Christian Episcopal Church

The Christian Episcopal Church (XnEC) is a Continuing

Christian Episcopal
Anglican jurisdiction consisting of parishes in Canada and the
United States and with oversight of several parishes in the Cayman Church
Islands. Its bishops claim apostolic succession through the Right
Rev. A. Donald Davies. Davies was formerly the bishop-in-charge
of the Convocation of American Churches in Europe and the
bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Fort Worth, Texas.

History
Bishop Archibald Donald Davies had, in 1970, been consecrated
the fourth bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Dallas. Fifteen
bishops of the Episcopal Church assisted at the consecration of
Bishop Davies, with John Elbridge Hines as one of the principal
consecrators. Bishop Hines had himself been consecrated the fifth
bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Texas in 1945, and was later Classification Continuing
elected the Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church in the United Anglican
States of America. Orientation Anglo-Catholic

In 1992, following years of controversy in the Episcopal Church in Polity Episcopal

the USA and the Anglican Church of Canada over what Region United States,
conservative members considered a steady drift towards both Canada, Cayman
political and religious liberalism, the Episcopal Missionary Church Islands, United
(EMC) was founded. Although this was fifteen years after the
Kingdom
Congress of St. Louis at which Anglicans from the USA and
Canada created the Continuing Anglican Movement in opposition Origin 1992
to women's ordination, Prayer Book alterations, and more relaxed Separated from Episcopal Church
sexual standards approved in ECUSA, the EMC is usually in the United
considered a Continuing Church. Bishop Davies was elected its States and
first presiding bishop. He was also elected Archbishop and Primate
Anglican Church
of the several parishes constituting the Christian Episcopal Church
of Canada
of Canada.
Official website xnec.us (http://w
A decade later, a split in the Episcopal Missionary Church's ww.xnec.us/)
Diocese of the West produced the Christian Episcopal Church in
the USA. Those who left the Diocese then appealed to Bishop Davies and joined with the churches in
Canada. At one time, the XnEC in the United States counted parishes in Mississippi, South Carolina,
California, Arizona, Texas and other states, but at present its parishes are two in Washington State and one
in Florida. The current Archbishop and Primate is the Theodore C. Casimes. XnEC's Bishop Co-Adjutor is
the Rt. Rev. Dr. Tim Klerekoper.

Every bishop in the Christian Episcopal Church has had Archbishop Davies as one of his consecrators. All,
therefore, can claim to have received valid episcopal orders through the bishops of the Church of England,
and the Scottish Episcopal Church, but also from the Episcopal Church in the USA.

The Christian Episcopal Church of Canada is headed by Robert David Redmile.

In September 2017 it was announced by Archbishop Theodore Casimes that Gavin Ashenden had been
consecrated as a missionary bishop in the United Kingdom and Europe by the Christian Episcopal
Church.[1] However, on the fourth Sunday of Advent 2019, Ashenden was received into the Roman
Catholic Church by Bishop Mark Davies, the Bishop of Shrewsbury in Shrewsbury Cathedral. [2]

Bibliography
The Apostolic Succession and the Catholic Episcopate in the Christian Episcopal by Robert
David Redmile, published by Xulon, 2006 ISBN 1600345166| pages 66,85-86

References
1. "Former Queen's Chaplain Consecrated Missionary Bishop to Anglicans in UK and Europe"
(http://www.virtueonline.org/former-queens-chaplain-consecrated-missionary-bishop-anglica
ns-uk-and-europe). Virtue Online. Retrieved 2017-09-29.
2. "Anglican Bishop and Queen's Chaplain Converts to Catholicism" (https://www.churchmilita
nt.com/news/article/anglican-bishop-and-queens-chaplain-converts-to-catholicism).

External links
Official Christian Episcopal Church webpage (http://www.xnec.us) Canada and USA
jurisdictions

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