Anglican Church in North America of Diocese of All Saints | |
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| Location | |
| Country | North America |
| Ecclesiastical province | Anglican Church in North America |
| Statistics | |
| Parishes | 27 (2024) [1] |
| Members | 1,109 (2024) [1] |
| Information | |
| Denomination | Anglican Church in North America |
| Rite | Anglican |
| Cathedral | Church of the Ascension, Charles Town, West Virginia |
| Current leadership | |
| Bishop ordinary | Darryl Fitzwater |
| Website | |
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The Diocese of All Saints (formerly lnown as The Missionary Diocese of All Saints / MDAS) is an affinity diocese of the Anglican Church in North America (ACNA), comprising parishes in 16 American states: Washington, Arizona, Texas, Michigan, Ohio, Kentucky, Florida, New York, Colorado, New Mexico, South Carolina, Virginia, West Virginia, Maine, Maryland, and Delaware, in addition to mission support around the world.
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The Diocese of All Saints was formed under Bishop William Ilgenfritz in June 2009 with the formation of the Anglican Church in North America. Bishop Ilgenfritz was the first Bishop consecrated of Forward in Faith North America in the ACNA on 22 August 2009. Soon thereafter the Missionary Society of St. John the Evangelist (MSJ) became canonically resident within All Saints. In 2011, Bishop Richard Lipka also joined, bringing with him several congregations. He became Suffragan Bishop for Bishop Ilgenfritz and was elected as Ordinary in 2021. The Diocese of All Saints was formally recognized a full diocese in the ACNA in 2013.
On April 6, 2016, the Convocation of the West, formerly the Diocese of the West of the Reformed Episcopal Church joined the diocese as a group. With this action, All Saints became a genuinely coast to coast affinity diocese. In 2021 the second Bishop Ordinary, Rt. Rev. Richard Lipka, was elected to serve All Saints in 2021, and his tenure focused on organizing the diocese. He officially retired at the enthronement of his successor, Bishop Darryl Fitzwater, on the Feast of Thomas Cranmer in 2025.
The diocese is Anglo-Catholic in faith and practice. Its institutional origins are in Forward in Faith North America (FIFNA), [2] (the North American Branch of the U.K. based Forward in Faith - FiF) and the DAS is the principal jurisdictional body representing FIFNA in ACNA. [3]
The DAS has a concordat of intercommunion with the Iglesia Anglicana Carismatica, of Venezuela.
The standing committee of the Reformed Episcopal Diocese of the West, in February 2016, voted unanimously to become a convocation within the Missionary Diocese of All Saints, due to their small dimension and inability to have the support of the Reformed Episcopal Church to remain as a diocese. The last synod of the Diocese of the West, on 5–6 April 2016, was followed by the organizing synod of the Convocation of the West, on 6–7 April 2016. Winfield Mott was elected at the occasion the first vicar general of the Convocation of the West, which he was until 31 August 2016. He was succeeded by Canon Michael Lenfied. [4] [5]
