What is Anglicanism?
Anglicans are the third largest group of Christians in the world, and earth’s largest Protestant denomination. We are a global community of over 85 million people on six continents comprising over 165 countries. The largest Anglican Province is Nigeria, and the Global South (Africa, parts of Asia and the Southern Cone) comprise 70% of the Anglican Community.
As the writer Thomas McKenzie put it, “In the mid-twentieth century, the American version of the Anglican Church was a sleepy country club. Today, it’s part of an unexpected and amazing worldwide movement of God.”
St. Michael’s is an example of this active, growing, and fruitful fellowship. Most of us come from different expressions of Christian faith and have found a spiritual home together. We are orthodox not Eastern, catholic not Roman, reformed not Protestant: a historical branch of the one Church of Jesus Christ. We love other expressions of the Christian tradition and pray for all churches "who call on the name of the Lord Jesus, their Lord and ours”.
St. Michael’s is a part of the Anglican Diocese of the Upper Midwest - a dynamic group of churches committed to planting a revival of Word and Sacrament infused by the power of the Holy Spirit across the Upper Midwest. Our parish and diocese are connected to the Anglican Church in North America (ACNA) under the authority of Archbishop Steve Wood. We are also united with GAFCON (Global Anglican Future Conference). The GAFCON movement 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. Gafcon works to guard and proclaim the unchanging, transforming Gospel through biblically faithful preaching and teaching which frees our churches to make disciples by clear and certain witness to Jesus Christ in all the world.
The structure of our service comes mostly from the Book of Common Prayer. Each Sunday, the Bible passages we read and prayers we say are also being echoed by millions of other Christians around the world. Learn more about our beliefs or our liturgy.