In these uncertain times - amidst changing values, moral decline, spiritual questioning and the advance of secular humanism - it's good to know that there is a Christian Church that still offers a timely message to the uncertainty of our time. This alternative is consistent with God's Holy Word. It focuses worship on Almighty God and not on man. It is an alternative which is rich in biblical preaching and consistent with the English tradition as expressed by our American Forefathers.

We are an Anglican Church because we continue to live and practice the fullness of the Faith in its unique English form which has been present in England since the early second century. We can trace the term “Anglican” back to the ancient Anglo-Saxon tribes of Europe. The tribal name was spelled “Engles” or “Angles,” as the tribes’ speech was the precursor to the English language. Their land became known as England and their Christians as Anglicans. Anglicans would eventually produce such pinnacles of the English language as the Book of Common Prayer and the Authorized Version of the Bible (KJV).

We are a Diocese that was formerly affiliated with the Anglican Province of America (APA). The Diocese voted unanimously in 2025 to leave the APA because it felt that the direction of Anglicanism in North America as exhibited by the current continuing Anglican churches and the Anglican Church in North America (ACNA) lacked a broad, orthodox vision that could recover the Old High Church Anglicanism as exhibited by the Church of England and the Episcopal Church during their days of orthodoxy.

In short, the Diocese sought to create nothing new, but return to the tradition abandoned by the contemporary, liberal Anglicanism found in the Episcopal Church and Anglican Church in North America (ACNA), and the monochrome Anglo-Catholic (if not Anglo-Papalist) expressions found in most of the continuing Anglican movement. Neither of these expressions reflect the received English Prayer Book tradition. We seek to recover the Anglican Way as expressed by Dearmer, Gore, Chase, Kemper, Breck, Temple, Ramsey, Hobart, Whipple, and so many others.

We are making disciples for Jesus Christ in the Anglican Way. We are committed to the Faith as once delivered to the Saints, transmitted through the Church of England in her orthodoxy to our forefathers, and serving as a foundation for effective ministry in the name of Christ to a world which is lost without him. 

The worship of the Diocese of the Central and Western States is grounded in the truth of the Bible as transmitted in the beauty of the Anglican tradition. It is done with reverence and dignity, according to the time-tested Biblical and traditional forms of historic Anglican liturgy, and offers her members a life of prayer rooted in Holy Scripture and the Sacraments.

The Book of Common Prayer as set forth by the Church of England in 1662, together with Ordinal attached to the same, are received as a standard for Anglican doctrine and discipline, and, with the Books which preceded it, as the standard for the Anglican tradition of worship. Other Books of Common Prayer that conform to this standard may be authorized by the Diocesan Bishop.

Biography

The Right Rev’d Robert Todd Giffin CStJ UE, is the Bishop Ordinary of the Diocese of the Central and Western States and Rector of Saint Chad's Anglican Church, San Antonio, Texas. He was consecrated a Bishop on 6 October 2012, at the Anglican Church of Saint Andrew the Evangelist in Merrillville, Indiana. On 25 May 2014, he was appointed by Bishop Maternus Kapinga as Ecumenical Canon of the Metropolitan Cathedral in Songea, Diocese of Ruvuma, Anglican Church of Tanzania (ACT). He is a cradle Anglican, having been baptized at Saint Dunstan's Episcopal Church, McLean, Virginia, on 10 April 1971. 

He was educated at Brebeuf Preparatory School in Indianapolis, Indiana, and Culver Summer Naval School in Culver, Indiana. He holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Butler University in Indianapolis, Indiana, and a Master of Divinity degree from Nashotah House Theological Seminary, Nashotah, Wisconsin. He served as a priest in the Episcopal Diocese of Springfield, Illinois, Diocese of Bolivia (Province of the Southern Cone), and the Church of Nigeria (Anglican Communion), where he was a church planter in Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, and Texas. He is married to the former Norma Jean Bustamante of San Antonio, Texas. Norma Jean is employed by Chiesi USA (a privately owned Italian pharmaceutical company) as an Executive Hospital Sales Representative. They are the parents of three children: Catherine Elizabeth, Maria Christina, and William Royall Giffin. They reside in San Antonio, Texas.

He was appointed by Indianapolis Mayor Stephen Goldsmith to serve on the Equal Opportunity Board of the City of Indianapolis, 1996-1998, and is a Board-Certified Chaplain (BCC) of the Spiritual Care Association (SCA, New York City, New York). He is an active member of the Saint John Volunteer Corps (SJVC) and a Commander (CStJ) in the U.S. Priory of The Most Venerable Order of the Hospital of Saint John of Jerusalem.

Bishop Giffin is a Freeman of the City of London, England, and a Liveryman of the Worshipful Company of Tobacco Pipe Makers and Tobacco Blenders, London. He is the Chaplain of the New York State Society of the Cincinnati, Chaplain-in-Chief of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States (MOLLUS), Deputy Chaplain of the Veteran Corps of Artillery State of New York, is a descendant member of the United Empire Loyalists' Association of Canada, and a life member of the Pilgrims of the United States (Pilgrims Society). 

He is first and foremost a Missionary Bishop and looks to advance and expand traditional Anglicanism across all of North America. 

Bishop Giffin may be contacted by phone at (210) 573-9860 or by email at bishop.giffin@gmail.com