Anglo-Lutheran Catholic Church

The Anglo - Lutheran Catholic Church ( Anglo - Lutheran Catholic Church ALCC ) is a small Christian denomination that was founded in the USA in 1997. It sees itself as a Lutheran church with Anglican roots also on the way to a corporate union with the Roman Catholic Church. It is divided into archdioceses and dioceses in the U.S., Europe and Africa.

The ALCC is one of their commitment basics Luther's Large and Small Catechism and the Augsburg Confession as well as the Thirty-nine Articles of the Church of England and interprets these formulations of faith of the Reformation period in accordance with the Roman Catholic faith, as set forth in the Catechism of the Catholic Church. Specifically, they accepted the primacy and infallibility of the Pope. Lutheranism understands it not as Protestantism, but as an involuntarily retired from the Catholic Church reform movement whose goal is the return to unity. It rejects the ordination of women and practicing homosexuals.

In May 2009, the ALCC sent a formal petition to the Holy See to corporate inclusion in the Roman Catholic Church. The request was processed at the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith and answered in October 2010 with regard to the made ​​possible by Anglicanorum Coetibus way. The ALCC responded immediately with a request to initiate the process of unification.

Metropolitans

• Irl A. Gladfelter (1997-2011)
• Robert Walter Edmondson ( since 2011 )