The Anglican Diocese of Christ Our Hope is a diocese of the

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. The diocese originated from the dissolution of the Missionary District of PEARUSA, which resulted in the creation of two new dioceses, both admitted at the ACNA at their General Council on 21 June 2016. It has 34 parishes in 11 American states, which are

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, and

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, and in

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The state with most parishes is

, with 11. The diocese's bishop ordinary is

Steve Breedlove Steven Allen Breedlove (born 1950) is an American prelate of the Anglican Church in North America. He was elected as the first Presider Bishop of PEARUSA, a missionary district that was formerly part of the Anglican Church of Rwanda, in 2012. ...

, since 2016, with Quigg Lawrence as the suffragan bishop and Alan J. Hawkins as the bishop coadjutor.

History

PEARUSA was created in 2012 as the missionary organization of the

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in the

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, a dual jurisdiction of his African mother church and the

. PEARUSA was divided in three regional networks, Mid-Atlantic and Northeast, Southwest and West. The Synod of the Province of the Anglican Church of Rwanda decided to fully transfer the jurisdiction of PEARUSA to the ACNA on 23 September 2015. This took place at ACNA's Provincial Council, held on 21 June 2016, with two dioceses being created, the Anglican Diocese of Christ Our Hope, who took over the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast Network, and the Anglican Diocese of the Rocky Mountains, who substituted the Southwest Network.Provincial Council 2016: Live Blog, ACNA Official Website
/ref> The diocese is dispersed across a large part of the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast regions of the

, and one of its main purposes is church planting.

References

External links

Official Website
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