Global Fellowship of Confessing Anglicans

The Global Fellowship of Confessing Anglicans (branded as GAFCON or Gafcon after the Global Anglican Future Conference) is a communion of conservative Anglican churches aligned with the Confessing Movement that formed in 2008 in response to ongoing theological disputes in the worldwide Anglican Communion. As of 2025, GAFCON claims to represent upwards of 85% of the world's practising Anglicans. Peer-reviewed research from 2015 and 2016 indicates that the GAFCON-aligned provinces represent closer to 45% of practising Anglicans and just over 54% of members baptised in any of the provinces of the Anglican Communion.

Confessing Anglicans met in 2008 at the Global Anglican Future Conference, creating the Jerusalem Declaration and establishing the Fellowship of Confessing Anglicans (FCA), which was rebranded as GAFCON in 2017. At its founding, it consisted of the Anglican provinces of Rwanda, Nigeria, Uganda, Alexandria, Chile, Congo, Kenya, Myanmar, South Sudan, and the newly formed Anglican Church in Brazil, Reformed Evangelical Anglican Church of South Africa, and Anglican Church in North America.

On October 16, 2025, GAFCON broke ties with the Canterbury-based Anglican Communion. The chairman of GAFCON, Laurent Mbanda, the Primate of Rwanda, declared that GAFCON would officially be renamed the Global Anglican Communion, asserting that they have not left the Anglican Communion but instead are the Anglican Communion. In March 2026, GAFCON declined to elect a "rival" Primus inter pares to the Archbishop of Canterbury and, instead, reorganised their existing Primates' Council as the "Global Anglican Council."