Anglican Diocese of Christ Our Hope

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Anglican Diocese of Christ Our Hope
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Location
Ecclesiastical province Anglican Church in North America
Statistics
Parishes37 (2023) [1]
Members5,301 (2023) [1]
Information
Rite Anglican
Current leadership
Bishop ordinary Alan J. Hawkins
Suffragan R. Quigg Lawrence, Paul Donison
Bishops emeritus Steve Breedlove
Website
Official Website

The Anglican Diocese of Christ Our Hope is a diocese of the Anglican Church in North America. The diocese originated from the dissolution of the Missionary District of PEARUSA, which resulted in the creation of two new dioceses, both admitted at the ACNA at their General Council on 21 June 2016. It has 37 parishes in 11 American states, which are Connecticut, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and West Virginia, and in Washington, D.C. The state with most parishes is North Carolina, with 11. The diocese's bishop ordinary is Alan J. Hawkins, since 2024, with Quigg Lawrence as the suffragan bishop.

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History

PEARUSA was created in 2012 as the missionary organization of the Province of the Anglican Church of Rwanda in the United States and Canada, a dual jurisdiction of his African mother church and the Anglican Church in North America. PEARUSA was divided in three regional networks, Mid-Atlantic and Northeast, Southwest and West. The Synod of the Province of the Anglican Church of Rwanda decided to fully transfer the jurisdiction of PEARUSA to the ACNA on 23 September 2015. This took place at ACNA's Provincial Council, held on 21 June 2016, with two dioceses being created, the Anglican Diocese of Christ Our Hope, who took over the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast Network, and the Anglican Diocese of the Rocky Mountains, who substituted the Southwest Network. [2]

The diocese is dispersed across a large part of the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast regions of the United States, and one of its main purposes is church planting.

In 2024, the Diocese of Christ Our Hope absorbed several congregations from the dissolving International Diocese, including St. Bartholomew's Anglican Church and also formed the Great Plains Missionary District, which was created with a goal of incubating a new ACNA diocese in Kansas, Nebraska, Oklahoma and northeast Texas. With this move, Christ Church, the provincial pro-cathedral in Plano, Texas, joined the diocese. [3] [4]

Parishes

Notable parishes in the Diocese of Christ Our Hope include:

ChurchImageCityYear foundedYear completedNotes
Church of the Holy Spirit Churchoftheholyspirit.jpg Roanoke, Virginia 19851998
Christ Church Cathedral Christ-church-plano-exterior.jpg Plano, Texas 1985Provincial pro-cathedral
Church of the Resurrection Church of the Resurrection, Washington, D.C., front and side view (northwest corner).jpg Washington, D.C. 20021887
St. Bartholomew's Anglican Church St. Bartholomew's Anglican Church - fmr Temple Beth El - Tonawanda, New York - 20221114.jpg Tonawanda, New York 20081961

References

  1. 1 2 "Congregational Reporting: 2023 in Review" (PDF). Anglican Church in North America. Retrieved 25 June 2024.
  2. ↑ Provincial Council 2016: Live Blog, ACNA Official Website
  3. ↑ "Transfers into the Diocese of Christ Our Hope in 2024: Missions, Congregations, Church Plants, and their Clergy" (PDF). Diocese of Christ Our Hope. Retrieved 7 January 2025.
  4. ↑ "The Rt. Rev. Paul Donison". Christ Church Plano. Retrieved 7 January 2025.
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