Creighton Jones first felt the call to enter the priesthood in the 1980s, but he didn’t think the time was right.
Today, 10 years after receiving his seminary training, the Myrtle Beach priest is overseeing a worldwide congregation 1.5 million members strong.
On Saturday, he was the Rev. Canon Creighton Jones of Myrtle Beach’s Good Shepherd Anglican Church. Following a two-plus hour consecration ceremony ”“ attended by bishops from Ghana and India as well as 80 parishioners ”“ he was rechristened as the presiding bishop of the Orthodox Anglican Church in the U.S., and the archbishop of the worldwide Orthodox Anglican Communion.
What keeps the ACNA from joining with these Orthodox Anglicans?
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Eugene
The ACNA is mostly composed of Episcopalians who are bent over the endorsement of homosexuality. But they are pretty open minded about most of the other doctrinal innovations including W/O. Basically they just hit the rewind button for about 15 years ago. The OAC is much more theologically conservative and I am pretty sure that they don’t do W/O.
The Orthodox Anglican Church is a different church from the Anglican Orthodox Church in Statesville, NC, and other places. The AOC is a 1928 Prayer Book, 1940 Hymnal originally low church group. Until I read this news report I did not know about the OAC.
According to Wikipedia, the Anglican Orthodox Church split from the Orthodox Anglican Church, in 2001, after the OAC decided to abandon low churchness in favor of liturgy.
[blockquote] “The Orthodox Anglican Church is a different church from the Anglican Orthodox Church in Statesville, NC, and other places.” [/blockquote]
I am NOT going to make any jokes about the Judean People’s Liberation Front…. ;o)
I am a little surprised that a denomination with 1 million members in India would be choosing its primate from the American branch with only 500 members. But I suppose stranger things have happened…