Anglican Communion

The Anglican Communion is a world-wide organization of Anglican Churches. There is no single "Anglican Church" since each national or regional church has full autonomy; as the name suggests, rather, the Anglican Communion is an association of these churches in full communion with each other and particularly with the Church of England, which may be regarded as the "mother church" of the worldwide communion. For membership, see the box at the bottom of this page.

Recent controversies

Recent disagreements over biblical authority, as demonstrated by the issue of homosexual conduct, have strained the unity of the communion as well as its relationships with other Christian denominations; see Anglican views of homosexuality.

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