The Anglican Church of Canada is the sole Canadian representative of the Anglican Communion. The official French name is l'Église Anglicane du Canada. The officially recognized initialism found on internal documents of the Anglican Church of Canada is ACC, although the name is sometimes abbreviated as ACoC in order to avoid confusion with the Anglican Consultative Council.
The ACC is the third largest church in Canada, consisting of 800,000 regis...
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The Anglican Church of Canada is the sole Canadian representative of the Anglican Communion. The official French name is l'Église Anglicane du Canada. The officially recognized initialism found on internal documents of the Anglican Church of Canada is ACC, although the name is sometimes abbreviated as ACoC in order to avoid confusion with the Anglican Consultative Council.
The ACC is the third largest church in Canada, consisting of 800,000 registered members worshipping in 29 dioceses and one grouping of parishes in the Central Interior of British Columbia. The 2001 Census counted 2,035,500 self-identified Anglicans or 6.9% of the total Canadian population. In the same census, Ontario alone recorded 985,110 self-identified Anglicans, some 48% of all Anglicans in Canada.
The current name was adopted in 1955 — until then it had been known as "The Church of England in the Dominion of Canada". The church acquired its current French-language name of "l'Église Anglicane du Canada" in 1989....
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