Anglicans Request 1st Personal Ordinariate for the U.S.

According to The Anglo-Catholic, the Traditional Anglican Communion in the U.S. has formally requested the first personal ordinariate for the U.S.

The House of Bishops of the Anglican Church in America, the American Province of the Traditional Anglican Communion, have issued the following press release:

Orlando, FL – 1 pm EST – Bp. George Langberg

Released by the House of Bishops of the Anglican Church in America, Traditional Anglican Communion 3 March 2010

“We, the House of Bishops of the Anglican Church in America of the Traditional Anglican Communion have met in Orlando, Florida, together with our Primate and the Reverend Christopher Phillips of the “Anglican Use” Parish of Our Lady of the Atonement (San Antonio, Texas) and others.

At this meeting, the decision was made formally to request the implementation of the provisions of the Apostolic Constitution Anglicanorum cœtibus in the United States of America by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.”