In 2019, the dual jurisdiction arrangement with the ACNA came to an end, and CANA was reformed as CONNAM, with a special focus on serving Nigerian-American Anglican churches in North America.
CANA was formed in reaction to the decisions of the Episcopal Church USA on several issues, particularly related to international Anglican Communion resolutions at the Lambeth Conference 1998, the Windsor Report, Dromantine (Ireland), and at Dar es Salaam (Tanzania) — including the ordination of non-celibate homosexual clergy, which it opposes as deviant and sinful.
[6] CANA—and thus the Church of Nigeria—was also the canonical residence for ACNA's chaplains, as CANA Bishop Derek Jones became the first ordinary of the Jurisdiction of the Armed Forces and Chaplaincy (JAFC).
"We are not interested in territorial ambition; our main reason for going to America was to provide for those who were no longer finding it possible to worship in the Episcopal church," CON Primate Nicholas Okoh said in 2011.
[7] During the 2010s, other GAFCON member provinces that had provided canonical residence for North American Anglicans—including the Southern Cone and Uganda—transferred parishes back to sole ACNA jurisdiction, as did the Anglican Church of Rwanda with PEARUSA in 2016.
While we are disappointed by the way this election process has unfolded, this is not a situation that affects our local parishes and their commitment to making disciples and followers of Jesus.
"This agreement helps us honor the desire of our Nigerian brothers and sisters in North America to remain connected with the Church of Nigeria, while providing for future ministry partnership,” ACNA Primate Foley Beach said.
Ahead of the new bishops' scheduled consecration on 3 July 2019 in Lagos, a priest in CANA East filed formal heresy charges against Bishop-Elect Augustine Unuigbe, charging that Unuigbe had advocated "Word of Faith" doctrines and the prosperity gospel, both of which has been rejected by Anglican leaders at the 2018 Global Anglican Future Conference.
[19] After several ACNA clergy signed an open letter titled "Dear Gay Anglicans" that was seen to challenge the bishops' statement, Foley Beach commented that the reaction "has already had international ramifications,"[20] including from Nigeria.
Henry Ndukuba, who had succeeded Okoh as CON primate in 2020, said the ACNA bishops' statement was "tantamount to a subtle capitulation to recognize and promote same-sex relations among its members, exactly the same route of argument adopted by The Episcopal Church (TEC)....
[28] Ndukuba appointed the Diocese of the West's other suffragan, Celestine Ironna, to oversee congregations remaining with CONNAM on an interim basis.