Looks like the use is spreading. Will an angelican ordinariate be established to help some transfer out of Bishop Lopes’s jurisdiction?The fact that the "Angelican" parish occupies the same property as the former TEC made me wonder if "Angelican" is a legal dodge -- What I've sometimes seen is when a parish leaves TEC and is able to negotiate to keep its property, TEC inserts a clause that prohibits the parish calling itself either Episcopalian or Anglican. I know Mrs Bush used the similarity as a gimmick to open at least one bank account in the St Mary of the Angels Angelican name to be able to deposit checks written to St Mary of the Angels Anglican accounts.
Virtue Online had this 2012 story on the Glory of God Angelican parish in Cocoa:
A church congregation north of Cocoa completed its split with an Episcopal diocese in 2007 following a national feud in the Episcopal church over the Bible and sexuality.Glory of God Angelican, by the way, is 7.5 miles from the St Patrick's Anglican Cathedral in Cocoa, an ACA parish. Glory of God is Convocation of Anglicans in North America. It's 49.6 miles from the OCSP Church of the Incarnation in Orlando.The Glory of God Anglican Church bought the property the congregation has worshiped at since the 1960s from the Episcopal Diocese of Central Florida for $875,000, according Beatrice Sorensen, church administrator.
The diocese had informed the church it was no longer interested in leasing the property at 3735 Indian River Drive, which was the site of Gloria Dei Episcopal Church before the amicable split.
I'm overjoyed that there's so much choice among churches celebrating the precious treasures of the Anglican spiritual patrimony in central Florida, and there's so little difference! I agree with the visitor, perhaps the CDF could set up an Angelican ordinariate that would appeal to the Cocoa churches!
UPDATE: The visitor points out that there is also an All Saints Epicopal Angelican Church in Ozone Park, NY. (I always loved that name, up there with Poison Lake, CA).
