Convergence Communions
In 1984 Charisma magazine, one of the most influential magazines of the charismatic movement, published an article by Dr. Richard Lovelace entitled “The Three Streams, One River?” (Sept. 1984). Lovelace approvingly noted the trend of Catholics, evangelicals, and charismatics/Pentecostals moving closer together.
In 1992 A. Randolph Adler and a group of like-minded charismatic church pastors from the western U.S. formed the Charismatic Episcopal Church. They obtained ordination in apostolic succession and began worshiping liturgically using the 1979 Book of Common Prayer. The Charismatic Episcopal Church grew to become an international body known for its blending of sacramental, charismatic, and evangelical worship traditions.
Other worldwide Convergence Communions include the Communion of Evangelical Episcopal Churches (CEEC), led by its primate, the Most Reverend Dr. Charles Travis and the Christian Communion International (CCI), led by its Presiding Bishop, the Most Reverend Quintin Moore. These communions are interrelated, the Christian Communion International being a constituent member of the Communion of Evangelical Episcopal Churches. They are Evangelical, Sacramental and Pentecostal in piety and practice and use different authorized liturgies in worship. While women are ordained to both the diaconate and the priesthood, they do not admit women to the episcopate.
The Anglican Mission in the Americas (AMiA) and the Anglican Church in North America (AC-NA) are churches that are connected to various provinces of the Anglican Communion but are also explicitly committed to Convergence theology. Both of them have women priests but no women bishops.
The Lutheran Catholic Communion (LCC) formed in the year 2008 ordains women up to deaconess, and males only to the offices of priest and bishop.
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