through the leadership in Rwanda and South East Asia—while, at the same time, being free of the crises of faith, leadership and mission in the Episcopal Church USA.' Despite being a 'missionary organization' of Rwandan and Southeast Asian Anglicans, most clergy are former Episcopal priests who seek to promote conservative Anglicanism in the United States. The Rwandan and Southeast Asian provinces that accept AMiA churches under their jurisdictions generally send a handful of clergy and laypeople back and forth a few times a year.
is similar to the Continuing Anglican Movement. Another larger organization of this type -- often compared with the AMiA -- is the Anglican Communion Network (ACN). Major differences between the ACN and the AMiA:
Ordination of WomenAfter several years of consideration the AMiA decided against ordaining women to the priesthood. This decision, however, is not applied ex post facto -- at least two female priests who left the Episcopal Church for AMiA retain AMiA recognition of their ordination. Additionally, the AMiA fully recognizes the ordination of female deacons. Related
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