Traditional Anglican Church of America
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The Traditional Anglican Church of America, formerly called the Anglican Convocation of the Good Shepherd, is a small jurisdiction of conservative Anglicans who are not in communion with the Episcopal Church in the United States of America or the Anglican Communion. More aligned with the Continuing Anglican movement, TACA has congregations that are low, broad, and high church in liturgy and theology. As of April 2015, there were 14 active parishes and missions scattered across the United States, with most of them worshipping in rented facilities.
This church uses the 1928 American Book of Common Prayer but allows the use of any historic and authorized Book of Common Prayer which predates the 1928 American edition. The church also accepts the Affirmation of St. Louis and the Thirty-nine Articles of Religion.
The Primate of the Traditional Anglican Church of America is the Most Reverend Robert W. Baker. The Coadjutor is the Right Reverend Ebenezer Manuagwu. The Most Reverend Dwight Irons serves as Chancellor.
Within the jurisdiction, there are two Dioceses: the Diocese of the Good Shepherd Northwest and the Diocese of the Good Shepherd Southeast. The Diocese of the Good Shepherd Northwest is directed by the Primate, with the Right Reverend James Cloud as Suffragan Bishop. The Diocese of the Good Shepherd Southeast is under the direction of The Most Reverend Dwight David Irons. Its Suffragan Bishop is the Right Reverend Rick Aaron Reid. The Rev. Canon James Patterson is Canon to the Ordinary.
While the Traditional Anglican Church of America does not have a formal relationship with any other Anglican body, its leaders have developed personal friendships and agreements with the bishops of several other jurisdictions, most notably with those of the Free Church of England and the Independent Episcopal Church of Mexico.
This church does not ordain women or openly homosexual men to any rank of the ordained ministry or permit the blessings of same-sex unions of marriages. Consideration is being given to allowing the commissioning of women to the office of deaconess.
