At the same time, revisions made in Roman Catholic liturgies caused many within the ECUSA leadership to champion an updating of the Episcopal Book of Common Prayer.

At a meeting held in Mobile, Alabama, it was agreed that a new body was needed in order to preserve traditional Anglicanism.

Robert William Stanley Mercer, CR, sometime Bishop of Matabeleland in the Province of Central Africa, the Rt.

Larry Lee Shaver was transferred to the Anglican Catholic Church (ACC), Diocese of the Midwest, by Letters Dimissory dated October 5, 2022.

Presiding Bishop Jones now serves as the Primate of the Anglican Province of America, and Metropolitan of the APA affiliated Churches in India, Ecuador, the Philippines, and Haiti.

In 2015, Bishop Jones addressed Forward in Faith North America at the International Catholic Congress of Anglicans.

The Traditional Anglican Communion, including its American branch, the ACA, has long sought unity with the Roman Catholic Church.

In October 2009, the Vatican responded with Anglicanorum Coetibus, which allows for the establishment of Anglican personal ordinariates under papal authority.

In July 2011, the APA's provincial synod voted unanimously to approve an intercommunion agreement with the ACA, anticipating a formal reunion of the two bodies at some time in the future.

[11] In January 2016, the APA reached a formal accord with the ACA, the Anglican Catholic Church, and the Diocese of the Holy Cross.

Paul C. Hewett (DHC) signed the following document, called the Atlanta Concordat: "We acknowledge each other to be orthodox and catholic Anglicans in virtue of our common adherence to the authorities accepted by and summarized in the Affirmation of St. Louis in the faith of the Holy Tradition of the undivided Catholic Church and of the seven Ecumenical Councils.

We recognize in each other in all essentials the same faith; the same sacraments; the same moral teaching; and the same worship; likewise, we recognize in each other the same Holy Orders of bishops, priests, and deacons in the same Apostolic Succession, insofar as we all share the episcopate conveyed to the Continuing Churches in Denver in January 1978 in response to the call of the Congress of Saint Louis; therefore, We welcome members of all of our Churches to Holy Communion and parochial life in any and all of the congregations of our Churches; and, We pledge to pursue full, institutional, and organic union with each other, in a manner that respects tender consciences, builds consensus and harmony, and fulfills increasingly our Lord’s will that His Church be united; and, We pledge also to seek unity with other Christians, including those who understand themselves to be Anglican, insofar as such unity is consistent with the essentials of Catholic faith, order, and moral teaching.

"[13] On February 16, 2022, it was announced that the APA has entered into an agreement of full sacramental communion (communio in sacris) with the Traditional Anglican Church.

[14] The Most Reverend Shane B. Janzen, Metropolitan of the Anglican Catholic Church of Canada, serves as Primate of the TAC.

The Indigenous Pastorale of the Anglican Province of America in Ecuador comprises thirty-two communities totaling about 20,000 people.

According to the Constitution of the Anglican Province of America (2022), the 1928 American Edition of the Book of Common Prayer is to be used.

In addition "other traditional Anglican liturgies" as may be authorized by the bishop ordinary, are "permitted for general use" in the worship of the church.

The Calendar and the Collects, Epistles, and Gospels contained in the Lesser Feasts and Fasts and Special Occasions (1963 Edition or earlier); 3.