Henry VIII Founding the Anglican Church (Jesus, Kingdom, beliefs, choice)

[Terrywoodenpic]

Originally Posted by applewuud

But that's the ultimate logic behind Anglican authority, that the Church separated to remain true to the apostolic tradition brought there around 500 AD, not just because the king wanted an heir. The king wanting an heir was just the spark to gunpowder that was already there.

The Roman legions reported monastic Christians in Celtic Britain prior to the year 200
The Roman catholic Church was not established here until St Augustin's mission in 597.
It was not till after this that the two churches came together under the rule of the Pope.
The earliest Form of the Celtic church seems to have followed the Egyptian monastic rule.
Even today Celtic areas use the circled cross as used by the early Coptic's in Egypt.

The eventual leaving the Roman fold in Henry's time does not break the earlier apostolic succession,
which pre-dates most western churches, may be even of Rome.
To join the Anglican Church is to join an exceedingly ancient tradition.
This we feel has both preserved the best of the ancient Church but added the best of the modern understandings.

[Terrywoodenpic]

Holly... there are a number of churches in the USA that call them selves either Anglican or Episcopal who are not in communion with us...
You will find a list here...Anglican Churches not in the Communion
some of them are very strange indeed, But we have no copyright on those two words.