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[4] [5] What had provisionally been called the Anglican Church in North America (Episcopal) at the Congress of St. Louis, was renamed the Anglican Catholic Church at the constitutional assembly in Denver, 18–21 October 1978, [6] though its use in the Declaration and The Preamble of the Constitution was only descriptive and unofficial. [7]
At the founding of the Continuing Anglican movement in 1977 at the Congress of St. Louis, a proposed constitution for a new Anglican church in North America was put before the four existing dioceses for ratification. The two which did ratify the constitution later adopted the name Anglican Catholic Church.
The apostolic constitution was a response by the Holy See to requests coming from Continuing Anglican churches, particularly the Traditional Anglican Communion; and from Anglo-Catholic sections of the Anglican Communion, such as those involved with Forward in Faith, [32] and, within the Catholic Church, from the Anglican Use parishes which have ...
The Diocese of the United Kingdom is governed by the Constitution and Statutes of the Original Province of the Anglican Catholic Church, as well as its own diocesan canons. [ 17 ] The Bishop Ordinary is assisted by diocesan officers, elected at annual synods , as well as a Council of Advice.
The Pastoral Provision is a set of practices and norms in the Catholic Church in the United States, by which bishops are authorized to provide spiritual care for Catholics converting from the Anglican tradition, by establishing parishes for them and ordaining priests from among them.
They included Carl Reid, until then a bishop of the Anglican Catholic Church of Canada (ACCC). The same week in the Diocese of Victoria in British Columbia, another 23 Anglicans, including Peter Wilkinson, until then the Diocesan Bishop of the ACCC, were received into the Catholic church. These new arrivals immediately formed communities of the ...
In February 2010, the Anglican Catholic Church in Australia, along with Forward in Faith Australia, filed a petition to the Roman Catholic Church's Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith at the Vatican to join the Roman Catholic Church as a personal ordinariate under the apostolic constitution Anglicanorum Coetibus. [9]
In 1990, the then Traditional Anglican Communion was formed by the agreement of the Victoria Concordat. In 1991, members of the American Episcopal Church, the Anglican Catholic Church, and some other continuing churches came together to form the Anglican Church in America as a part of the Traditional Anglican Communion. [2]