The Orthodox Anglican Church (OAC) is the American branch of the Orthodox Anglican Communion. Due to similarities in churchmanship and apostolic succession it is now considered to be part of the Continuing Anglican movement, although the church predates the movement and its presiding bishop was publicly critical of the jurisdictions created during the late 1970s. The church was incorporated on March 6, 1964, as the Anglican Orthodox Church by Episcopalians who were alarmed at what they considered to be liberal trends in the Episcopal Church in the United States of America. Having had its first bishop consecrated on Passion Sunday in 1964 the church in 2014 will mark 50 years as a jurisdiction of the One, Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic Church. The Church will also mark the 50th anniversary of its incorporation in the state of North Carolina March 6, 2014.
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“The Anglican Church is marked by the grace and good sense of its forms, by the manly grace of its clergy. The gospel it preaches is, “By taste are ye saved.” ... It is not in ordinary a persecuting church; it is not inquisitorial, not even inquisitive, is perfectly well bred and can shut its eyes on all proper occasions. If you let it alone, it will let you alone. But its instinct is hostile to all change in politics, literature, or social arts.”
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