Anglican Convocation of the Good Shepherd

Now called the American Anglican Convocation (as a result of copyright disputes with another organization), formerly called the Anglican Diocese of The Good Shepherd and subsequently the Anglican Convocation of the Good Shepherd, is a small jurisdiction of conservative American Anglicans who are not in communion with the Episcopal Church in the United States or the Anglican Communion. Sometimes identified as Continuing Anglican, the convocation tends to lean in a broad church or low church direction both in liturgy and theology, however there are some more high church clergy among their ranks. Currently the primate of the convocation is the Rt. Rev'd Robert W. Baker and the Rt. Rev'd Dwight Irons serves the convocation as its chancellor.

As of April 2015 the convocation claims to have 14 ACTIVE parishes and missions according to the chancellor, Bishop Dwight Irons, with new congregations in the process of formation. Like many other Continuing Anglican churches, the convocation adheres to the use of the 1928 American Book of Common Prayer and to the Thirty-nine Articles.

As with most continuing organizations the convocation is small and spread thinly across the United States. Most of its missions and parishes meet in borrowed or rented spaces and some meet in private homes.

While the convocation does not have any formal relationships with other continuing churches its leaders have congenial personal friendships and agreements with the leaders of other jurisdictions, most notably the Free Church of England.

The convocation does not recognize the validity of the ordination of women as deacons, presbyters, or bishops, however consideration is being made for the commissioning of women to the office of deaconess.

The convocation does not allow the ordination of openly homosexual men to any rank of ordained ministry and does not permit the blessings of same-[...] unions or marriages.