What is the Holy Catholic Church Anglican Rite?
The Holy Catholic Church Anglican Rite is Catholic, because it accepts the doctrines of the ancient Church, which have been “believed everywhere, always, and by all.” We are, obviously, Catholic Christians, but not Roman Catholics. Christians in the Eastern and Western Rites of the Orthodox Church would claim to be Catholics. But, by virtue of that claim, they would not consider themselves to be Roman Catholics. The Holy Catholic Church Anglican Rite is not a Protestant church nor a Roman Catholic church, but a via media, true to the meaning of Anglicanism. Anglicanism: What it is and is not Anglican means “English.” In other words, members of the Holy Catholic Church Anglican Rite are Christians who have an English liturgical and theological heritage—a spiritual heritage and an ancestral connection to the Church in England. A unique balance between Evangelical and Catholic, between Word and Sacrament, is associated with the Anglican branch of Christianity. While the Episcopal Church o
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