Birth of a province

http://www.anglican-mainstream.net/2009/01/16/birth-of-a-province/#more-6327

[Anglican Mainstream] 16 Jan 2009--Warren Tanghe offers the clearest and most perceptive assessment of the new American Province, the complex network of groups involved and its uncertain prospects of long-term stability and Catholicity

In 2000 the Assembly of Forward in Faith North America (FiFNA) adopted a statement of purpose which called for the creation of’an orthodox Province of the Anglican Communion in North America’.

From its inception in 1989, FiFNAs predecessor body, the Episcopal Synod of America (ESA), had sought to create a secure place within The Episcopal Church (TEC) for those who held to that church’s historic faith and order (which was none other than that of the Church Catholic) and to bear witness for that faith and order against efforts to change them. Over time, ESA recognized that nothing less than a structural solution was necessary, and therefore sought the creation of a tenth province within The Episcopal Church, as a non-geographic entity.