Diocese of the Great Lakes Suffragan is John M. Pafford of Midland, Michigan. Diocese of the Great Lakes The Diocese of the Great Lakes (DGL) is a Continuing Anglican church body in the United States and Canada. Its worship centers and clergy are currently located in the American Great Lakes states and the Canadian Province of Ontario. The DGL uses the 1928 American Book of Common Prayer or the 1962 Canadian book, accepts the Holy Scriptures as the inerrant Word of God, adheres to the Thirty-nine Articles of Religion, and ordains only men to the orders of deacon, priest, and bishop. The Thirty-nine Articles are
Anglican Diocese of the Great Lakes ordination and consecration as suffragan bishop of the CANA. The churches, now in number of 13 congregations, become the Anglican District of the Great Lakes of the CANA, in August 2008, with Roger Ames as their first bishop. The district was a founding member, as part of the CANA, of the Anglican Church in North America, in June 2009. In an extraordinary Constitutional Convention, held in April 2010, the district became the Anglican Diocese of the Great Lakes. On June 9 of the same year, the Provincial Assembly of the ACNA unanimously recognized the new diocese. Roger Ames was elected