Church of England Breaks in Two, Loses 40 Million Members After Conservative Majority Announce Major Split
The unity of Church of England has been dealt a major blow to the denomination in a punishing reminder that theological treason has consequences, after a group representing nearly 40 million members—ten times the number of Anglicans in the UK—announced they are the real Anglican Communion and will no longer be in communion with their progressive counterpart, dividing the denomination in two while declaring “We cannot continue to have communion with those who advocate the revisionist agenda, which has abandoned the inerrant word of God as the final authority.”
Over the past two decades, the denomination has been liberalizing at a rapid rate, recently appointing Sarah Mullally, a pro-choice feminist as the new Archbishop of Canterbury and allowing the church to bless same-sex couples, with a major contingent pushing the church to deem homosexuality no longer sinful.
The Global Fellowship of Confessing Anglicans (Gafcon), which represents the conservative branch of the denomination, mainly in the developing world and Africa, has seen the writing on the wall and has been pushing back against the denomination, routinely castigating them for their abandonment of the scriptures and historic Anglican teaching.
Anglicans have four Instruments of Communion: the Archbishop of Canterbury, (someone first among equals) the Lambeth Conference (a meeting of bishops around the world that gathers once a decade), the Primates’ Meeting (a meeting of the bishops and archbishops of each of the church’s 41 provinces, with the last one held in 2020), and the Anglican Consultative Council, which includes everyone from bishops to deacons to laity and meets every three years.
Prior to their annoucement, Gafcon formed their own version of the Lambeth Conference in 2008, called the Jerusalem Conference, and issued the Jerusalem Declaration, a conservative statement that affirms historical Christian orthodoxy, including the view of marriage as between one man and one woman. They further formed their own Primates’ Council, held meetings, and recently released a statement that they “no longer recognize the Archbishop of Canterbury as an Instrument of Communion” or the “first among equals” of global Primates.
While this put them on the precipice a major church split, the real step to break communion was if, despite having their own alternatives, these Gafcon-affiliated provinces publicly announced they are no longer in communion with any Anglican provinces that refuse to affirm the Jerusalem Declaration, refuse to attend Lambeth, and refuse to participate in the Primates’ Meeting.
That day has come.
Yesterday, in a letter that must be read in its entirety, Gafcon promised just that, announcing they are NOT splitting off from the historic Anglican Church to form a new Anglican Communion, but rather that they ARE the true Anglican Communion and will be reordering themselves accordingly.
They also announced they will be replacing the Archbishop of Canterbury with their own appointed “first among equals,” declaring the current Archbishop, Sarah Mullally, an imposter and an illegitimate usurper.
To our dear Anglican brothers and sisters in Christ.
Grace and peace to you in the name of our risen Lord Jesus Christ, on the Commemoration of the martyrdom of Hugh Latimer and Nicholas Ridley.
The first Global Anglican Future Conference (GAFCON) gathered in 2008 in Jerusalem to prayerfully respond to the abandonment of the Scriptures by some of the most senior leaders of the Anglican Communion, and to seek their repentance.
In the absence of such repentance, we have been prayerfully advancing towards a future for faithful Anglicans, where the Bible is restored to the heart of the Communion.
Today, that future has arrived.
Our Gafcon Primates gathered this hour to fulfil our mandate to reform the Anglican Communion, as expressed in the Jerusalem Statement of 2008.
We resolved to reorder the Anglican Communion as follows:
1. We declare that the Anglican Communion will be reordered, with only one foundation of communion, namely the Holy Bible, “translated, read, preached, taught and obeyed in its plain and canonical sense, respectful of the church’s historic and consensual reading” (Jerusalem Declaration, Article II), which reflects Article VI of the 39 Articles of Religion.
2. We reject the so-called Instruments of Communion, namely the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Lambeth Conference, the Anglican Consultative Council (ACC), and the Primates Meeting, which have failed to uphold the doctrine and discipline of the Anglican Communion.
3. We cannot continue to have communion with those who advocate the revisionist agenda, which has abandoned the inerrant word of God as the final authority and overturned Resolution I.10, of the 1998 Lambeth Conference.
4. Therefore, Gafcon has re-ordered the Anglican Communion by restoring its original structure as a fellowship of autonomous provinces bound together by the Formularies of the Reformation, as reflected at the first Lambeth Conference in 1867, and we are now the Global Anglican Communion.
5. Provinces of the Global Anglican Communion shall not participate in meetings called by the Archbishop of Canterbury, including the ACC, and shall not make any monetary contribution to the ACC, nor receive any monetary contribution from the ACC or its networks.
6. Provinces, which have yet to do so, are encouraged to amend their constitution to remove any reference to being in communion with the See of Canterbury and the Church of England.
7. To be a member of the Global Anglican Communion, a province or a diocese must assent to the Jerusalem Declaration of 2008, the contemporary standard for Anglican identity.
8. We shall form a Council of Primates of all member provinces to elect a Chairman, as primus inter pares (‘first amongst equals’), to preside over the Council as it continues “to contend for the faith that was once for all delivered to the saints” (Jude 3).
As I declared in my statement two weeks ago,“the reset of our beloved Communion is now uniquely in the hands of Gafcon, and we are ready to take the lead.”
Today, Gafcon is leading the Global Anglican Communion.
As has been the case from the very beginning, we have not left the Anglican Communion; we are the Anglican Communion.
At our upcoming G26 Bishops Conference in Abuja, Nigeria from 3 to 6 March 2026, we will confer and celebrate the Global Anglican Communion.
Please pray that we will lead our Communion in prayerful submission to the Holy Spirit as we hear the voice of Jesus in his wondrous Scriptures, to the glory of God.
Yours in Christ,
The Most Revd Dr Laurent Mbanda
Chairman, Gafcon Primates’ Council
Archbishop and Primate of the Anglican Church of Rwanda
Thursday 16th October, 2025
Stand for something lest you end up standing for nothing. The body of Christ is worth standing for.
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Wow, that split is so encouraging and their perspective is different from other church splits…and more accurate. These Anglicans who broke away because they chose to hold to the teachings of the Bible are, indeed, the REAL Anglicans. Every church denomination that has split before them has let the demonic sector that had abandoned biblical authority remain as the main and they became the split. But here, those who kept the faith are declaring themselves the main and they are ridding themselves of the godless being removed. This is much more accurate. Getting rid of that ridiculous archbishop is admirable.
Now, when are Catholics going to follow and themselves remove the progressive godless Catholic Churches, vile priests, and that demonic fake pope?
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“We cannot continue to have communion with those who advocate the revisionist agenda, which has abandoned the inerrant word of God as the final authority.”
Nor should anyone claiming faith in Christ, or calling themselves Christian.
No one who abandons the inerrant word of God as the final authority for matters of faith and godliness is Christian, and we can have no fellowship with them until they repent.
Praise God for the decision of “gafcon” to stand for the Bible.
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No the King is anointed by God and Brits do not want a hard right head of state, even Trump isn’t deporting Jews and Indians
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No, a handful of Anglican provinces, led by Nigeria where same sex couples can be arrested, left the Anglican Communion. The vast majority remain in the Communion and are not anti prayers in services for same sex couples, which even the Pope now approves and not anti women clergy, especially after male sex abuse in the church. Jesus never opposed women priests and used Mary Magdalene to spread his word
Mullally is also anti euthanasia and while personally pro life accepts the UK’s 24 weeks abortion limit, which is less than some US states now have
Now if only the Southern Baptists would be courageous enough to do the same and reclaim the denomination.
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Members of an earlier version of GAFCON approached me over 50 years ago to join them in separating from the Episcopal Church USA over the issue of the publication of the 1979 Book of Common Prayer and later over the ordination of women to the Presbyterite. Validity, in their view, has more to do with gender than the Sacraments and ministry of the church.