[msdrby]

I have been meaning to ask you, and keep forgetting. Is your church associated with ECUSA or is it separate? I noticed it calls itself Anglican and not Episcopal.

[Alkhin]

It is NOT associated with the ECUSA. It was formed back in the 70s when the ECUSA made some decidedly liberal changes and left a lot of the traditional Episcopalians frustrated and angry. I think it was begun as a way of reasserting the Apostolic tradition and original intent of the Church when it first began, but that is where it starts get confusing for people, especially when the established meme is that the CoE didnt start until Henry VIII. What I learned from this church is that the history of the disparity between Rome and England is that it goes as far back as William the Conqueror.

I am still learning about all of this. I understand it, but have trouble communicating it. We are so similar to both the ECUSA High Church and the RCC Vatican I that its hard to distinguish how we are different, other than the fact that we don't look to the RCC Pope as our authority. We have an archbishop, but I have seen how the Synod works, and it is spookily like that of our own government, with a House (of Lay People) and a "Senate" (of Clergy) and the final veto is reserved for the Archbishop, whose power is very similar to the President of the US. Watching these people at the Provincial Synod last fall in New Orleans gave me the impression of where our Founding Fathers might have obtained their Parliamentary ideas. It was very educational!