Apostolic Catholic Church (Philippines)

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Seal of the Apostolic Catholic Church
Apostolic Catholic Church
National Shrine of Ina Poon Bato.jpg
National Shrine of Ina Poon Bato, Quezon City
ClassificationIndependent Sacramental
OrientationIndependent Catholicism
PolityEpiscopal
PatriarchJuan Almario E. M. Calampiano P.P.
AssociationsNational Council of Churches in the Philippines[1]
Canadian Council of Churches
RegionPhilippines and Canada
LanguageFilipino and English
FounderSt. John Florentine L. Teruel
St. Maria Virginia Peñaflor Leonzon
OriginJuly 7, 1992
 Philippines

The Apostolic Catholic Church (ACC) is a Philippines-based Christian denomination forming part of Independent Catholicism. It was established in 1992 by John Florentine L. Teruel and Maria Virginia Peñaflor Leonzon, both canonized as saints within the ACC after their deaths.[2]

The Apostolic Catholic Church, classified by the National Council of Churches in the Philippines and the Catholic Bishops' Conference of the Philippines as Independent Catholic, was founded to mediate and unite the Western Rite or the Roman Catholic Church, and the Eastern Rite or Eastern Orthodox Church into a single unified church.[3]

Organization[]

As an Independent Catholic denomination, the Apostolic Catholic Church in rejection of papal authority and infallibility, is headed by a patriarch.[4] The patriarch's see is the National Shrine of Ina Poon Bato (Our Lady of the Rock) in Quezon City. The current patriarch for the Apostolic Catholic Church is Juan Almario E. M. Calampiano who succeeded John Florentine L. Teruel upon his death on 19 January 2021.[5]

Under the oversight of the patriarch, there were two religious orders and congregations: the Order of the Missionaries of the Holy Spirit (OMHS) and the Order of the Missionaries of John Florentine (OMJF). The members of the congregations are the archbishops, bishops, priests, deacons, subdeacons, nuns, and third order members, bound by their evangelical vows of chastity, poverty, obedience, acceptance of their immediate superiors to the patriarch and to God the Holy Spirit, whom adherents address as Ingkong (an archaic Tagalog honorific often glossed as "grandfather", used to refer to any elderly man).[6]

The church is an active member of the National Council of Churches in the Philippines along with other Protestant and non-Roman Catholic churches whose goal is to achieve ecumenism.[7] It is also a member of the Canadian Council of Churches.[8]

The church claims five to eight million members worldwide, although it provides no reliable evidence for these figures.[9]

References[]

  1. ^ National Council of Churches in the Philippines. "Our Member Churches". Retrieved 13 March 2012.
  2. ^ "Apostolic church patriarch and founding bishop". The Manila Times. 2021-07-31. Retrieved 2021-11-11.
  3. ^ "Our Member Churches". Retrieved 2021-11-11.
  4. ^ "Governance". Acc-ingkong.com. Archived from the original on 2011-10-08. Retrieved 2011-09-19.
  5. ^ "PATRIARCH". ACC Website Staging. 2021-02-15. Retrieved 2021-11-11.
  6. ^ "Ingkong (The Holy Spirit)". Acc-ingkong.com. Archived from the original on 2011-10-08. Retrieved 2011-09-19.
  7. ^ "Our Member Churches". National Council of Churches in the Philippines. Archived from the original on 2009-02-09. Retrieved 2009-07-31.
  8. ^ Canadian Council of Churches Members List
  9. ^ Davila, Karen. "Sekta ng sakripisyo: Kulto o sentro ng mga relihiyoso?". The Correspondents (in Tagalog). ABS-CBN News. Archived from the original on 2006-02-21. Retrieved 2016-03-08.

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