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Anglican Mainstream – Who We Are

Anglican Mainstream is a community within the Anglican Communion committed to promote, teach and maintain the Scriptural truths on which the Anglican Church was founded. These also guarantee its fellowship with Christians down history and throughout the world. Faithfulness to Scripture as God's Word is essential for sharing the love and purpose of God in Jesus Christ.

As a global coalition to promote the world-wide gospel ministry of the Anglican Church, Anglican Mainstream has links with other organisations and networks sharing the same objective. Only on the basis of and in obedience to the Word of God can Christian mission and service to a hurting and needy world flourish.

Anglican Mainstream UK is the network of organisations within the United Kingdom who are part of Anglican Mainstream's international coalition.

Those in the network of Anglican Mainstream are committed to the traditional biblical teaching on marriage, the family and human sexuality. Anglican Mainstream International is a coalition of:

Primatial Adviser

  • The Most Rev Drexel Gomez

Steering Committee of Anglican Mainstream International:

  • Canon David Anderson (American Anglican Council USA)
  • Bishop Wallace Benn (UK)
  • Rev Gavin Mitchell
  • Dr Philip Giddings (UK)
  • Bishop Charlie Masters (Anglican Network in Canada)
  • Rev David Short (Anglican Network in Canada)
  • Canon Dr Chris Sugden (Executive Secretary)

Anglican Mainstream Trustees

  • Dr Philip Giddings (Oxford)
  • Bishop Wallace Benn (Lewes)
  • Rev Canon David Banting (Chelmsford)
  • Rev Paul Perkin (Southwark)
  • Canon Dr Chris Sugden (Oxford)

Anglican Mainstream UK Steering Committee

  • Dr Philip Giddings (Convenor)
  • Rev Canon David Banting (Chelmsford)
  • Bishop Wallace Benn (Lewes. President of Church of England Evangelical Council)
  • Prebendary Richard Bewes OBE
  • Rev Paul Perkin (New Wine Network)
  • Rev George Curry (Chairman, Church Society)
  • Rev Alyson Davie
  • Rev Nick Wynne-Jones
  • The Ven Michael Lawson (Chairman, CEEC)
  • Canon Andy Lines (Crosslinks Mission Agency)
  • Rev David McCarthy (Scottish Anglican Network)
  • Canon Dr Chris Sugden (Executive Secretary)
  • Rev Dr Richard Turnbull
  • Mrs Sarah Finch
  • Rev Dr Will Strange (Evangelical Fellowship in the Church in Wales)
  • Rt Rev Michael Nazir-Ali

Website Consultant

  • Dr Lisa Severine Nolland

Contact us at [email protected]

Mailing Address:  21 High Street, Eynsham, OX29 4HE, UK

Phone: +44 (0)1865-883388

"If I profess with the loudest voice and clearest exposition every portion of the truth of God except precisely that little point which the world and the devil are at the moment attacking, I am not confessing Christ, however boldly I may be professing Christ. Where the battle rages, there the loyalty of the soldier is proved. To be steady on all fronts besides is mere flight and disgrace if he flinches at that point"

Martin Luther