Anglican Church of South America
South American religious congregation
The Anglican Church of South America (Spanish: Iglesia Anglicana de Sudamérica) is the ecclesiastical province of the Anglican Communion that covers six dioceses in the countries of Argentina, Bolivia, Paraguay, Peru, and Uruguay.
Formed in 1981, the province has 35,000 members. The majority of its members (30,000) live in Argentina with a population in the rest of South America spread thinly. It is one of the smaller provinces in the Anglican Communion in terms of members, although one of the largest in geographical extent. In 2017, Growth and Decline in the Anglican Communion: 1980 to the Present, published by Routledge, collected research reporting there were 41,600 Anglicans in the Anglican Church of South America.
The province was known as "The Province of the Southern Cone of America" from its formation in 1981 until September 2014, when it formally changed its name to "The Anglican Church of South America".
The province also included Chile until the inception of the new Anglican Church of Chile as an autonomous province of the Anglican Communion on 4 November 2018.
History
During the 19th century, British immigrants to South America brought Anglicanism with them. In Britain, a voluntary Anglican society was formed in 1844 to evangelize the indigenous peoples of Tierra del Fuego. This later became the South American Mission Society (SAMS) and extended its activities to the Araucanian regions of Chile and the Chaco.
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