In a stunning move that has developed in reaction to the extreme liberal positions being adopted by the Church of England, including a plan to change the Bible to remove homosexuality from its defined sins, the organization has lost 40 million members.
Actually, the few million members in the United Kingdom essentially have been tossed out of the fellowship, the worldwide Anglican church.
“As has been the case from the very beginning, we have not left the Anglican Communion; we are the Anglican Communion,” charged a letter from a church chief in Rwanda.
It is the worldwide Anglicans who have announced a separation from the British component of the church.
A report at Protestia explained it was a “major blow” that developed as a “punishing reminder that theological treason has consequences.”
The “departing” membership is some 10 times the number of Anglicans who remain, in England.
“We cannot continue to have communion with those who advocate the revisionist agenda, which has abandoned the inerrant word of God as the final authority,” the worldwide Anglican Communion has announced.
The British portion of the organization for years has adopted changes to the Bible that allow homosexual leadership in the church, approval of wide range of other progressive issues like abortion, and more.
It recently was considering formally blessing same-sex unions and changing the Bible so that homosexuality no longer was a sin, but abruptly backed away.
Historic news for global Anglicanism today!
– The majority of Anglicans worldwide are, as of today, officially disaffiliated from the Church of England.
– GAFCON (Global Anglican Future Conference) has declared itself the Global Anglican Communion.
– The Global Anglican… pic.twitter.com/4q4t57BAAj— Larry Sanger (@lsanger) October 16, 2025
This is really incredible. Global Anglicans declare their independence from liberal Church of England:
“We have not left the Anglican Communion; we are the Anglican Communion.” pic.twitter.com/RB8T2yFY4Q
— Denny Burk (@DennyBurk) October 16, 2025
The Church of England decided this week to cover the interior of the oldest cathedral in England in graffiti in order to represent the voices of “marginalised communities.”
The Very Rev David Monteith, Dean of Canterbury, said: “There is a rawness which is magnified by the… pic.twitter.com/bQ6BYsNU2A
— Drew Pavlou (@DrewPavlou) October 10, 2025
Explained Protestia, “Over the past two decades, the denomination has been liberalizing at a rapid rate, recently appointing Sarah Mullally, a pro-choice feminist as the new Archbishop of Canterbury and allowing the church to bless same-sex couples, with a major contingent pushing the church to deem homosexuality no longer sinful.”
It is the Global Fellowship of Confessing Anglicans, the conservative branch, that already had been pushing back against the denomination’s “abandonment of the scriptures and historic Anglican teaching.”
The report explained the denomination uses four authorities: “the Archbishop of Canterbury, (someone first among equals) the Lambeth Conference (a meeting of bishops around the world that gathers once a decade), the Primates’ Meeting (a meeting of the bishops and archbishops of each of the church’s 41 provinces, with the last one held in 2020), and the Anglican Consultative Council, which includes everyone from bishops to deacons to laity and meets every three years.”
The conservatives already had replaced the Lambeth Conference with the Jerusalem Conference, and they had issued a “Declaration,” affirming Christian beliefs including the marriage as between one man and one woman.
“They further formed their own Primates’ Council, held meetings, and recently released a statement that they ‘no longer recognize the Archbishop of Canterbury as an Instrument of Communion’ or the ‘first among equals’ of global Primates,” the report said.
Now, the report explained, the conservatives have confirmed they are not splitting from the historic Anglican Church, but “rather that they ARE the true Anglican Communion and will be reordering themselves accordingly.”
The changes will include a replacement for the Archbishop of Canterbury, as that office now is occupied by Sarah Mullally, “an illegitimate usurper.”
The conservative organization said the actions are in response to “the abandonment of the Scriptures” by traditional leaders.
They first sought to persuade those leaders to repent, but they did not.
Their statement:
We resolved to reorder the Anglican Communion as follows:
1. We declare that the Anglican Communion will be reordered, with only one foundation of communion, namely the Holy Bible, “translated, read, preached, taught and obeyed in its plain and canonical sense, respectful of the church’s historic and consensual reading” (Jerusalem Declaration, Article II), which reflects Article VI of the 39 Articles of Religion.
2. We reject the so-called Instruments of Communion, namely the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Lambeth Conference, the Anglican Consultative Council (ACC), and the Primates Meeting, which have failed to uphold the doctrine and discipline of the Anglican Communion.
3. We cannot continue to have communion with those who advocate the revisionist agenda, which has abandoned the inerrant word of God as the final authority and overturned Resolution I.10, of the 1998 Lambeth Conference.
4. Therefore, Gafcon has re-ordered the Anglican Communion by restoring its original structure as a fellowship of autonomous provinces bound together by the Formularies of the Reformation, as reflected at the first Lambeth Conference in 1867, and we are now the Global Anglican Communion.
5. Provinces of the Global Anglican Communion shall not participate in meetings called by the Archbishop of Canterbury, including the ACC, and shall not make any monetary contribution to the ACC, nor receive any monetary contribution from the ACC or its networks.
6. Provinces, which have yet to do so, are encouraged to amend their constitution to remove any reference to being in communion with the See of Canterbury and the Church of England.
7. To be a member of the Global Anglican Communion, a province or a diocese must assent to the Jerusalem Declaration of 2008, the contemporary standard for Anglican identity.
8. We shall form a Council of Primates of all member provinces to elect a Chairman, as primus inter pares (‘first amongst equals’), to preside over the Council as it continues “to contend for the faith that was once for all delivered to the saints” (Jude 3).
