Christ Church is an

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Plano, Texas Plano ( ; Spanish language, Spanish for "flat surface" /'plano/) is a city in the U.S. state of Texas, where it is the largest city in Collin County, Texas, Collin County. A small portion of Plano is located in Denton County, Texas, Denton Count ...

. It serves as the

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for the

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. Planted in 1985 in the

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, Christ Church, as part of the

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, later became a founding congregation of the ACNA.

History

The Rev. Canon David Roseberry planted Christ Church in his living room in 1985 when Plano was one of Dallas' more distant suburbs. The church grew alongside the surrounding suburbs and at one point was the largest parish in the Episcopal Church. In 2006, Christ Church purchased its property and disassociated from the Dallas diocese and was temporarily overseen by Bill Godfrey, the

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bishop of Peru. In 2007, Christ Church joined the Anglican Mission in America, which became a founding member of the Anglican Church in North America. Christ Church hosted the investiture of Archbishop Robert Duncan in 2009. Roseberry led the Anglican 1K church planting initiative on behalf of the province. Following the departure of AMIA from full membership in the ACNA in 2012, Christ Church joined the Diocese of Pittsburgh and later became the pro-cathedral for the

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. In 2016, following Roseberry's retirement, the Rev. Canon

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joined Christ Church as rector after leading Sts. Peter and Paul in Ottawa. Christ Church hosted ACNA's quinquennial provincial assembly in 2019. In 2021, Christ Church was designated as a province-wide pro-cathedral.

References

External links

Christ Church Plano website
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