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Links to Apostolic-succession independent churches

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See note about this page regarding which churches are listed here and which are not.

Page table of contents:

Charismatic stream

Durate-Costa stream

South Indian stream

Unclassified or mixed-stream apostolic churches

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Apostolic-succession independent churches

► Celtic stream

■ Anamchara Celtic Church

■ Celtic Christian Church

■ Celtic Orthodox Christian Church

■ Church of the Culdees

■ Holy Celtic Church

■ Independent Celtic Church International

► Charismatic stream

■ Charismatic Orthodox Church

■ Christ Charismatic Liturgical Church

► Durate-Costa stream

■ Apostolic Catholic Church in America

■ Catholic Apostolic Church in North America

■ Christ Catholic Orthodox Church

■ Community Church of Joy

■ Hispanic-Brasilian Confraternity of Christian Doctrine, Saint Pius X [No online site]

■ Igreja Católica Apostólica Brasileira

■ Igreja Catolica Apostolica Nacional in the USA

■ Western Orthodox Church in America

Durate-Costa churches generally

Apostolic Succession - Carlos Duarte Costa

► Ngo Dinh Thuc-stream

■ Holy Palmarian Church [See Independent Catholic section of Catholics page]

■ Latin-Rite Catholic Church

■ Union Católico Trento (Tridentine Catholic Union)

► South Indian stream

■ Eastern Catholic Archdiocese (Chaldean-Syrian), Metropolia of the Americas

■ Mar Thoma Church Outside India

■ Mar Thoma Syrian Church of India

► Vilatte stream

■ African Orthodox Church [No online site]

■ African Orthodox Church of the West [No online site]

■ American Church of the East and the Federation of St. Thomas Christians

■ Antiochian Catholic Church in America

■ Catholic Church of the Holy Grail

■ Christian Catholic Rite of Community Churches

■ Free Catholic Church

■ Independent Old Catholic Church

■ St. Anne’s African Orthodox Church [No online site]

■ Vétero-Catholic Church in Brazil ((Igreja dos Vétero Católicos no Brasil)

► Unclassified or mixed-stream apostolic churches

■ Autocephalous Naker Rite Catholic and Apostolic Church

■ Catholic Apostolic Church of Antioch - Malabar Rite

■ Church of Bangladesh [No official site]

■ Church of North India

■ Church of South India

■ English Nordic Orthodox Church of North America

■ Free Church of Antioch

■ Friends Catholic Communion

■ Friends Catholic Episcopate of the Resurrection

■ Fullness of Life Community Church

■ Hawaiian Reformed Catholic Church

■ Hearth of Joseph of Arimathea

■ Holy Christian Orthodox Church

□ Holy Christian Orthodox Church, Traditional Western Rite Archdiocese of America

■ Holy Restoration Christian Church (aka Restoration Christian Church, Evangelical Missionary Christian Church)

■ Home Temple Priesthood

■ Inclusive Orthodox Church

■ Moorish Orthodox Church in America

■ Orthodox Christian Fellowship of Mercy

■ Orthodox Church of the East [No online site]

■ Philippine Independent Church (Aglipayan Church -- Iglesia Filipina Independiente)

PIC generally

Philippine Independent Church on Encyclopedia.com 2002

Entry from Encyclopedia.com

An Introduction to the Iglesia Filipina Independiente (Philippine Independent Church) by Rev Fr Apolonio Ranche

Parishes

The Holy Cross and Our Lady of Peace Parish, CA

■ Syrian Orthodox Eparchy of Nebraska Church

Independent apostolic-succession churches generally

Episcopi vagantes

From Anglican Online, Church Times, March 17, 2000

Ind-Movement.org: The World of Autocephalous Churches

Fr. Tony Begonja’s indispensable guide to autocephalous ("Independent-Movement") churches

Groupings of denominations

Union of Traditional Apostolic Churches

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Note: The intent is to list on this page churches that maintain the historic apostolic succession for their bishops but which should be considered as largely “independent” from the Catholic, Orthodox, or Anglican traditions (or deriving from a blend of those traditions).

Many of the churches listed on this page consider themselves to be “Catholic” or “Orthodox.” (Most would object to classification as “Protestant”, and so these entries are now on a separate page rather than a section in the Protestant page.) But many of the churches here are a mixture of many traditions. For example, the English Nordic Orthodox Church of North America considers itself “Orthodox”, but uses the King James Version of the Bible and the 1928 Episcopal Book of Common Prayer. On High Holy Days, the Sarum Missal published by the Orthodox St. Hilarion Press of Austin, Texas, is used. Hymns by C.S. Lewis are sung, and the Rite of St John Chrysostom is sometimes used. Clearly, this is a church with a unique blend of traditions. Other churches can be difficult to classify because of the multiple lines of apostolic succession. The Antiochian Catholic Church in America (ACCA), for example, has apostolic succession in Old Catholic, (Matthew), Syro-Indian Orthodox (Vilatte), and Byzantine Rite Roman Catholic (Aneed) lines. Is the ACCA a Catholic- or a St. Thomas Christian-tradition independent church? Such mixed churches are generally entered in this section unless they strongly self-describe as being of one tradition or another. My method generally accords with the classification schemes used by the Total Catholic Home Page and by Fr. Tony Begonja’s Ind-Movement.org, Your Complete Guide to the World of Autocephalous (“Independent-Movement”) Churches in the Apostolic Succession page.

Independent apostolic-succession churches in a more purely Eastern Orthodox tradition can be found on the Eastern Orthodox page, and for the Catholic tradition on the Catholic page. Independent Anglican tradition churches can be found under the Anglican heading on the Protestant page. Check around if you don’t see an entry here that you feel should be. Taxonomy is an art, not a science.