Anglican Congress Fillers
Diocesan Press Service. September 1, 1962 [II-5]
About 1,000 delegates, representing most of the world-wide Anglican Communion's 340 dioceses, are expected to attend the 1963 Anglican Congress to be held in Toronto.
About one-quarter of the 43 dioceses in the Provinces of Canterbury and York were established before the Norman Conquest in 1066.
Bishops of the 18 Churches of the Anglican Communion meet, generally every 10 years, for Lambeth Conferences which are held at the London headquarters of the Archbishop of Canterbury.
There are nearly 8,000,000 Anglicans in Africa, members of five Churches which are self-governing branches of the Anglican Communion.
The Church of the Province of Uganda and Ruanda Urundi, set apart in April, 1961, is the youngest Church in the Anglican Communion.
The missionary dioceses of Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Haiti, Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands are members of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States.
The Archbishopric in Jerusalem links together the life of Anglican Churches in Jerusalem, Egypt and Libya, Iran, Jordan and the Sudan.
Most Rev. Howard H. Clark, Archbishop of Rupert's Land and Primate of all Canada, is honorary chairman of the 1963 Anglican Congress to be held in Toronto.
The Advisory Council on Missionary Strategy, a body of the Anglican Communion, assists in strengthening the common life and planning of the Communion's 18 Churches.