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The International Free Protestant Episcopal Church is an traditional Anglican church that follows the beliefs of the Church of England as
defined by the Reformers of the Protestant Reformation in England starting with Thomas Cranmer, martyr, Archbishop of Canterbury from 1532 to 1556 and compiler of our Book of Common Prayer. Unlike some other Anglican jurisdictions, we explicitly accept the reform teaching of the Thirty-nine Articles of Religion in the sense that they were originally written.The historic expression of worship
is preserved in the Book of Common Prayer. While changes have occured over the past years, no changes could be made which changed the 'substance of the faith.' Future revisions will also be subject to this provision. The Authorised King James Version of the Holy Bible is used in this Church.</font></p>
<p><font face="Arial"><b>History of The Free Protestant Episcopal Church</b>
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<p><font face="Arial">This church was established in England on 2 November 1897 by a union of several small British episcopates that had been established in the 1870s in reaction to the rising Anglo-Catholicism of the mother Church of England. Protected by 4th Baron and 61st Archbishop William Conyngham Plunket of Dublin and sustained by The Archbishop of Canterbury Dr.Edward White Benson.(1883-96)<a href="http://netministries.org/see/churches/ch14541"> The Most Rev'd Leon Checkemian</a> (1848 to 1920), an Armenian Catholic Church
bishop who had moved to Britain and became an protestant Anglican, served as the first primus (primate) of the new Church.The political element was a hindrance for CHECKEMIAN to return to Armenia,and in 1895 the work of all Churches was thron into confusion by the wellknown Armenian massacre. The Most Rev'd Charles Dennis Boltwood (1889 to 1985), the eighth primus (1959 to 1979), brought the
Church to North America in 1958 when on a tour of the United States and Canada he consecrated bishops for both countries.The Most Rev'd Charles K.S. Moffat (1907 to 1989) was consecrated on 24 August 1958 by Rt.Rev'd C.D. Boltwood as the Metropolitan Archbishop of Canada. After his death in November of 1989, Dr.Moffat was succeeded as the Canadian head of the Church by the Most Rev'd Benjamin Charles Eckardt (1902 to 1993), the Archbishop of Ontario, whose headquarters was in London, Ontario. Archbishop Eckardt had also been
consecrated by the Rt.Rev'd Boltwood in August of 1958. Due to a lack of episcopal oversight, the western congregations at Calgary in Alberta, Regina in Saskatchewan, and Brandon and Winnipeg in Manitoba disappeared and the Western Diocese was formally dissolved on 15 March 1991. The Church then carried on in Canada in its remaining Ontario Archdiocese under Archbishop Eckardt. Archbishop
Eckardt died in January of 1993. At the time of his death the FPEC Archdiocese of Ontario had congregations in London, Toronto, Owen Sound, Windsor, and Holland Centre in the Civil Province of Ontario. Archbishop Rivette was consecrated in New York City on 19 October 1971 by Bishops Albert J. Fuge, Sr., assisted by Benjamin C. Eckardt, William C. Thompson, and Ernest P. Parish.
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<p><font face="Arial">In 1979 Primus Boltwood resigned his office and retired as Bishop Primus of the FPEC and as Archbishop of Great Britain at the age of ninety years. He transferred the office of Primus to the then Archbishop of the USA, the Most Rev'd Albert J. Fuge Sr. of New York City. The European and African bishops of the Free Protestant Episcopal Church strongly disagreed with
this as they did not view the office of Primus as Archbishop Boltwood's to give. This transfer was not canonical nor in accordance with our Ecclesiastical Constitution. In 1979 de facto and in 1980 de jure, they elected the Presiding Bishop of France and Germany,<a href="http://netministries.org/see/churches/ch15551">Dr. Horst-Karl
Block,Ph.D.</a> of Mönchengladbach, Germany, as the tenth Bishop Primus. After Archbishop Fuge's death in the 1980s, he was succeeded as Archbishop of the USA by the Rt. Rev'd Robert R. Rivette (Ret.) of San Antonio, Texas. During the 1980s and 1990s the FPEC disappeared in the USA with its bishops either dying or starting their own church or joining other Anglican /Independent Catholic bodies.
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<p><font face="Arial"><b>Apostolic Succession in The Free Protestant Episcopal Church</b> </font></p>
<p><font face="Arial">In 301 A.D.,ARMENIA was the first country to officially recognise Christianity - a key anniversary in the development of Christian history. 2001 sees The Free Protestant Episcopal Church, celebrating the 1700 years since Christianity was first established as a state religion. This Church holds valid Apostolic Succession derived from the Armenian Catholic Church, the
Syrian Orthodox Church, the Roman Catholic Church, and the Church of England (through the Reformed Episcopal Church of the United States of America). These lines were in the jurisdictions that united in 1897 to found The Free Protestant Episcopal Church.The Anglican Succession is as follows. The Most Rev'd and the Rt.Honble
Dr. John Moore, Archbishop of Canterbury consecrated in 1787 William White as the PECUSA bishop of Pennsylvania. He in turn consecrated in 1832 John Henry Hopkins the PECUSA bishop of Vermont. Bishop Hopkins consecrated in 1866 George David Cummins the PECUSA assistant bishop of Kentucky. In 1873 Bishop Cummins founded the Reformed Episcopal Church. The Succession follows from him thus: 1873, Charles Edward Cheney, REC USA; 1876, William Rufus Nicholson, REC USA; 1879, Alfred Spencer Richardson, REC USA. Bishop Richardson later moved to
Britain where he was involved in the work of the Free Church of England. On 4 May 1890 he assisted in the <i>sub conditione</i> consecration of Bishop Leon Checkemian. From Bishop Checkemian the Succession continues thus: 1897,Charles Isaac Stevens,was consecrated on 6 March 1879 by Richard William MORGAN, assisted by Frederick George LEE, John Thomas SECCOMBE and Thomas Wimberley MOOSMAN;1920, Andrew Charles Albert McLaglen, FPEC Britain; 1922, Herbert James
Monzani Heard, FPEC Britain; 1939, William Hall, FPEC Britain; 1952,Charles Dennis Boltwood, was also consecrated<i> sub conditione</i> on 6 July 1956 by Hugh George DE WILLMOTT-NEWMAN,FPEC Britain; 1958, Emmanuel Samuel Yekorogha, FPEC Liberia/Africa and 1971/72, Horst-Karl Friedrich Block, FPEC Liberia/Africa and parts
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<p><font face="Arial">This Church is wholly under the spiritual jurisdiction of the Bishop Primus and Canonical obedience is required. It has been a custom since our Church was founded for all Bishops to inform the Bishop Primus of all their diocesan activities on at least a monthly basis. This is required by our Ecclesiastical Constitution and Canons.</font></p>
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