Editing Continuing Anglican movement (section)

===Early fractures and realignment===
During the process of ratifying the new church's constitution, disputes developed that split its dioceses into two American churches and a separate Canadian church.<ref>{{Cite web |date=July 13, 2006 |title=From Denver to Dallas, and Beyond: A Retrospective |publisher=Orthodox Anglican Communion |url= http://www.orthodoxanglican.org/tcc/42-2/DenverToDallas.htm |access-date=August 24, 2022 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20060713033927/http://www.orthodoxanglican.org/tcc/42-2/DenverToDallas.htm |archive-date=July 13, 2006}}</ref> These were the [[Anglican Catholic Church]] led by [[James Orin Mote]], the Diocese of Christ the King (now the [[Anglican Province of Christ the King]]) led by [[Robert S. Morse]], and the [[Anglican Catholic Church of Canada]]. In 1981, [[Charles Doren]] and others left the Anglican Catholic Church to found the [[United Episcopal Church of North America]] in opposition to the alleged inhospitality of the other jurisdictions towards [[low church]]men.

In 1983, a statement of unity led to the coalescence of the Anglican Catholic Church.<ref>{{Cite web |publisher=Episcopal News Service |title=Press Release #83129 |url= https://episcopalarchives.org/cgi-bin/ENS/ENSpress_release.pl?pr_number=83129 |access-date=August 21, 2022 |website=EpiscopalArchives.org}}</ref> In 1984 a portion of the Anglican Episcopal Church of North America merged with the ACC to become the non-geographical Diocese of St. Paul.<ref>{{cite magazine |last=Armentrout |first=Don S. |title=Episcopal Splinter Groups: Schisms in the Episcopal Church, 1963-1985 |magazine=Historical Magazine of the Protestant Episcopal Church |date=1986 |volume=55 |issue=4 |pages=295–320 |jstor=42974143}}</ref>

Some Continuing Anglican bishops began discussing forming an international communion of Continuing Anglican churches in 1988,<ref>{{Cite news |date=November 25, 1988 |title=Anglicans Plan Communion |work=Farmington Daily Times |pages=8}}</ref> and met in 1989 to form the Traditional Anglican Communion.<ref>{{cite news |id={{ProQuest|277398129}} |last=Banks |first=Adelle |title=Bishops Trying New Approach to Keep Old Anglican Ways |newspaper=[[Orlando Sentinel]] |date=February 5, 1989 |page=B3 }}</ref> In 1991, multiple Anglican jurisdictions were invited to attend a conference in October in [[Deerfield Beach, Florida]], to create a united church. The [[United Episcopal Church of North America]] and the [[Anglican Province of Christ the King|Diocese of Christ the King]] declined to participate.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Episcopal traditionalists want to rebuild church with splinters |url=https://www.tampabay.com/archive/1991/08/03/episcopal-traditionalists-want-to-rebuild-church-with-splinters/ |access-date=2024-06-10 |website=Tampa Bay Times |language=en}}</ref> At that meeting, a number of parishes left the Anglican Catholic Church to merge with the American Episcopal Church and form the [[Anglican Church in America]] as a part of the [[Traditional Anglican Communion]]. Some of those later formed the [[Anglican Province of America]] after the resignation of Bishop [[Tony Clavier|Anthony F. M. Clavier]] as bishop ordinary of Diocese of the Eastern United States (ACA) in 1995.<ref>{{Cite news |date=2024-03-02 |title=Anglican Archbishop Resigns |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/national/1995/02/05/anglican-archbishop-resigns/05d058db-4d0d-4b8d-b3dc-f8a7af14e976/ |access-date=2024-06-10 |newspaper=Washington Post |language=en-US |issn=0190-8286}}</ref> In 1997, additional parishes left the Anglican Catholic Church and formed the [[Holy Catholic Church (Anglican Rite)]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=''Kleppinger v. Anglican Catholic Church Incorporated'' |url= https://caselaw.findlaw.com/nj-superior-court/1425644.html |access-date=August 21, 2022 |website=Caselaw.FindLaw.com |publisher=[[FindLaw]] ([[Thomson Reuters]])}}</ref>

In 1999, Bishop [[Richard Boyce (bishop)|Richard Boyce]] requested membership in the [[Anglican Province of America]] as the Diocese of the West. In 2003, the Anglican Rite Synod in the Americas (ARSA) under Bishops Larry Shaver (formerly of the American Episcopal Church<ref>{{Cite news |title=Anglican bishop looks forward to another Christmas Eve sermon in Merrillville |url= https://www.chicagotribune.com/suburbs/post-tribune/opinion/ct-ptb-davich-bishop-larry-shaver-christmas-eve-st-1224-story.html |access-date=September 1, 2022 |work=[[Chicago Tribune]] |date=December 21, 2018}}</ref> and the Anglican Jurisdiction of the Americas<ref>{{Cite web |date=March 13, 2009 |title=Christian Episcopal Orders |url= http://www.christianepiscopal.ca/orders.html |access-date=September 1, 2022 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20090313013409/http://www.christianepiscopal.ca/orders.html |archive-date=March 13, 2009}}</ref>) and Herbert M. Groce were received into the Anglican Province of America as the non-geographical Diocese of St. Augustine, later renamed the Diocese of Mid-America.<ref>{{Cite web |publisher=St. Michael the Archangel Anglican Church |date=September 22, 2021 |title=Presiding Bishop's Address – APA Synod 2021 |url= https://stmichaelsanglican.org/blog/presiding-bishops-address-apa-synod-2021/ |access-date=September 1, 2022}}</ref>

On March 5, 2003, Ash Wednesday, the [[Diocese of the Holy Cross]] seceded from the Anglican Province of Christ the King over questions surrounding James Provence, the successor of [[Robert S. Morse]].<ref>{{Cite book |last=Hewett |first=Paul C. |title=The Day-spring from on High |date=2020 |isbn=978-1647535513 |chapter=The First Paradigm – The Continuing Church Movement, 1976–2006: The Epic Journey |publisher=URLink Print & Media}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=July 13, 2006 |title=APCK Reviewing Annulment Policy |url= http://www.orthodoxanglican.org/tcc/42-2/focus.htm#6 |access-date=August 24, 2022 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20060713033633/http://www.orthodoxanglican.org/tcc/42-2/focus.htm#6 |archive-date=July 13, 2006}}</ref> On July 25, 2007, Bishop Rocco Florenza and most of the parishes in the Eastern Diocese of the Anglican Province of Christ the King withdrew, joining the Anglican Church in America.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Hart |first=Robert |date=July 25, 2007 |title=The Continuum: Now It's Official |url= https://anglicancontinuum.blogspot.com/2007/07/now-its-official.html |access-date=August 21, 2022 |website=The Continuum}}</ref>

The 2007/08 ''Directory of Traditional Anglican and Episcopal Parishes'', published by the Fellowship of Concerned Churchmen,<ref>{{cite web |title=Fellowship of Concerned Churchmen |url= http://www.anglicanchurches.net/ |access-date=March 5, 2015}}</ref> contained information on over 900 parishes affiliated with either the Continuing Anglican churches or the [[Anglican realignment]] movement.