Anglican 101

Session 3: the Ecclesia Anglicana Review of Session 2

• Apostolic Succession was the mark of the Catholic Church • Bishops are in the lineage of Apostolic Succession • Laying on of hands • Originally there was only • One, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church • The Church made decisions gathered in Ecumenical Council Apostolic Succession Dio CF The Great Schism

• In 1054 Eastern and Western Church split • Excommunicated each other • Causes • Changes of the date of Easter • Addition of the Filioque clause (and the Son) • Assertion of the Primacy of Rome Branch Theory

• Catholic Church splint into two halves • East (Orthodox) • West (Roman Catholicism) • The Reformation leads the Anglican Church to leave Romanism • A new branch • The Branches are joined by apostolic succession Branch Theory (cont’d) The Conversion of England

• St. Alban’s a Roman soldier in the 4th C • Three British Bishops at the Council of Gaul 314 • Augustine, appointed Abp. Of Canterbury 597 • English church comes under influence of Rome Roman Influence Expands

• St Aiden of Lindensfarne • Irish monk who brought Celtic practices to Church in England • Synod of Whitby 664 AD • Church in England submits to Roman decisions and councils • There was an Anglican distinctiveness in organization and liturgy • What is the authority of the Bp. of Rome? The Middle Ages

• Rome falls • Europe slips into feudalism • Monasteries maintain western thought • Church continues to grow • Western Church increasingly corrupt • Leads to the Reformation Conclusion

• The Church was One, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic • Episcopal form of Church governance • Maintained via apostolic succession • Church is currently broken but survives in branches