GAFCON Communiqué issued - ACNA recognized

http://www.gafcon.org/news/gafcon_communique_issued_-_ACNA_recognized/

[GAFCON] 18 Apr 2009--Careful consideration was given to the new Province in North America. We met with Bishop Bob Duncan and other key leaders. The emergent Province consists currently of approximately 100,000 Christians in Canada and the US who wish to continue in full membership of the Anglican Communion world-wide.

As a result of this process, we celebrate the organization and official formation of ACNA around the same principles that gave rise to the Global Anglican Future Conference (GAFCON) and now the Fellowship of Confessing Anglicans (FCA). Though many Provinces are in impaired or broken communion with TEC and the Anglican Church of Canada, our fellowship with faithful Anglicans in North America remains steadfast.

The FCA Primates’ Council recognizes the Anglican Church in North America as genuinely Anglican and recommends that Anglican Provinces affirm full communion with the ACNA.

On the other hand, the ACNA provisional constitution and draft canons do not recognize as genuinely Anglican other Anglicans in North America and other parts of the world because these Anglicans do not subscribe to the ACNA partisan view of the historic episcopate and apostolic succession. These Anglicans would include a number of leading figures in the history of the Church of England if they were alive today.