In these uncertain times - amidst changing values, moral decline, spiritual questioning and the advance of secular humanism - it's good to know that there is a Christian Church that still offers a timely message to the uncertainty of our time. This alternative is consistent with God's Holy Word. It focuses worship on Almighty God and not on man. It is an alternative which is rich in biblical preaching and consistent with the English tradition as expressed by our American Forefathers.

We are an Anglican Church because we continue to live and practice the fullness of the Faith in its unique English form which has been present in England since the early second century. We can trace the term “Anglican” back to the ancient Anglo-Saxon tribes of Europe. The tribal name was spelled “Engles” or “Angles,” as the tribes’ speech was the precursor to the English language. Their land became known as England and their Christians as Anglicans. Anglicans would eventually produce such pinnacles of the English language as the Book of Common Prayer and the Authorized Version of the Bible (KJV).

We are making disciples for Jesus Christ in the Anglican Way. We are committed to the Faith as once delivered to the Saints, transmitted through the Church of England in her orthodoxy to our forefathers, and serving as a foundation for effective ministry in the name of Christ to a world which is lost without him.

We are a member diocese of the Anglican Province of America, encompassing the States of Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Hawaii, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Michigan, Missouri, Minnesota, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, South Dakota, Texas, Utah, Washington, Wisconsin, and Wyoming.

The Anglican Province of America faithfully offers her members a life of prayer rooted in Holy Scripture and the Sacraments.

We worship according to the 1928 American Book of Common Prayer, the American Missal, and the Anglican Missal in the American edition. We use the traditional hymns and psalter of the English Church.

We celebrate the Eucharist Ad Orientem (towards the East) or as most people wrongly say "with the priest's back to the people". This ancient practice causes much bewilderment among modern Christians.

The point in facing east is to emphasize the essential nature of the liturgy: that of a procession out of time and into eternity in Heaven. We see and taste this procession in the course of the liturgy. The celebrant, standing in the person of Christ, leads the way, but we are all moving together, as a community and as the people of God, as part of the same procession that begins at the Collect for Purity, continues through the Offertory, and culminates with our reception of Holy Communion.

The practice offers a psychological and spiritual benefit. It permits you the worshipper to contemplate the purely sacramental character of the Eucharist and focus less on the personality of the celebrant. From the celebrant's point of view, it permits a more intense focus on the mystery of the Eucharist taking place rather than on the personalities of the worshippers.

Biography

The Right Rev’d Robert Todd Giffin is the Bishop Ordinary of the Diocese of the Central and Western States and Rector of Saint Chad's Anglican Church, San Antonio, Texas. He was consecrated a Bishop on 6 October 2012, at the Anglican Church of Saint Andrew the Evangelist in Merrillville, Indiana. On 25 May 2014, he was appointed by Bishop Maternus Kapinga as Ecumenical Canon of the Pro-Cathedral in Kwambe, Diocese of Ruvuma, Anglican Church of Tanzania (ACT). He is a cradle Anglican, having been baptized at Saint Dunstan's Episcopal Church, McLean, Virginia, on 10 April 1971. He was educated at Brebeuf Preparatory School in Indianapolis, Indiana, and Culver Summer Naval School in Culver, Indiana. He holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Butler University in Indianapolis, Indiana, and a Master of Divinity degree from Nashotah House Theological Seminary, Nashotah, Wisconsin. He is married to the former Norma Jean Bustamante of San Antonio, Texas. Norma Jean is employed by Chiesi USA (a privately owned Italian pharmaceutical company) as a Senior Hospital Sales Representative. They are the parents of three children: Catherine Elizabeth, Maria Christina, and William Royall Giffin. They reside in San Antonio, Texas. 

He was appointed by Indianapolis Mayor Stephen Goldsmith to serve on the Equal Opportunity Board of the City of Indianapolis, 1996-1998, and is a Board-Certified Chaplain (BCC) of the Spiritual Care Association (SCA, New York City, New York). He is a Commander (CStJ) of The Most Venerable Order of the Hospital of Saint John of Jerusalem where he is involved as an active member of the Saint John Volunteer Corps (SJVC). Additionally, he is engaged heavily in hospice and palliative care ministry.

Bishop Giffin is a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland (FSA Scot), and a life member of the Society of King Charles the Martyr (SKCM-USA), Royal Celtic Society (Edinburgh, Scotland), and the Royal Society of Saint George (London, England). He is an alumni member of Beta Theta Pi fraternity and a former Ambassador of the Beta Theta Pi Foundation.

Bishop Giffin may be contacted by phone at (210) 573-9860 or by email at bishop.giffin@gmail.com