The Orthodox Anglican Communion®
“The World Is Our Parish.”
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The Orthodox Anglican Communion®
“The World Is Our Parish.”
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The Orthodox Ang1ican Communion is a worldwide Catholic communion consisting of Churches and Dioceses of Churches of the Anglican tradition and heritage that are faithful to Biblical doctrine and who use the Book of Common Prayer of Thomas Cranmer, or a derivative thereof, that is faithful to Holy Scripture and the formularies of the Church of England, and that are recognized as faithful to these foundations by the Presiding Bishop of The Orthodox Anglican Church (in the United States) hereinafter referred to as the Metropolitan (Primate).
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The Purpose of The Orthodox Anglican Communion is to create a unity between religious bodies of the Anglican tradition for the purpose of perpetuating and promoting, with the help of God, the Biblical Faith and Anglican doctrine, discipline and worship of the Book of Common Prayer, with its emphasis on Faith in God through His Son, and the Sacraments.
The membership of The Orthodox Anglican Communion shall consist of Bishops or Vicars General of jurisdictions who subscribe to the above stated purpose and who promote the same in their Church or Diocese, who express the desire to belong to the Orthodox Anglican Communion, and who are recognized to be sound in their doctrine and steadfast in their purpose by the Primate.
Each and every member of the Communion shall be autonomous in matters of self-government, but should it be deemed by the Primate that any member has departed from the purpose for which the Communion was formed, recognition shall be withdrawn from him and his membership in the Communion shall end. While each bishop holds Ordinary jurisdiction in his diocese or church, the Primate exercises appellant jurisdiction for all dioceses and churches in the Communion.
The members of this Communion are in communion with one another and accept the validity of each other’s orders and sacraments, and remember one another in their prayers.
