The Anglican Church in Central America (Spanish: Iglesia Anglicana de la Región Central de América) is a province of the Anglican Communion, covering five sees in Central America.

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Iglesia Anglicana de la Región Central de América
Classification	Protestant
Orientation	Anglican
Scripture	Holy Bible
Theology	Anglican doctrine
Polity	Episcopal
Primate	Julio Murray
Territory	Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Nicaragua, and Panama
Members	35,000

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Four of the five dioceses of the Iglesia Anglicana de la Región Central de America were founded by the Episcopal Church in the United States of America. Anglicanism was also introduced by the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel when the United Kingdom administered two colonies in Central America, British Honduras and Miskitia. In later years, immigrants brought the Anglican Church with them. This first period is often called the time of the chaplaincies.^[1]

Bishop William C. Frey was consecrated as the first missionary bishop of the Diocese of Guatemala in 1967.^[2]

By 2008, the Anglican Church in Central America had voted to consecrate women bishops although none had yet been consecrated as of 2008.^[3] By 2013, the Diocese of El Salvador offered ministries on behalf of and in support of LGBT members.^[4]

Julio Murray, Bishop of Panama, was elected as Primate in April 2018^[5] and took office with his installation on 11 August,^[6] succeeding Sturdie Downs, Bishop of Nicaragua. Downs was elected in late 2014 to serve a four-year term of office as primate (2015–2019); he succeeded Armando Guerra, Bishop of Guatemala (2011–2015), who in turn succeeded Martin Barahona, Bishop of El Salvador (2003–2011).

Today, there are over 35,000 Anglicans out of an estimated population of 30.1 million.

The polity of the Iglesia Anglicana de la Región Central de América is Episcopalian church governance, which is the same as other Anglican churches. The church maintains a system of geographical parishes organized into dioceses. There are 5 of these, each headed by a bishop:

• The Diocese of Costa Rica
• The Diocese of El Salvador
• The Diocese of Guatemala
• The Diocese of Nicaragua
• The Diocese of Panamá

Some countries of Central America are part of other Anglican churches:

• The Anglican Diocese of Belize is part of the Church in the Province of the West Indies
• The Episcopal Diocese of Honduras is part of Province 9 of the Episcopal Church in the United States of America

The Iglesia Anglicana de la Región Central de América embraces three orders of ministry: deacon, priest, and bishop. The Spanish-language version of the Episcopal Church (USA)'s 1979 Book of Common Prayer is used.

The center of the Iglesia Anglicana de la Región Central de América's teaching is the life and resurrection of Jesus Christ. The basic teachings of the church, or catechism, includes:

• Jesus Christ is fully human and fully God. He died and was resurrected from the dead.
• Jesus provides the way of eternal life for those who believe.
• The Old and New Testaments of the Bible were written by people "under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit". The Apocrypha are additional books that are used in Christian worship, but not for the formation of doctrine.
• The two great and necessary sacraments are Holy Baptism and Holy Eucharist
• Other sacramental rites are confirmation, ordination, marriage, reconciliation of a penitent, and unction.
• Belief in heaven, hell, and Jesus' return in glory.

• Cornelius Wilson, Bishop of Costa Rica