Documents Concerning Unity

If you are patient, you can find the documents that are often referred to in the dialogue surrounding the current efforts between the See of Rome and the Traditional Anglican Communion for union. We have collected the significan ones below. 

Not all the anticedent documents preceeding the publication of the Apostolic Constitution Anglicanorum Coetibus documents are available on the web, but as many of those that are available are given below. All links are to the official TAC, ACA and Vatican documents available at their web sites.

All official statements issued by the House of Bishops of the Anglican Church in America are available at www.acahome.org.

The web links below are to sites containing these documents. Because they are not physically located on this web site, the links may become "broken." Please notify the webmaster@anglicanwest.org if this happens.

Apostolic Constitution Anglicanorum Coetibus Documents and Official Commentary

• 3 March 2010: ACA and Catholic Pastoral Provision Parish request for the establishment of an Ordinariate in the United States. Click her to view the request. (ACA)

• March 2010: Anglican Catholic Church in Australia's request for the establishment of an Ordinariate in Australia. Click here to view the request. (ACCA)

• 17 March 2010: ACA Answers to Frequently Asked Questions. Click here to view. (ACA)

• 12 March 2010: The Anglican Catholic Church in Canada requested the establishment of an Ordinariate in Canada. Click here to view this request. (ACCC)

• 27 January 2010: Pastoral Letter from the Primate of the TAC to the Bishops, Clergy and Faithful

• 4 November 2009: APOSTOLIC CONSTITUTION ANGLICANORUM COETIBUS, PROVIDING FOR PERSONAL ORDINARIATES FOR ANGLICANS ENTERING INTO FULL COMMUNION WITH THE CATHOLIC CHURCH (Vatican)

• 4 November 2009: Complementary Norms for the Apostolic Constitution Anglicanorum coetibus (Vatican)

• The Significance of the Apostolic Constitution Anglicanorum coetibus (Fr. Gianfranco Ghirlanda, S.J., Rector of the Pontifical Gregorian University) (Vatican)

• 21 October 2009: NOTE OF THE CONGREGATION FOR THE DOCTRINE OF THE FAITH ABOUT PERSONAL ORDINARIATES FOR ANGLICANS ENTERING THE CATHOLIC CHURCH (Vatican)

• 21 October 2009: Statement by the TAC Primate, The Most Reverend John Hepworth (TAC)

• 20 October 2009: Press Release from the Vatican's Congregation for the Defense of the Faith.

• 27 October 2007: Petition to Rome

Roman Catholic Catechism

• Catechism of the Catholic Church (1994, 1997, Vatican)

• Compendium of the Catechism of the Catholic Church ( 2005, Vatican)

Anglican Catechism

• A Catechism from the 1928 American Book of Common Prayer (provided by the Society of Archbishop Justic)

• Office of Instruction from the 1928 American Book of Common Prayer (provided by the Society of Archbishop Justic)

Canon Law

• Anglican Church in America Code of Canon Law (2002, ACA)

• Roman Catholic Code of Canon Law (1983, Vatican)

• Diocese of the West Canons (2009, DOW)

Foundational Documents

• ACA Declaration and Constitution (ACA)

• The Afirmation of St. Louis (1977)

• Traditional Anglican Communion Concordat (1990)

• Chicago-Lambeth Quadrilatal (1886, 1888, PECUSA)

Anglican-Roman Catholic International Commission II (ARCIC II) Documents

• The Gift of Authority (Authority in the Church) (1999)

  • Statement from the Co-Chairman of the ARCIC at the launch of The Gift of Authority, Westminster Abbey, London (12 May 1999)

  • Commentary on The Gift of Authority by Fr. William Henn, OFM Cap.

• Mary: Grace and Hope in Christ (2005)

  • Commentary on Mary: Grace and Hope in Christ by Fr. Jared Wicks, SJ

• List of unpublished ARCIC statements and other topics including

  • Text under the topic Relations with the Anglican Communion (6 articles from 2004 through 2006)

  • Text of Common Declarations (6 articles from 1966 through 2006)

International Anglican-Roman Catholic Commission for Unity and Mission (IARCCUM)

These texts are found at the bottom of the page on this web page and include these topics:

• Meeting of the Anglican and Roman Catholic Bishops at Mississauga, May 2000

  • Letter of Pope John II to the Participants in the Consultation between Anglican and Catholic Bishops

  • Communion in Mission

  • Action Plan: Community in Mission

• Formation of IARCCUM (November 2001)

  • Letter by Archbishop of Canterbury Dr. George Casey

  • Address of Pope John II

  • Growing Together in Unity and Mission: Building on 40 years of Anglican-Roman Catholic Dialogue (2007)

  • Commentary and reflections on Growing Together in Mission and Unity by Bishop Bernard Longley

Informational Documents and Web Sites

• Information about the Anglican Communion including lists of those in communion and not in communion.

• Anglican Church in America, DNE, DEUS, DMV and DOW

• US National Council of Catholic Bishops

• The TAC Messenger Journal

• BLOG: theanglocatholic.com

Last update Thursday 29 April 2010 at 1532 PDT