British Orthodox Church

British Orthodox Church in Coptic - orthoxoden patriarchy is called a small church in the UK, which today belongs to the Coptic Patriarchate of Alexandria. Although it is the doctrine and practice according to Eastern Orthodox but tries cultural peculiarities of the British considered. She sees herself as a carrier of the Orthodox faith in the British Isles and also attempts to promote cooperation between Byzantine Orthodox and Oriental Orthodox churches.

History

Today's British Orthodox Church performs its existence back to the work of the Frenchman Jules Ferrette (1828-1904) and the Welshman Richard Williams Morgan. Ferette initially joined one at the Dominicans in Flavigny- sur -Ozerain and was ordained on June 2, 1855 in St. John Lateran Basilica to the priest. However, a year later he resigned from the Order and distanced himself from Catholicism. He emigrated to Damascus and is said to have there, made ​​friends with the Bishop of Emesa, Mar Bedros. In 1866, he appeared in England, claiming to have been consecrated by Mar Bedros Bishop of Iona.

Richard Morgan Williams was ordained Anglican priest in 1842. He was an advocate of Christianity, which should fall back to the origins before the mission by Augustine of Canterbury. He came into contact with Ferrette and this is him bishop with the title Pelagius I., have consecrated Hierarch of Carleon -on- Usk, Patriarch of the "Ancient British church ". Morgan continued the line of succession, he consecrated in 1879 Charles Isaac Stevens to the bishop, who in turn passed the consecration to the Armenians Leon Chechemain. However, a significant community unmaintained these bishops.

1938 distanced the Syrian Patriarchate of Antioch of the allegations, the consecration line Ferrettes entstamme their succession. On October 17, 1943 about various bishops of the consecration line Ferrettes and other consecration lines met for a " council of London ', where the representatives of these partially existing only on paper Churches ( Pearson called the Ancient British Church, British Orthodox Catholic Church, the Apostolic Episcopal Church, the Old Catholic Orthodox Church, the Order of the Holy Wisdom and the Order of Antioch ) the Syriac Orthodox Patriarch of Antioch condemned as schismatic and in turn, a patriarch of Antioch, namely the Theosophists and bishop of the Liberal Catholic Church William Bernard Crow, of the name of His Holiness Mar Basilius Abdullah III Mohoran. assumed chose. A few months later, the Ancient British Church, British Orthodox Catholic Church and Old Catholic Orthodox Church united to form the Western Orthodox Catholic Church, which claimed for himself autocephaly and autonomy and territorial jurisdiction in the United Kingdom and Western Europe.

Both the Anglican and the Orthodox churches distanced himself from this church was founded. Crow in turn consecrated on April 10, 1944 Hugh George de Willmott Newman a bishop with the title Mar Georgius, Archbishop and Metropolitan of Glastonbury and Catholicos of the West. De Willmott Newman conducted numerous episcopal ordinations, among other things, he dedicated the Frenchman Paul -Edouard de Fournier de Brescia who revived a one episcopus vagans monastery founded in Brittany, and in 1977 his nephew William Henry Hugo Newman - Norton, under the name Mar Seraphim took up negotiations with the Coptic Church and was ordained in 1994 as Metropolitan of Glastonbury and as such is also a member of the Coptic Synod. Since then renamed his church under the name of British Orthodox Church in Coptic - orthoxoden patriarchy (before last Orthodox church in the British Isles ). The Breton branch did not take place with this step and trades under the name Celtic Orthodox Church.

Structure

CURRENT head of the British Orthodox Church is Father Seraphim of Glastonbury; whose real name was William Henry Hugo Newman - Norton ( born February 27, 1948). The British Orthodox Church is by him a full member of the Holy Synod of the Coptic Patriarchate of Alexandria.

The numerically very small British Orthodox Church has 12 parishes and offices in the UK. Their liturgy is celebrated in English; There are worshiped as well as the Oriental Orthodox saints and the English Saints. Normally, the Liturgy of St. James is celebrated, which is not customary in the Coptic Church. Besides the usual liturgical celebrations of the Coptic Church are celebrated. Official organ of the British Orthodox Church is the Glastonbury Review.