20 January 2004
Founding of The Network of Anglican Communion Dioceses and Parishes. Bob Duncan, the Bishop of Pittsburgh, and eleven other TEC bishops gathered in Plano, Texas and formed the ACN.
October 2004
The Lambeth Commission released the Windsor Report 2004; it reaffirmed Lambeth 1.10 and the authority of Scripture as central to Anglican common life and called for moratorium on public rites of same-sex blessings and a moratorium on the election and consent of any bishop candidate living in a same-sex union.
May 2005
Archbishop Kolini asks the AMiA to seek a way to embrace all those priests and deacons, male and female, canonically resident in Rwanda, but living and ministering in the US and Canada. This means a move towards embracing women’s ordination in the AMiA.
September 2005
Church of Nigeria Synod voted to change its constitution, redefining the Anglican Communion around a common faith rather than the See of Canterbury.
November 2005
Hope and a Future Conference in Pittsburgh. 9 Anglican Archbishops attend, 47 diocesan bishops, 325 Episcopal priests.
The Anglican Church of Nigeria and the Reformed Episcopal Church announced a concordat, and several Global South primates called on the Episcopalians present to stand firm for biblical, orthodox Anglicanism – in the words of Archbishop Akinola: “Are you ECUSA or are you Network?”
2005
The Anglican Network in Canada is established together with the Anglican Federation as two constituent partners in Anglican Essentials Canada (AEC). They are initially under the jurisdiction of the Anglican Church of the Southern Cone.
January 2006
At the AMiA Winter Conference in Birmingham, AL the Anglican Coalition in Canada (ACiC) is announced.
18 June 2006
Katherine Jefferts Schori elected as the Presiding Bishop of TEC. Martyn Minns responds to her election: “She will bring into sharp relief the difference between being an Episcopalian and being an Anglican. It is not clear how she can do anything other than lead The Episcopal Church in walking apart from the rest of the Communion.”
24 June 2006
Christ Church Plano declares “…our intention to disassociate from ECUSA as soon as possible. We are thankful for the shepherd role of the Right Rev. James Stanton and his standing in the Anglican Communion, and we regard him as our apostolic leader.”
28 June 2006
The Episcopal Synod of the Church of Nigeria (Anglican Communion), meeting at All Saints Church, Wuse Abuja, elects The Rev. Canon Martyn Minns of Truro Parish in Virginia, USA as a Bishop in the Church of Nigeria for the missionary initiative of the Church of Nigeria called Convocation of Anglican Churches in North America (CANA).
16-18 August 2006
The Common Cause Roundtable which represents nine orthodox Anglican jurisdictions and organizations in North America met in Pittsburgh and recommended the formation of the Common Cause Federation (CCF). The Roundtable drafted and approved proposed articles to create the Common Cause Federation which would formalize the relationship of the partners and allow for other orthodox Anglican groups to apply for membership. (link)
December 2006
Eight Virginia parishes vote to depart TEC and affiliate with the Convocation of Anglicans in North America (CANA), an Anglican missionary jurisdiction in the US sponsored by the Church of Nigeria.
January 2007
At the AMiA Winter Conference in Jacksonville, FL, the AMiA rebrands itself as The Anglican Mission in the Americas (plural), with three “entities” under its umbrella: Anglican Coalition in Canada (ACiC), Anglican Mission in America (AMiA), Anglican Coalition in America (ACiA).
September 2007
Meeting of Common Cause Partnership bishops in which they announced their intention to bind themselves together constitutionally.
December 2007
Diocese of San Joaquin votes 173 to 22 to leave TEC for the Anglican Province of the Southern Cone.
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