[3] In Britain, a voluntary Anglican society was formed in 1844[4] to evangelize the indigenous peoples of Tierra del Fuego.

This later became the South American Mission Society (SAMS) and extended its activities to the Araucanian regions of Chile and the Chaco.

By contrast, Anglican/Episcopal congregations in Brazil and the more northern Spanish-speaking countries were effectively under the wing of the Episcopal Church of the USA.

For the next seven years, they were administered by an ad hoc council known by the acronym CASA (Consejo Anglicano de Sud América),[7] which also had Brazilian members.

In November 2016, at the provincial synod in Santiago, Chile, Bishop Gregory Venables, was re-elected primate of the Province of South America.

The Diocese of Uruguay, which has historically been more liberal than other parts of the province, made a formal request in 2011 to be allowed to admit women to the priesthood.

[13] See city, Cathedral of The Most Holy Trinity, Montevideo In July 2015 it was announced by the Anglican Communion secretariat that the Diocese of Peru was working towards emancipation from the Province of South America, with the intention of becoming an autonomous province of the Anglican Communion, consisting of four dioceses.

The split into the four new dioceses took place in the early part of 2018, and the new province was formally constituted on 4 November 2018 by Archbishop Justin Welby and Presiding Bishop Gregory Venables.

[16] Tito Zavala and Abelino Manuel Apeleo became diocesan bishops as planned, along with former archdeacons Samuel Morrison and Him Enrique Lago.

[17] In 2003, after the consecration of Gene Robinson, a partnered homosexual, as the Bishop of New Hampshire in the Episcopal Church in the United States of America, the Province of the Southern Cone severed its relationship with the Episcopal Church (the sole dissent in the diocesan synod was the vote of the Diocese of Uruguay, which voted[when?]

[18] The Anglican Communion Office does not recognize jurisdiction of the Southern Cone bishops over dioceses and ecclesiastical bodies located geographically outside Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Paraguay, Peru, and Uruguay.

[19] Notes References Milmine, Obispo Douglas (1993), La Comunion Anglicana en América Latina