Anglican Communion
Provinces Territorial Jurisdiction Membership ( in thousands of people )
Episcopal/Anglican Province of Alexandria Algeria , Djibouti , Egypt , Ethiopia , Eritrea , Libya , Somalia , Tunisia
Anglican Church in Aotearoa , New Zealand and Polynesia Aotearoa New Zealand , Cook Islands , Fiji , Samoa , Tonga 469
Anglican Church of Australia Australia 3,100
Church of Bangladesh Bangladesh 16
Anglican Episcopal Church of Brazil Brazil 120
Province of the Anglican Church of Burundi Burundi 800
Anglican Church of Canada Canada 359
Church of the Province of Central Africa Botswana , Malawi , Zambia , Zimbabwe 900
Anglican Church in Central America Costa Rica , El Salvador , Guatemala , Nicaragua , Panama 35
Anglican Church of Chile Chile NA
Province of the Anglican Church of the Congo Democratic Republic of the Congo , Republic of Congo 500
Church of England England , Guernsey , Isle of Man , Jersey , Europe 26,000
Hong Kong Sheng Kung Hui Hong Kong , Macau 29
Church of the Province of the Indian Ocean Madagascar , Mauritius , Seychelles 505
Church of Ireland Republic of Ireland , Northern Ireland 375
Nippon Sei Ko Kai Japan 32
Episcopal Church in Jerusalem and the Middle East Bahrain , Cyprus , Iran , Iraq , Israel , Jordan , Kuwait , Lebanon , Oman , Palestine , Qatar , Saudi Arabia , Syria , United Arab Emirates , Yemen 40
Anglican Church of Kenya Kenya 5,000
Anglican Church of Korea South Korea , North Korea 65
Anglican Church of Melanesia New Caledonia , Solomon Islands , Vanuatu 200
Organisation -- Provinces
The Anglican communion consists of forty-one autonomous provinces each with its own primate and governing structure . These provinces may take the form of national churches ( such as in Canada , Uganda , or Japan ) or a collection of nations ( such as the West Indies , Central Africa , or Southeast Asia ) .
The Anglican Communion is the third largest Christian communion. Founded in 1867 in London, England, the communion currently has 85 million members within the Church of England and other national and regional churches in full communion. The traditional origins of Anglican doctrines are summarised in the Thirty-nine Articles (1571). The Archbishop of Canterbury (currently Justin Welby) in England acts as a focus of unity, recognised as primus inter pares (first among equals), but does not exercise authority in Anglican provinces outside of the Church of England. The Anglican Communion was founded at the Lambeth Conference in 1867 in London, England, under the leadership of Charles Longley, Archbishop of Canterbury. The churches of the Anglican Communion consider themselves to be part of the one, holy, catholic and apostolic church, and to be both catholic and reformed. Although aligned with the Church of England, the communion has a multitude of beliefs, liturgies, and practices, including evangelical, liberal and Anglo-Catholic. Each retains their own legislative process and episcopal polity under the leadership of local primates. For some adherents, Anglicanism represents a non-papal Catholicism, for others a form of Protestantism though without guiding figure such as Luther, Knox, Calvin, Zwingli or Wesley, or for yet others a combination of the two. Most of its 85 million members live in the Anglosphere of former British territories. Full participation in the sacramental life of each church is available to all communicant members. Due to their historical link to England (Ecclesia Anglicana means English Church), some of the member churches are known as Anglican, such as the Anglican Church of Canada.