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Who in the World are the Anglicans?

The Anglican Communion is comprised of Ascension and St. Mark’s Church in some 85 million Christians in over 150 Bridgeport is proud of our long Anglican countries. The English Church was established heritage. We started as Ascension Church in wherever the British Empire spread in the Decatur in 1888 and have survived the world. As a federation of National Churches, struggles of many of our Christian neighbors each is independent, and yet linked by a over the decades. In 1965, we joined with St. common history, a shared theology born of Marks and built our current facility. We rejoice our Book of Common Prayer and the Holy at the faithful proclamation of the gospel, no Scriptures of the Old and New Testament. matter what the source, and we mourn the Our worship is both Liturgical and Historic, creeping modern dissolution of the “faith combining elements of a rich musical once delivered to the saints.” Over the past tradition and the prayers of God’s people many decades we have tried to remain from those preserved from Jesus’ day through faithful even though many of our Christian to the modern age. We are the Church of fellows have agreed to a watered down faith poets and sailors; scientists and theologians; stripped of its power to convict the souls of We are members of the One, Holy, Catholic merchants and Captains of State. Among us every human being. and Apostolic Church and consider ourselves are William Shakespeare and Admiral Nelson; We believe that our clergy should be male to be both catholic and reformed. We are the Charles Darwin and Isaac Newton; William and, when married, to someone of the Via Media, the Middle Way; in the middle Wilberforce and . opposite sex. We believe that, looked at between the overzealous Reformers and the gave birth to and properly, scripture should judge us, not the reactive Romans. We have , but no Methodists. Charles and , John other way around, and that we should not Pope; we believe in Purgatory, but not Donne, Jonathan Swift and Thomas Coke interpret the bible according to our own Indulgences; we accept Mary as the greatest were all Anglican their entire lives. We cultural view of the day. We believe that all of Saints, but we pray with her rather than to ministered on the streets of London, in the humans are sinners in need of saving and that her. We aren’t going to tell you what you jungles of Africa, and in the wilds of India. We love begins with telling the Truth, gently if must believe, except in the broadest possible produced the King James Version of the Bible need be. Until lately, we were Episcopalians, terms, but we will help you to find and live a and gave the world the wedding service that until that organization departed the faith that faith that springs from your heart and fills every girl knows by heart. We have had times we celebrate and now stands outside the your life. We believe that the Creeds are the of greatness and times when our fallible Anglican tradition. Today, we are joined with foundation of a relationship that each of us human nature brought us low. Through it all, Anglicans around the world through the builds with our creator. Anglicanism has enriched the world with Anglican Church in North America and we

Truth and brought the saving knowledge of stand happily alongside a growing body of

our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ to her dark devoted Christians who seek to serve Christ in

corners, snowy peaks, and far flung Islands of the world. the seven seas.