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Nazarene Episcopal Ecclesia - Regina,SK
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Welcome to Nazarene Episcopal Ecclesia
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<b>P.O. Box 33079<br>Regina, SK S4T 7X2<br>
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James Martin was born on 4 April 1843 in Inkberrow, Worcester, England, the son of Samuel and Diana (nee White) Martin. He was baptised in the Inkberrow parish church on 30 April 1843 where the clerk made the error of recording his mother's Christian name as "Hannah" instead of "Diana" - the two names sound similiar in speech.<p>Apparently as a young man he travelled to the USA where he attended university. The following appeared in the Brixton Times, 13th February 1896: "The Rev. James Martin, of Brixton, who for twenty-five years has been widely known throughout England, Ireland, Wales and the United States of America under the title of Antipas, F.D., has received an official intimation from New York that he has been admitted by the Examiners of his University to the rank and status of Doctor of Divinity and Doctor of Laws, in recognition of his erudition as a Theological Author. This honour has been conferred during the jubilee year of Antipas, F.D." This jubilee year, referring back to the year 1871, probably is referring to his graduation from this un-named university.<p>The nom de plume, "Antipas, F.D.", came from an early Christian matryr, St. Antipas of Asia Minor. This saint was known as being a "Faithful Disciple/Defender" of the Word and was held in high regard for his life by the Protestant Reformers from the sixteenth century onward.<p>Martin was searching to be part of a true Bible based form of Christianity and was undoubtedly influenced by his studies. By 1873 he was back in Britain, living in Swansea, Wales. He came into contact with the newly formed <i>Nazarene Fellowship</i>, an 1873 split off from the Christadelphians. He joined the local Swansea congregation, becoming a "ringleader" of it as he referred to himself. The name the new group took, "Nazarene", was the way to point out they were trying to be like the original Christians. They too, have a special devotion to St. Antipas as the example of those who are faithful in opposition to all pretenders to Christianity; hence sometimes they were called "The Antipas". The Nazarene Fellowship is organised into independent congregations, officially known as <i>ecclesias</i>, therefore sometimes the Fellowship is known as the <i>Nazarene Ecclesia</i>.<p>James and his wife, Eliza Jane (nee Bormdy), lived in Mount Pleasant, Swansea until about 1878. (Mrs. Martin was born in the USA and became a naturalised British Subject before or at the time of her marriage.) On 27 October 1876 their oldest child, Antipas James Martin, was born there. At this time, James Martin's occupation was listed as "Lecturer". In about 1878 the Martin family moved to a large house at 59 Flaxman Road, Lambeth, Surrey, England where James continued on in his studies and writing and became a congregational leader amongst the London Nazarenes. In the 1881 Census his occupation is stated as being "Author". About 1887 Martin moved to another large house at 81 Flaxman Road, and there he established <i>The Nazarene Tabernacle</i>. Martin's income came from his lectures, by having boarders at his various residences, and by his secular business "J. Martin & Co., Printers, Engravers, And Publishers, 30 & 32 Ludgate Hill, E.C. London".<p>The Nazarene Fellowship did not have a formal clergy as most other denominations; each congregation picked its own bishops and deacons on a basis like that of an ordinary society. Martin's group wished to have more structure therefore, on 11 April 1888 (feast day of St. Antipas) Martin received consecration as a bishop in the historic Anglican Episcopal Succession at the hands of the Rt. Rev'd Alfred Spencer Richardson (1842 to 1907), the Primus of the Reformed Episcopal Church of the United Kingdom. Bishop Martin then began calling his church organisation by the name of <i>The Nazarene Episcopal Ecclesia</i>. The <i>Nazarene College</i> was founded in 1890, also at the same address, by Martin as his group's theological school.<p>Alfred Spencer Richardson was born in 1842 in Manchester, England. He was the minister at Great Malvern, Worcestershire for the Countess of Huntingdon's Connexion and for the Free Church of England in the 1870s when both bodies were basically one church. In 1877 he and several other clergy left the FCE and established a branch of the Reformed Episcopal Church in the United Kingdom; his congregation became known as "The Church of God Reformed Episcopal Church in Gt Malvern". On 22 June 1879 he was consecrated a bishop for the UK REC in St. Paul's Church, Philadelphia, USA by Bishops William Rufus Nicholson and Samuel Fallows. In 1885 Dr. Richardson became Presiding Bishop of the UK REC. Towards the end of that year, he and his family moved to London where they resided at 27 Belgrave Road. He was involved in setting up Christ Church, Carlton Hill and Christ Church, West Kensington.<p>Some church historians have criticised Primus Richardson for being involved in consecrating Dr. Martin, and later other bishops in 1890, but he was establishing a precedent later followed by his church's communion partner the <i>Reformed Episcopal Church of the United States</i>. On 5 December 1896 REC Bishop Peter Fayssoux Stevens (1830 to 1910) consecrated Edward Russell Middleton as bishop for the <i>Reformed Methodist Union Episcopal Church</i>. This church body is headquartered in Charleston, South Carolina, USA, and still maintains the historic episcopate.
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As late as 1885 Martin and his London congregation of Nazarenes followed the beliefs of the sect which can be read at <a href="http://www.thenazarenefellowship.co.uk">Nazarene Fellowship Beliefs</a>. At the time of his consecration as a bishop, Martin and his church moved towards a more "mainstream" view of Christian doctrine and belief especially as the Book of Common Prayer (REC version) was henceforth used as the standard of worship in the new Nazarene Episcopal Ecclesia. However, Dr. Martin continued in his teaching that the immortality of the soul was a pagan heresy and that the dead would sleep in their graves and be resurrected to either everlasting life or to everlasting death. The righteous would live and reign on Earth with Jesus Christ as King forever under God the Father and the unrepentant evil people would be destroyed totally by being cast into the Lake of Fire and exist no more. Heaven and Earth would be recreated as one with Jerusalem as the capital of the refurnished universe. Bishop Martin firmly believed that these beliefs were allowed by the Church of England in her doctrine and he stated that he knew Anglican clerics who privately believed the same.<p>Dr. Martin died on 29 October 1919 at the home of his youngest daughter, Mrs. Ruth C. Clark, 199 Maple Road, Penge, Kent. For some nine days before his death, he had been suffering with broncho-pneumonia.<p>The episcopal succession of the FPEC arrived early in the USA and Canada through a curious manner. On or before 19 February 1905 William Patterson Whitebrook (1871 to 1915) of Lambeth, England was consecrated by Bishop Andrew Charles Albert McLaglen. In 1908 Bishop Paulo Miraglia Gulotti (1852 to 1918) of the Italian National Episcopal Church travelled to England in order to conditionally consecrate +Whitebrook into the line of Archbishop Rene Joseph Vilatte as +Whitebrook had joined the English branch of +Vilatte's church. This occured on 27 December 1908 in +Whitebrook's domestic chapel of St. Thomas of Canterbury, Bishopsthorpe, Stone Hill, Headley Down, Hampshire and in turn Bishop Whitehead sub conditional consecrated +Gulotti bestowing the FPEC and Order of Corporate Reunion lines of succession on him. Back in North America Bishop Gulotti consecrated the following bishops - Carmel Henry Carfora (1911), Paul A. R. Markiewicz (16 Nov. 1913), Josef Zielonka (16 Nov. 1913), and assisted at the consecration of Frederick Ebenezer John Lloyd (29 Dec. 1915) - bringing an Anglican episcopal line into Vilatte's jurisdiction.<p><b>Apostolic Succession of Edwin Duane Follick:</b><br>Alfred Spencer Richardson (1842 to 1907) consecrated on 11 April 1888 in +Richardson's church in London, probably Christ Church, Carlton Hill<br>James Martin (1843 to 1919) who assisted in the consecration on 2 November 1897 at St. Stephen's Church, Shrewsburg Road, East Ham, London of<br>Andrew Charles Albert McLaglen (1851 to 1928) who consecrated on 4 June 1922 at St. Andrew's Mission Church, Retreat Place, London<br>Herbert James Monzani-Heard (1866 to 1947) who consecrated on 18 May 1939 at St. Andrew's Church, later renamed as St. Andrew's Collegiate Church in 1954, Stonebridge Road, Tottenham, London, N.15<br>William Hall (1890 to 1959) who consecrated on 6 April 1952 at St. Andrew's Church, later renamed as St. Andrew's Collegiate Church in 1954, Stonebridge Road, Tottenham, London, N.15<br>Charles Dennis Boltwood (1889 to 1985) who consecrated on 28 August 1968 at his home chapel at 1 Aldborough Road, St. Leonards-On-Sea, Sussex<br>Edwin Duane Follick (born 1935)
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