continuing churches

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According to a friend of mine who is in an American Continuing Church,the Anglican Catholic Church, there are three,'Continuing Churches,' who are the result of the Discussions held several years ago that resulted in the Declaration of S.Louis. By this they understand these continuing Churches to be those who hold to ancient doctrines of the Church as put forward at the Congress of S.Louis and are in communion with each other. These three plus a more recent development stemming from later sesession from the Neo Anglicanism of the modern American Church form the,"Continuing Church, all the others are simply believed to be protestant sects.

Maybe, but it's primarily a procedural thing. These three came directly out of the Congress that created the Continuing Church movement, while all others split at a later time and so are not part of the "passing of the torch" of Anglicanism from TEC to the "Continuing" Anglican churches.

The more recent "secession from the Neo-Anglican...." churches (mainly ACNA) that you referred to are not considered to be Continuing churches, by the way, but are part of what is often called the "Anglican Realignment" because it aspires to join the Anglican Communion as a second American province.