Anglican Network in Europe | |
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Abbreviation | ANiE |
Classification | Anglican |
Orientation | Primarily Reformed evangelical orientation |
Polity | Episcopal |
Presiding Bishop | The Rt. Rev. Andy Lines |
Associations | GAFCON |
Region | Europe |
Origin | 2020 |
Separated from | Church of England, Church in Wales, Scottish Episcopal Church |
Congregations | 74 (2024) |
Official website | https://www.anglicannetwork.org/ |
The Anglican Network in Europe (ANiE) is a Christian denomination in the Anglican tradition with churches in Europe (primarily in England). Formed as part of the worldwide Anglican realignment, it is a member jurisdiction of the Global Fellowship of Confessing Anglicans (GAFCON) and is under the primatial oversight of the chairman of the GAFCON Primates Council. ANiE runs in parallel with the Free Church of England (RECUK). GAFCON recognizes ANiE as a "proto-province"[1] operating separately from the Church of England, the Scottish Episcopal Church, the Church in Wales and other Anglican Communion jurisdictions in Great Britain and the European continent. ANiE is the body hierarchically above the preexisting Anglican Mission in England; the former is the equivalent of a province whilst the latter is a convocation, the equivalent of a diocese.