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intercommunion with the
Celtic Christian Church

Intercommunion is based upon a mutual acknowledgement of valid apostolic orders and sacraments, as well as a common belief in the first seven ecumenical councils and the Nicene Creed.

Churches and religious orders who have concordats of intercommunion with the Celtic Christian Church make their worship services available to one another's members as needed.  Clergy from each Church may celebrate the sacraments together and for either congregation as needed or desired. Particular rites are honored and may be celebrated for one another as well. These formal agreements are intended to encourage our clergy get to know one another and to work together in their various ministries.

The following are "formal" agreements.  While these have been entered into to allow our members a wider range of choice for worship and fellowship, they are not exclusive.  We acknowledge the sacramental life of Independent Catholic and Old Catholic communities in union with bishops in valid apostolic succession around the world, and we recognize our unity in Faith.          

Concordat of Intercommunion


We, [Name of Official Representative and the Church], and Bishop Joseph A. Grenier, Presiding Bishop of the Celtic Christian Church, do hereby enter into a Concordat of Intercommunion between our two faith communities, each a part of the Mystical Body of Christ.

We share a common Faith in the One, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church founded by Our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, and a common sacramental system consistent with traditional Catholic belief, recognizing particularly the preeminence of the Eucharistic Liturgy (Mass) as the core and center of Catholic life.


We accept the validity of each other’s Apostolic Succession and Sacramental Orders, and we recognize at the same time the diversity of our separate jurisdictional disciplines and devotional practices.

Therefore we do hereby sanction. approve and encourage joint participation of our church memberships at the Eucharistic table, and we foster and encourage joint celebration of the Eucharist by those in Holy Orders, preserving the discretion of the local authority.

Further, we hereby affirm that each Church will work with the other in a Christ-centered relationship, characterized by mutual love, collaboration in ministry, prudence and the observance of the highest ethical and moral standards.

And we affirm that each Church will honor unity with diversity and the primacy of conscience, always based on respectful and prayerful dialogue.

Given this [date of signing]


Churches or religious orders interested in a formal intercommunion may contact Bishop Joseph A. Grenier, The Celtic Christian Church, 476 Birch Drive, Cresco, PA, 18326 or call 570-595-7950.

The Celtic Christian Church currently shares formal intercommunion with the following Churches:

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Celtic Rite Churches or Religious Orders:

 

 

Bishop Thomas Faulkenbury OSJ

 

Bishop Thomas Faulkenbury and Bishop Joseph Grenier were two

of the three bishops in the original Celtic Christian Communion formed in 1997 and have maintained a spiritual bond since that first communion, signing a new concordat in 2010, reaffirming their original common intention to further the Celtic Christian spirit in the Church.

 

 

The Celtic Communion of Christ

The Very Reverend Joe Quinn, Th.D, D.D., COSF

Bishop Primus of the CCC

e-mail:  BishopQuinn@celticcommunion.org

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Lindisfarne Community 
The Most Rev. Jane Fitz-Gibbon, Abbess 

The Most Rev. Andrew Fitz-Gibbon, Abbott 

 

 

 


 

Additionally we are honored to share intercommunion with:

 

Catholic Apostolic Church of Antioch

+Mark Elliott Newman, OC

Presiding Bishop

 

ccclogoChrist's Catholic Church

Most Rev. Brian Ernest Brown

P.O. Box1891

Hollister, MO 65673

4175980852

brian@free-catholic.org

 

 

The Catholic Apostolic Church of North America
The Most Rev. Anthony Santore, FRC, Presiding Bishop

E-mail:  bishoptony@cacina.org

 

This concordat has been in effect since the foundation of the Celtic Christian Church, and bishops and members of CACINA were part of the original inspiration to CCC ministry, as well as co-consecrators of our first bishop.

 

The Catholic Apostolic Church of Antioch—Malabar Rite

Archbishop Richard A. Gundrey, Presiding Bishop

 


The Ecumenical Catholic Diocese of America
The Most Rev. Peter Brennan, Presiding Bishop

E-mail: Ddamdg@aol.com

 

 

The Independent Catholic Union

Bishop Bruce D. Campbell, Presiding Bishop

 

Old Catholic Church in America

Guadalupe Community
E-mail:
poetpat@optonline.net

 

 

Guadalupe Celebration 
Spanish and English-speaking
communities in New Jersey.

 

 

 

 

signing concordat with 
Lindisfarne Community

                            

 


 

For more information about the CCC's involvement in ecumenical efforts see:

The Emerging Church

 

 




 

  

 

 

 

 

Telephone: 570-595-7950    
Postal address: 476 Birch Drive, Cresco, PA 18326

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Last modified: 01/14/13.