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Anglican realignment diocese in Canada

The Anglican Network in Canada aims to "remain faithful to established Christian doctrine and Anglican practice" and represent orthodox Anglicanism in Canada. ANiC is a major Canadian constituent of the Anglican realignment movement. The irregular nature of ANiC makes it the geographically largest Anglican diocese in the world, covering the entire territory of Canada and a small pocket in the northeastern United States, in Massachusetts and Vermont. The Anglican Network in Canada is a diocese within the Anglican Church in North America.

The stated mission of the Anglican Network in Canada is to "Build Biblically faithful, Gospel sharing, Anglican Churches". The network desires to build new churches and expand existing churches that it believes will be fully Anglican, biblically faithful, evangelizing and discipling. The Anglican Network upholds what it believes to be the historical, biblical and traditional Christian beliefs found in the Anglican tradition pertaining to the Holy Trinity, sexuality, and authority of Christian scripture. ANiC also affirms the Chicago Lambeth Quadrilateral of 1886/1888 and the Jerusalem Declaration of GAFCON 2008. While women can be ordained as deacons or priests they cannot be ordained as bishops. The diocese does not bless same sex unions or marriages. They also oppose abortion and euthanasia.

Most churches within the Anglican Network in Canada now worship based on the liturgy and practices of the Book of Common Prayer 2019, developed by the Anglican Church in North America. Most parishes celebrate the Holy Communion (Eucharist) at least once a week, with many churches holding multiple services. Within ANiC there exists a wide diversity of worship and music styles. There are some churches in ANiC which identify as High Church and Anglo Catholic, while there are churches at the other end of the spectrum which identify as low church and evangelical and some which would be described as more charismatic. Music in their services can very from hyms and songs let by organ, piano, guitars, or full orchestras and choirs.

ANiC gained a degree of media attention, primarily in two respects. Firstly, the network upholds traditional Christian understandings of morality including what it believes are the orthodox Biblical ideas about family, marriage and discipleship. The network has been criticized by the mainline Anglican Church of Canada, the Canadian media, secular interest groups and other liberal, mainline denominations for taking a stand against same sex unions and same sex marriage.

As of 2022, the Anglican Network in Canada had 72 parishes. Notable parishes in the diocese include:
Church Image City Year founded Year completed Notes Church of Our Lord Victoria, British Columbia 1875 1975 Previously a member of the Reformed Episcopal Church St. Peter and St. Paul's Anglican Church Ottawa, Ontario 1885 pre 1885 Previously St. George's Anglican Church Anglican Church of the Good Samaritan St. John's, Newfoundland 2008 1959 St. John's Vancouver Vancouver, British Columbia 2011 N/A Separated from St. John's Shaughnessy

In October 2009, ANiC's leadership reacted to the Roman Catholic Church's proposed creation of personal ordinariates for disaffected traditionalist Anglicans by saying that this provision would probably not have a great impact on its laity and clergy, who are satisfied with the Anglican realignment movement. In June 2013, at least one priest from the ANIC denomination has accepted the offer to become a Catholic priest. Furthermore, Bishop Don Harvey stated that "Apart from being an intrusion at the very highest levels of one major church into the internal affairs of another, under the guise of being ecumenical, this invitation offers very little that is new."

ANiC is a member of the Evangelical Fellowship of Canada. ANiC has established ecumenical contacts with the Lutheran Church Canada. It is also has been involved in ecumenical dialogue with other Lutheran and Christian church bodies as part of the ACNA.