Anglican Episcopal Church

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The Anglican Episcopal Church (AEC) is a Continuing Anglican church consisting of parishes in California, Arizona, Florida, and Alabama served by one bishop and ten clergymen. The AEC was founded at St. George's Anglican Church in Ventura, California.^[1]

The Anglican Episcopal Church is an Evangelical, Low Church, Anglican jurisdiction that describes its faith as being based on the 1928 Book of Common Prayer and the King James Version of the Bible. ^[2] The Thirty-nine Articles of Religion are accepted as authoritative.

[edit] History

The Church's first bishop was the Rt. Rev. Reg Hammond, now deceased. Bishop Hammond was consecrated for the Anglican Episcopal Church by the Rt. Rev. Robert Godfrey, a former presiding bishop of the Anglican Orthodox Church. Following Bishop Hammond's death, the Church was reduced from three parishes to the one parish in Ventura which then voted to ask for the episcopal oversight of two bishops of the Anglican Diocese of the Good Shepherd: the Rt. Rev. Melvin Pickering and the Rt. Rev. George Connor, PhD.

In 2006, St. George's withdrew from its association with the Diocese of the Good Shepherd along with several other parishes. Delegates to an October, 2006 General Convention called for the purpose of re-establishing the Anglican Episcopal Church elected Bishop Conner to be its presiding bishop.

[edit] References

1. ^ History of St. George's Anglican Church, retrieved on September 14, 2006
2. ^ Churches not ‘in the Communion’, at anglicansonline.org, retrieved on September 14, 2006

[edit] External links

• Anglican Episcopal Church Homepage
• Descriptions of churches governed by bishops which are not members of the worldwide Anglican Communion, at anglicansonline.org