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The International Free Protestant Episcopal University
Chartered and retained by its original constitution as Episcopal University as from 1897. Dr Horst-Karl F. Block,PhD,AED, DD,LLD(LBR) was the first Rector-Bishop of the Theological Seminary TIFPE in Liberia 1965 - 1972.
We pray for the Episcopal University and College giving thanks for more than 100 years of studying and searching for truth in holiness and wisdom and praying that this search will continue.
History and Origin of the Seminary of the Free Protestant Episcopal Church of England.
Founded in 1890 by the Rt. Rev. James Martin,D.D.,LL.D., who introduced in England in 1873,
The Nazarene Ecclesia. He named his Seminary, The Nazarene College.
It was situated at this time at: Sydenham, London. S.E.26
Extract from the "Brixton Times," Feb. 13th, 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.."
The Ecumenical Church Foundation.
In 1897, the true Ecumenical Church Foundation was laid by the Establishment of The Free Protestant Episcopal Church, when Bishop James Martin, united with Archbishop Dr.Isaac Stevens of The Ancient British Church, and the Rt. Rev. Lord Leon Checkemian, of the Armenian Catholic Church ( Consecrated at the Cathedral of Malatia on April 23rd, 1878). In 1897 The Most Rev. Lord Leon Checkemian was Elected Archbishop of The F.P.E.C. and its Seat of Higher Learning founded, whilst The Nazarene College was its Seminary. In 1936, under the direction of the Rt.Rev. William Hall the Nazarene College was transfered to St. Andrew's Church, Stonebridge Road, Tottenham, N 15.)
in 1951, The Rt. Rev. William Hall, appointed the Rt.Rev.Dr Charles Dennis Boltwood, Rector of The Nazarene College, and from that time, the St. Andrew's Church, was re- registered at Somerset House, as St. Andrew's Collegiate Church. At the same time, the higher seat of Learning of the Free Protestant Episcopal Church was extended in name and work, and was re-constituted as The International Free Protestant Episcopal University, but retained its original constitution as from 1897.It then drew together its International Faculty of Scholars, most of them being Principals of their own University, College or Academy. Thus was established a Faculty drawn from the British Commonwealth, the United States, France, Germany, Italy and today we have Professors in Lebanon, who are outstanding Masters in Arabic Literature.
SEMINARY
A Seat of higher learning, such as the Seminary of The International Free Protestant Episcopal University, carries on an adult and further educational curriculum, from matriculation, or, as we now call it in England, General Certificate Educational level for such as those who desire to become advanced scholars. Thus a Seat of higher learning has no need to be listed, and also, being autonomous, is entirely free to conduct its Religious education as it deems fit and proper. We uphold the traditional educational standards, and confer our honors, which are valued by the Faculty, which consist of men and women of high educational status, and who, in many cases, are Principals or Professors of their own Colleges, or associated with University's and Academies. No conferment is made unless the Examiners are satisfied that each candidate fully merits and has met all requirements required of the Faculty. In some instances we honor those who can show by their academic status and by their lifelong work in the field of religious ministry or in the fields of the humanities, an honoris causa award.(Honorary Doctor of Divinity-DD) Honorary Doctor of Law-LLD)
The Free Protestant Episcopal Church and University was founded in England on 2 November 1897 by a union of several small British episcopates that had been established in the 1870's in reaction to the rising Anglo-Catholicism of the mother Church of England. The Most Rev. Lord Leon Checkemian DD,LLD (1848 to 1920), Armenian Catholic Bishop who had moved to Britain and became a protestant Anglican, served as the first Primate of our Church. The Most Rev. Charles Dennis Boltwood,DD,LLD (1889 to 1985), the eighth Bishop Primus, brought the Church to West-Africa, North America and Canada. 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 and University.
Let us all be one
I'd like the memory to be a happy one-
I'd like to leave an after glow of
smiles when life is done.
I'd like to leave an echo softly
whispering down the ways-
of happy times and laughing
times and bright and sunny days.
I'd like the tears of those who
grieve to dry before the sun-
of happy memories that I leave...
when life is done.
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