Church of St. Joseph

This is a list of conservative evangelical Anglican churches in England. Churches listed include those with the Church of England who self identify as conservative evangelical, who have passed resolutions rejecting the ordination or leadership of women due to complementarian beliefs, and/or belong to conservative evangelical organisations. It also includes churches outside of the Church of England, and therefore outside the Anglican Communion, who self identify as conservative evangelical Anglican or who belong to conservative evangelical Anglican organisations. In May 2014, the House of Bishops' Declaration on the Ministry of Bishops and Priests declared that the Church of England is fully and unequivocally committed to all orders of ministry being open equally to all, without reference to gender. They also acknowledged that those within the Church of England who, on grounds of theological conviction, are unable to receive the ministry of women bishops or priests continue to be within the spectrum of teaching and tradition of the Anglican Communion, and therefore that the Church of England remains committed to enabling them to flourish within its life and structures. To this end, Pastoral and sacramental provision for the minority within the Church of England will be made. Therefore, those parishes in the Church of England whose complementarian theological convictions mean that they would not wish to receive the priestly or episcopal ministry of women can pass a resolution in accordance with the Declaration, requesting that future incumbents of the parish be male. This resolution was formerly Resolutions A and B under the Priests Measure 1993. The Bishop's quarterly newsletters provide an authoritative list of those churches which have passed a resolution: as of August 2018, 125 churches have done so. Such parishes can also ask for alternative episcopal oversight from the Bishop of Maidstone , a conservative evangelical bishop. As of January 2018, 53 churches have done so.In addition to the Bishop of Maidstone, the organisations Reform and Church Society exist to support such churches. They may also members of the conservative evangelical Gospel Partnerships which operates on a regional basis. Churches which are members of such organisations are required to sign up to a complementarian doctrinal basis.In addition, the Church of England website A Church Near You gives churches the option of labelling themselves by style of worship. A number have chosen the label conservative evangelical and are listed below. This may not necessarily mean that the church/parish would not receive a female incumbent, however, since terms are not always defined consistently. For some, the term Anglican is not synonymous with the Church of England or the Anglican Communion but instead refers to a body of belief, practice and tradition. Therefore there exist churches in England self-identifying as Anglican that are not part of the Church of England. The Church of England has been of this nature since its 1994 departure in response to the ordination of women, as is the Free Church of England, which left in 1844 in response to the Oxford Movement-inspired Anglo-Catholic direction of the Church of England. In recent years, conservative evangelical Anglican churches have planted several churches outside the Church of England, sometimes owing to hostility from the local diocese towards the acceptance of the planted churches into CoE structures.Included here are 401 churches within the Church of England as well as 31 non-Church of England churches.
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