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Anglican Orders


Anglican Documents

Saepius Officio--Answer of the Archbishops of Canterbury and York to the Bull Apostolicae Curae of His Holiness Leo XIII. [Adobe Acrobat format]

Notes as to the Consecration of Matthew Parker. By the Rev. Henry Barker, M.A. Supplementary Appendix (A.) From Arthur Lowndes, Vindication of Anglican Orders.New York: J. Pott & Co., 1911.

The Lambeth Conference and the Reformed Episcopal Church

[15 pp; no publisher; no date, but 1941]

Orthodox Doctrine in the American Prayer Book by the Revd Richard D Hatch. A Paper read at Synod Hall, New York, at a Meeting of the Anglican and Eastern Orthodox Churches Union, January 28, 1914. [New York: The Kane Press, 1914. 22 pp]

The Beginning of American Episcopacy. [from William Burgon. The Lives of Twelve Good Men. pp 470-475]

Wherein Do We Differ? Results of a Conference With Reformed Episcopalians By the Rt. Rev. Frank E. Wilson D.D. Bishop of Eau Claire

Roman Catholic Documents

Apostolicae Curae On the Nullity of Anglican Orders, by Pope Leo XIII


The Malines Conversations

Notes on the Conversations at Malines, 1921-1925; Points of Agreement, by Viscount Halifax. London and Oxford: Mowbray & Co, Ltd., 1928 [15 pp pamphlet]

Recollections of Malines

by Walter Frere, CR. Bishop of Truro. The Centenary Press, 1935

Lord Halifax: A Tribute, by Sidney Dark. Milwaukee: Morehouse, 1934.


Orthodox Documents

Why Anglican Clergy Could Be Received in Their Orders. By the Metropolitan Anthony Khrapovitsky. The Christian East, March, 1927

Transcribed by Mr. Peter J. Huemiller.

The Patriarch of Constantinople's Encyclical on Anglican Orders, 1922.

The Letter of the Patriarch of Jerusalem, 1923.

The Letter of the Archbishop of Cyprus, 1923.

The Statement of the Synod of the Patriarchate of Alexandria, 1930.

The Statement of the Sacred Synod of the Orthodox Church of Romania, 1936.

The Statement of the Holy Synod of the Church of Greece, 1939.


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