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First Orthodox Anglican Church to be inaugurated at Sekondi
Takoradi, July 16, Ghanadot/GNA- Most Reverend Dr Scott Earl
Mclaughlin, Archbishop and Primate of the Orthodox Anglican
Church in the United States, would inaugurate the first
Orthodox Anglican Church in the West African sub-region in
Ghana on July 28 this year at Sekondi.
Mr Kofi Gyetsua Ankuma, Chairman of the Public Affairs
Committee of the Orthodox Anglican Church, Ghana, announced
this at a press conference on Monday at Takoradi.
He said the Church received its formal certificate of
affiliation from the Orthodox Anglican Communion on Easter
Sunday, April 8 2007.
He said, "The Orthodox Anglican Communion was established in
1967 as a self-governing Anglican body with a worldwide
fellowship of national Anglican Churches committed to the
old paths of one holy Catholic and Apostolic Faith".
Mr Ankuma said the Communion is one of the first of such
communions outside the See of Canterbury and the Church
stands on "Biblical Faith and Morality and thus ordains only
Godly Men to Holy Orders and affirms that marriage is a
sacred bond between a man and a woman".
He said the church does not subscribe to gayism and
lesbianism and uses the traditional Anglican liturgy as
found in the 1928 edition of the Book of Common Prayer.
Mr Ankuma said the Communion is one of the largest Anglican
Fellowships worldwide with branches in Asia, Canada and
parts of Africa with its headquarters in North Carolina in
the United States.
He said the Very Reverend Jacob Augustine Welbourne has been
appointed the Vicar General of the Church in Ghana.
Mr Ankuma said Archbishop Mclaughlin would arrive in the
country on Tuesday July 24.
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