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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“I am fifty-two years of age. I am a bishop in the Anglican Church, and a few people might be constrained to say that I was reasonably responsible. In the land of my birth I cannot vote, whereas a young person of eighteen can vote. And why? Because he or she possesses that wonderful biological attribute—a white skin.”
—Desmond Tutu (b. 1931)
“The gloomy theology of the orthodox—the Calvinists—I do not, I cannot believe. Many of the notions—nay, most of the notions—which orthodox people have of the divinity of the Bible, I disbelieve. I am so nearly infidel in all my views, that too, in spite of my wishes, that none but the most liberal doctrines can command my assent.”
—Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1822–1893)
“I am fifty-two years of age. I am a bishop in the Anglican Church, and a few people might be constrained to say that I was reasonably responsible. In the land of my birth I cannot vote, whereas a young person of eighteen can vote. And why? Because he or she possesses that wonderful biological attribute—a white skin.”
—Desmond Tutu (b. 1931)
“A State, in idea, is the opposite of a Church. A State regards classes, and not individuals; and it estimates classes, not by internal merit, but external accidents, as property, birth, etc. But a church does the reverse of this, and disregards all external accidents, and looks at men as individual persons, allowing no gradations of ranks, but such as greater or less wisdom, learning, and holiness ought to confer. A Church is, therefore, in idea, the only pure democracy.”
—Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834)