This web site is for the Anglican (Episcopal) Church around the world. Its purpose is to help us Anglicans and Episcopalians communicate with each other more easily, and to help everyone learn about our church.The serious growth of our Communion and the increased number of bishops make this a challenging project in our attempts to enable the ministry of global prayer and support.‘We are not a mission but a church with a mission.’Our goal at The International Free Protestant Episcopal University is to provide fellowship, support and training to those who feel a call to herald the message of Christ, crucified and risen from the dead. Our calling has been foreordained to use the Internet as a tool to reach many nations and help raise up ministries in those nations."We join in a holy brotherhood and with the help of God, will fight the evils of the world". Jesus said the kingdom of God is like a "net" cast into the sea, bringing forth a great catch of fish. Take advantage of the powerful tool that has taken us many years to prepare for you. Schism, however, lasts for centuries and is very difficult to reverse. Schism has never resolved a conflict. It is moreover utter disobedience of our Lord, who commands us without exception to 'love one another as he has loved us'."We must manage a new culture for the people - the culture of the non-violence - that gives the children hope".
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The Independent Anglican / Episcopal Church
To us the essence of Anglican Christianity is that, within the guidelines of scripture, tradition, and reason, we can agree to disagree but come to the same Table — even if on different sides. We cleave to the middle way, in which we each have whatever level of personal relationship with God we are comfortable with, relying on corporate worship to keep us centred within the boundaries of love. Church Ministers must remain free and unrestrained either in conscience, intelligence, or feelings, because they represent diversity in Unity.I'm trying to identify ideas that are true and valuable, and to separate them from misconceptions.The Christian faith isn't about you or me or that power-seeking bishop over there. It's about Christ.
Working with other faiths and traditions
Ecumenism is about Christians around the world working together locally, nationally and internationally as part of a global Christian movement. The International Free Protestant Episcopal Church(TIFPEC) is committed to developing and strengthening its ecumencial relations around the world and it does this through the work of its
St. Andrew's Ecumencial Church Foundation.®
The high point of the FPEC was when it obtained recognition by the British Government as a legally constiuted denomination. This fact was established in early 1917 when the Venerable E.A. Asquith, an archdeacon of the Church, was a test case under the Military Service Act of 1916. Clergymen could obtain an exemption from military service under the terms of this Act. The officiating magistrate gave his decision that the Ven. Mr. Asquith was a lawfully ordained minister of a legally constituted Episcopal Church, and therefore a man in Holy Orders within the meaning of the Act. His Worship arrived at this conclusion after investigating the origin of the Orders of the Church and the services used for ordinations and consecrations which are based on the 1662 Book of Common Prayer.
TO BE ANGLICAN/EPISCOPAL MEANS:
+ To be a part of Christ’s Church, without excluding or isolating yourself from other Christians.
+ To participate in the life of God’s people, with its happiness and sadness.
+ To belong to a community where all persons are respected for their individuality and can use their talents.
+ To demonstrate a theology based on the Holy Scriptures and on Tradition, coherent with intelligence and reason.
+ To be prepared to celebrate unity in diversity.
+ To take the Holy Scriptures seriously, without believing that every text must be understood literally.
+ To prefer freedom in Christ to sameness of opinion.
+ To feel devotion and reverence for the Sacraments, without trying to define each point concerning these mysteries.
+ To consider the ministry as the duty and privilege of all baptized people.
+ To be strong on morality (all that’s good and edifies) and to avoid moralism (that defines salvation as due to one’s conduct and not to the work of Christ).
+ To participate in the apostolic inheritance, faith in the Gospel of Christ.
+ To be part of an old and sacred history, which renews itself every day.
+ To believe that the Church belongs to all of us and everyone has the privilege of supporting it in accordance with the possibility of each one.
+ To participate in the administration and government of the Church under the established order.
+ To belong to an international, intercultural, and interracial family, that proclaims the Gospel worldwide, as commanded by Christ.
We are Universal, Ecclesiastical, Episcopal, Evangelical, Missionary.
This Church practices basic Christian traditions offering open Communion to all baptized Christians. Just as Christ sacrificed his life for us to reconcile the world to himself, those who claim to follow him must make sacrifices as they carry out the work of reconciliation. Acquired rights, and likewise privileges hitherto granted by the Bishop Primus to either physical or juridical persons, which are still in use and have not been revoked, remain intact, unless they are expressly revoked by the canons of this Code.
Retributive justice seems to prolong people’s suffering, but we tried to practice restorative justice; something that would bring people together. Through restorative justice, in the world, people began to understand each other’s vulnerability and acknowledge their humanity. The analogy is that when you are angry it’s bad for your health, but coming to terms with your anger can restore you to health, and you become the Christian, you want to be. An enemy is a friend waiting to be made; that’s the only hope for this conflict-ridden world.