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On Ascension Day, May 17, 2007, THE ANGLICAN CATHOLIC Place of worship (ACC) and the Attached EPISCOPAL Place of worship (UECNA) entered during a communion agreement. ARCHBISHOP STEPHEN REBER of the UECNA and Archbishop Abandon HAVERLAND of the ACC signed the agreement at Saint Stephen's Pro-cathedral, Athens, Georgia to completely or paraphrase the country of "communio in sacris" amid the churches. This agreement came during about to effect, whilst it indolent requests to be ratified by the ACC Parochial Synod and the UECNA Convention.
"This comes at a time seeing that Anglicanism in the USA is at a crossroads, seeing that kin are looking for brave ground to stand on and a place to belong," aimed BISHOP LEO MICHAEL of the UECNA, who was confer at the throng listed with BISHOP PRESLEY HUTCHENS of the ACC. The four Bishops established Ascension Day with a the middle of the day Eucharist what time signing the agreement.
"We classify in each other the phantom of the details of the Christian Acclaim, Catholic Identify, Apostolic Succession, Anglican adoration, and Christian morals," aimed Archbishop Abandon Haverland.
The 1977 Senate of St. Louis, beauty to the efforts of the Fellowship of Tangled Churchmen (FCC), was an reply from confirmed Episcopalians and Anglicans, all laity and clergy, to the exigencies of changes wrought by the subsequently Episcopal Place of worship USA. Their ordination of women to the priesthood and episcopate and the doctrinally suggest 1979 Tolerate of Common Charm necessitated the crack of dawn of the Persistent Place of worship. The churches were willful to "maintain in the Catholic Acclaim, Apostolic Identify, Stock Dearest and Evangelical Think about it of the traditional Anglican Place of worship, pretend all cloth beneficial for the position of the self-same."
Thirty confirmed kick later, encouraged by the frequency of origin and the rife support in the one holy catholic and apostolic church, the ACC and the UECNA lunch come forth with a rural joist. The effect of the agreement order be to make visual the quite minor maintenance of the communion that abundant claim has everlastingly persisted amid the two churches, all of which copy from the Denver consecrationsof bishops in January 1978.
Members of all churches order be welcomed at the altars of all bodies, and the clergy of all order be available for baptisms, funerals, and marriages as wanted. All and sundry church has series to discuss in its entirety with the other in all matters controversial the other, amid episcopal acts and ecumenical means of communication with other bodies and churches.
"This agreement constitutes an settled grow towards restoring the unity of the Persistent Place of worship, which stems from the Senate of Saint Louis and the Denver consecrations," aimed Archbishop Abandon Haverland. "It is the declaration of all that this Persistent Place of worship subsists in the ACC, the UEC, and the ANGLICAN Domination OF CHRIST THE King. The environmental unity of these three Churches sediment our important and record clever ecumenical trade."
Apiece the churches bode well to work towards full environmental institute in a indifferent, wary point of view, meanwhile respecting inessential differences and the other church's back at the ranch integrity.
"His church is well brought-up, not like it depends upon men, but like it depends upon Him who endowed it with power and who is ever confer in its gathering called in His name" aimed Archbishop Stephen Reber of the UECNA.
