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What is the Anglican Church League?

Based in Sydney, Australia, the ACL is an association of evangelical Australian Anglican Christians who desire to maintain the reformed, protestant and evangelical character of the Anglican Church.

This character is based on Scripture and is expressed in the Book of Common Prayer and the Thirty Nine Articles of Religion.

The League has been active in the Anglican Church of Australia since 1909, mainly in the Diocese of Sydney, but also by encouraging evangelical Christians elsewhere.

Read the full list of Council members.

Join the Anglican Church League.

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From Archbishop Glenn Davies –

Archbishop Glenn Davies“The ACL’s role in Sydney is to keep the Diocese evangelical. That’s our role. Our role is to be ever vigilant… What one generation fights for, the next generation accepts and the third one forgets. The stronger the ACL is, the stronger the Diocese of Sydney is; the stronger the Diocese of Sydney is, the better the national Church will be.”

(The Most Rev. Dr. Glenn Davies was Archbishop of Sydney 2013-2021.
He spoke at the ACL’s Confessional Anglicanism Conference in March 2015.)

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From John C. Chapman –

“It has been interesting to me to see how the churches in the New Testament, who were founded by the apostles, so soon fell into such error that the apostles say that they have lost the gospel itself (see 2 Corinthians 11:4).

There is in the Pastoral epistles a strong call to guard and preserve the gospel. The ACL was founded and exists to do that. The way they seek to do it is to help us by finding people who are committed to this cause who will serve us on the committees and boards of the various agencies of this vast Diocese.

I have been a member of ACL for more than 30 years and commend its activities.”

(The late Canon John Chapman served as Director of the Department of Evangelism in Sydney Diocese.)

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Anglican Church League Council Vision, Mission and Values

Vision: 

To advance the reformed and evangelical character of the Anglican Church of Australia, particularly in the Diocese of Sydney.

Mission: 

The ACL is a church-political* network that engages participants in the Diocese’s synodical governance to preserve and advance its reformed and evangelical character by:

In short, the ACL “promotes the right people to the right places to do the right things.”

Values: 

To accomplish its vision and mission, the Anglican Church League is committed to these core values: 

  1. The defence and advancement of the reformed and evangelical principles of the Anglican Church based on Holy Scripture and as set out in the Book of Common Prayer and the Thirty-Nine Articles. 
  2. The primacy of the local church as the foundational sphere of Christian ministry, teaching and fellowship. 
  3. The importance of the service of lay men and women within Diocesan structures and governance. 
  4. The supremacy of the Synod in the governance of the Diocese, subject to the Scriptures, and the need for diocesan committees and organisations to be accountable to the Synod which established them. 

* Politics is a neutral term, describing the way people decide matters on which they need to reach agreement.

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About our website

Our website is a ministry to our members and others who are interested. We hope you find it a blessing. We post links to Anglican news, wider Christian news, and resources of various kinds.

Of course, posting a link does not necessarily imply endorsement by the ACL’s Council.