 The ordination of women priests in the United States in 1976 led to the founding of the Continuing Anglican Movement in 1977.Its Affirmation of St. Louis declared the ordination of women (by the Episcopal Church in the USA and the Anglican Church of Canada) to be a matter of schism and to have caused a break with apostolic succession.The "Anglican Continuum", therefore, saw itself as perpetuating (i.e.