Traditionalist Anglicans to convene in Victoria

Traditional Anglican Church leaders from around the world will meet June 1 to 4 in Victoria, B.C., at St. Ann’s Chapel to “renew the spirit of St. Louis” and encourage a united orthodoxy through the celebration of the traditional Anglican heritage.

The spirit of St. Louis refers not to Charles Lindbergh’s transatlantic plane but to a 1977 Missouri congress attended by nearly 2,000 traditionalist Anglicans. They produced a document called “the Affirmation of St. Louis,” which spelled out the doctrines of orthodox Anglicanism, dating back to the Thirty-Nine Articles of Religion that defined the doctrinal position of the Church of England in the 16th century. “Many of the breakaway traditional Anglican churches attending subscribed to that,” says Allan Singleton Wood, chair of the 2011 Victoria conference.

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