The Lusitanian Catholic Apostolic Evangelical Church ( pt, Igreja Lusitana Católica Apostólica Evangélica) in

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is a member church of the

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Membership

The church has around 5,000 members.

Structure

As an Episcopal denomination, the church is governed by a bishop (Greek, επίσκοπος ''episcopos''). The Lusitanian Church is a

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with two archdeaconries, for the North and South of Portugal, and 14 parishes. It also has

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s. The bishop has his

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, where his throne is located in St Paul's Cathedral. The administration of the diocese is centred at

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Worship and liturgy

In the early days of the church, a translation into Portuguese from 1849 of the 1662 edition of the

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was used. In 1884 the church published its own prayer book based on the

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and

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liturgies. The intent was to emulate the customs of the primitive apostolic church.Rowthorn, Jeffery. "Anglican Churches in Europe." Pages 439-442. IN: Hefling, Charles C., and Cynthia L. Shattuc
The Oxford Guide to the Book of Common Prayer: A Worldwide Survey
Page 440.

References

Bibliography

* Anglican Communion, and Church of England
The Iberian Churches
ondon 4 Great Peter St., SW1P 3NQ Anglican Consultative Council, 1980. Responsibility: report to the Archbishop of Canterbury by the commission appointed to consider the application by the Lusitanian Church and the Spanish Episcopal Church for full integration into the Anglican Communion. * Church of Ireland, and William Conyngham Plunket Plunket. The Irish Bishops and Church Reform in Spain and Portugal: A Record of the Action Taken by the Irish Episcopate at Their Meeting February 20, 1894. Dublin: Hodges, Figgis, 1894. * Colóquio comemorativo do centenário da Igreja do Torne
Vila Nova de Gaia de ha cem anos
Vila Nova de Gaia: Junta Paroquial de S.João Evangelista, 1995. * Iglesia Española Reformada Episcopal, and Colin Ogilvie Buchanan
Liturgies of the Spanish and Portuguese Reformed Episcopal Churches
Grove, 1985. * Igreja Lusitana Católica Apostólica Evangélica
Eucaristia ou Ceia do Senhor
ôrto mprensa Social 1963. * Igreja Lusitana Católica Apostólica Evangélica
O livro de oração comum; administração dos sacramentos e outros ofícios divinos na Igreja Lusitana
Porto, Portugal: Tipo-Lito de Gonçalves & Nogueira, 1928. * Igreja Lusitana Católica Apostólica Evangélica
Lusitanian Church, Catholic Apostolic Evangelical: A Century of Portuguese Anglican Witness
Vila Nova de Gaia: .n. 1985. * Igreja Lusitana Católica Apostólica Evangélica (Portugal)
Ecclesia
Orgão Oficial Da Igreja Lusitana Católica Apostólica Evangélica. Ano 5. No. 24. Ano 6. No. 25/27. Nov. 1953, Jan/Maio 1954. 1953. * Irwin, O. A. C. Pilgrim Churches: The Spanish and Portuguese Reformed Episcopal Churches. ondon, England oughton & Sons, Ltd. 1956. * The Lusitanian Church Catholic, Apostolic, Evangelical: Is Episcopal, Essentially National, Truly Catholic and Apostolic, Really Independent of Rome or of Any Other Foreign Authority, and Only with These Features Indispensable to a Truly Evangelical, Independent and National Church Has She Any Right to Exist. Oporto: Mendonça Press, 1913. * Macdonald, John A. 2013. "Dioceses Extra-Provincial to Canterbury (Bermuda, the Lusitanian Church, the Reformed Episcopal Church of Spain, and Falkland Islands)". 464-473. IN: Markham, Ian S.; Provinces; Markham/The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to the Anglican Communion
The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to the Anglican Communion
464-473; John Wiley & Sons, Ltd: Chichester, UK. Summary: This chapter describes three dioceses and one parish that are extra-provincial and come under the primatial authority of the Archbishop of Canterbury. The three dioceses are the Spanish Reformed Episcopal Church (Iglesia Espanola Reformada Episcopal), the Lusitanian Catholic Apostolic Evangelical Church of Portugal (Igreja Lusitana Catolica Apostolica Evangelica), and the Diocese of Bermuda. The Falkland Islands are considered a parish and receive Episcopal attention from a bishop commissary appointed by the Archbishop of Canterbury. * Moreira, Eduardo
Esboço da história da Igreja Lusitana
ortugal Edição do Sínodo da Igreja Lusitania Católica Apostólica Evangélica, 1949. * Plunket, William Conyngham Plunket, R. Stewart Clough, and Thomas Godfrey Pembroke Pope. The Divine Offices and Other Formularies of the Reformed Episcopal Churches of Spain and Portugal. London: S.W. Partridge, 1882. * Ribeiro, António Pinto
Catecismo de doutrina cristã: destinado à instrução religiosa dos alunos das escolas primárias da Igreja Lusitana Católica Apostólica Evangélica
orto Edição do Sínodo da Igreja Lusitania, 1949.
Ordem da eucaristia: segundo o rito da Igreja Lusitana
edição do Sínodo da Igreja Lusitana Católica Apostólica Evangélica. S.l: s.n.], 1969.

External links

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