In December 2006 the ACT declared itself to be in "impaired communion" with The Episcopal Church (US) over the ordination of non-celibate gay people and the blessing of same-sex unions. The ACT is a member of the Global South and the Fellowship of Confessing Anglicans, and has been a part of the Anglican realignment. Archbishop Valentino Mokiwa attended GAFCON in Jerusalem, in June 2008, and supported the inception of the Anglican Church in North America, in June 2009. Archbishop Jacob Chimeledya, an evangelical and orthodox Anglican, was perceived by some to have moved the ACT more into the "reconciliation" ground, as is being promoted by Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby, moving away from GAFCON. The ACT was represented at GAFCON II in Nairobi, in 21–16 October 2013, by former Archbishop Donald Mtetemela and other bishops. The ACT House of Bishops meeting, held in Dodoma, on 12–13 April 2016, voted to rejoin the GAFCON movement and to authorize Jacob Chimeledya to attend GAFCON's Primates council in Nairobi the same month, which he did.