When churches split from the Episcopal Church and the Anglican Church of Canada in 2009 to form the Anglican Church of North America, the denomination’s church leaders hoped for a fresh start. Though they had broken with their mainline Protestant church bodies because of their conservative views on LGBTQ+ clergy, same-sex marriage and women’s ordination, ACNA also aspired to be a more nimble, less hierarchical church, free of the infighting that came with too much oversight.
