Peter D. Robinson

The United Episcopal Church of North America (UECNA) is an Anglican church that is part of the Continuing Anglican movement. It is not part of the Anglican Communion. The UECNA describes itself as "embracing the broad base of ceremonial practice inherent in the Historic Anglican Communion" though historically the UECNA has tended to be low or broad church in its ceremonial practice. The UECNA uses the 1928 Book of Common Prayer in the US and the 1962 edition of the Canadian Prayer Book in Canada. Use of the 1662 Book of Common Prayer is permitted, and some parishes have deferred to it over the 1928 edition. The changes in the mainline denominations that it and other continuing churches object to include the acceptance of lax policies on the authority of scripture, divorce, abortion, the ordination of women, and changes to the theology of the Book of Common Prayer. They also object to more recent innovations such as the ordination of openly homosexual clergy, but these were not at issue when they broke with the Episcopal Church.