A Reformed Catholic Faith

Holding together the riches of the ancient Church and the insights of the Reformation.

Anglicanism emerged from the English Reformation, when the Church in England was renewed according to the teaching of Holy Scripture. The Reformers did not seek to create a new church, but to restore the ancient Church to the truth of the Gospel—removing errors that had developed over time while preserving all that was biblical, historic, and good.

For this reason, Anglican theology is thoroughly evangelical and reformed in nature. We believe that the Bible is the supreme authority for faith and life, that salvation is the gift of God’s grace, and that sinners are justified through faith in Jesus Christ. The preaching of the Gospel, the call to repentance, and the need for personal faith and conversion stand at the heart of our tradition.

At the same time, Anglican worship remains deeply rooted in the historic practice of the Church. We confess the ancient creeds, follow the Christian calendar, worship through the Book of Common Prayer, and gather around both Word and Sacrament. Our bishops, priests, and deacons continue an ordered pattern of ministry inherited from the early Church.

This combination is one of Anglicanism’s greatest strengths: reformation theology joined to traditional Christian practice. Our ceremonies and traditions are not ends in themselves, but servants of the Gospel. They give biblical truth a visible, embodied form, helping us worship God with our minds, hearts, voices, and bodies.