Our mission

The Anglican Church is a global, vibrant and Christ-centered expression of the Christian Church with a rich history that still shapes our  beliefs, lives and worship today. We hold much in common with other orthodox and evangelical Christian traditions and are committed to  humbly following Christ and the mission of his Church.

First and foremost, we are disciples of Jesus Christ, our Lord and Savior. We uphold the Bible as the inspired Word of God and the authority for our lives, and we profess our faith in the words of the three ancient creeds of the Christian Church: The Apostles' Creed, The Nicene Creed, and The Athanasian Creed.

The Anglican Diocese of the Great Lakes (ADGL) is a diocese in the Anglican Church of North America and was established in June 2010. It  has 54 congregations and two diocesan religious orders in Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan, New York,  Ohio, Pennsylvania and West Virginia, and one in the Canadian province  of Ontario. 

The Anglican Church in North America (ACNA) unites  132,000 Anglicans in 1,004 congregations across the United States,  Canada, and Mexico into a single Church. On April 16, 2009, it was  recognized as a province of the global Anglican Communion by the  Primates of the Global Fellowship of Confessing Anglicans. The Most Rev.  Dr. Foley Beach is the Archbishop of the Church.

The Anglican Communion is the worldwide fellowship of churches owing their origins to the Church of England; it is the third largest church in the world behind the Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox churches. It is a fellowship within the one, holy, catholic (universal) and apostolic church. It is organized into 41 provinces and five extra-provincial areas. Our province is the Anglican Church in North America. 

We are a part of the Global Anglican Future Conference, a global family of Anglicans standing  together to retain and restore the Bible to the heart of the Anglican  Communion. Its mission is to guard the unchanging, transforming Gospel  of Jesus Christ and to proclaim Him to the world. It is founded on the Bible, bound together by the Jerusalem Statement and Declaration of 2008, and led by a Primates Council, which represents the majority of the world’s Anglicans.