The North American Anglican Conference (NAAC) is a federation of Continuing Anglican church bodies in the United States and Canada. It was founded on August 15, 2008, by an assembly of bishops, clergy, and laity gathered in Romulus, Michigan, for the purpose of ratifying the association's proposed statement of principles. According to its constituting declaration, the North American Anglican Conference is not intended to be a first step towards a merger of member churches, but exists for the purposes of

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churches and clergy working together in support of Evangelism, for fellowship, and for the "transmission of Holy Orders, especially for the Episcopate." In November, 2009 four bishops of NAAC cooperated in the consecration of David Pressey as bishop suffragan of the Anglican Episcopal Church. The ceremony took place in

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, Detroit, famous for its annual memorial services for seamen lost on the Great Lakes and for being referred to in

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's ballad about the wreck of the

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. The members of the North American Anglican Conference are the

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, with parishes in California, Arizona, Nevada, Florida, and Alabama, and the Anglican

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which has parishes in Michigan. The bishop of the Anglican Diocese of Texas signed the NAAC statement of principles in 2010. The impetus behind the establishment of the NAAC, however, was not a perceived need for inter-Anglican cooperation in general. Rather, it was the founding churches' belief that many of the world's Anglican churches have deteriorated in recent years because of liberal trends. The NAAC points to the "abandonment of Holy Scripture", "non-compliance" with the rubrics and spirit of the

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(1928), and the redefining of the meaning of the

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of Religion by both liberal and some

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jurisdictions as a reason for "Biblically-based Anglican bodies" to stand and work together.

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