[5] Its doctrinal distinctives focus on Reformed theology, and its churchmanship tends to be low church with use of the 1662, 1928 or 2019 editions of the Book of Common Prayer.

[7] The Convocation of Anglicans in North America was launched by the Church of Nigeria as a missionary church body in the United States, with Martyn Minns as the first missionary bishop, elected in June 2006 and consecrated in Abuja, Nigeria, by Archbishop Peter Akinola in August 2006.

CANA East was started as a diocese-in-formation in 2012 and held its first Synod at one of its church plants, Christ Church Anglican on the Main Line in Wayne, Pennsylvania, on May 2–4, 2013 with New Zealand native Julian Dobbs as the first bishop.

[8] CANA East was unanimously accepted as a new ACNA diocese at the 5th Provincial Council, on 18 June 2013.

"[14] In the address, Dobbs denounced abortion (praising the ADLW-affiliated Sisters of St. Mary, which was sued by New York state for refusing to cover abortion in its health insurance plans), praised the United States as "a force that protected human freedoms and Christian liberties,"[5] and rejected progressive perspectives on gender identity (saying that “[a]ny confusion of the sexes is a distortion of God’s created order.”).