The Rev. Mark Michael is editor-in-chief of The Living Church. An Episcopal priest, he has reported widely on global Anglicanism, and also writes about church history, liturgy, and pastoral ministry.
Darrell Critch’s new diocese is part of an Anglican church in communion with the See of Canterbury, unlike the ACNA. This will likely make his ministry the first of its kind at a time of deep division across the Communion.
Since 2018, 5,552 organizations have arbitrarily lost their legal status in the country, about 70 percent of the non-governmental organizations that then existed.
The Anglican Province of Central Africa confirmed its intention to divide into three autonomous national churches, and to allow dioceses to ordain women at a synod held this week in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe.
