Holy Apostles was founded in 1993 by a group of Episcopalians who only desired to continue to worship in the true faith handed down from the Apostles.  They knew that the Episcopal Church (ECUSA) had departed from the historic faith, and had therefore departed from them.

We are not a new denomination. We are the church as it was for centuries prior to the 1976 Minneapolis General Convention. We believe we did not leave the Episcopal Church (ECUSA), but that that church left us, by the major change in doctrine brought on by the new prayer book and the ordination of women. 

Holy Apostles Church represents Christianity in the Anglican tradition.  Our beliefs hold to the historic teachings of the church.  We use the ancient method of the church, called the anglican Three-legged Stool, to prove what the church should teach and what you as laity need to believe for salvation.  The Three-legged stool is simply that everything must pass all three of the following tests:  First, it must be found in Holy Scripture. Second, it must be historical; and third, it must be reasonable.

 

OUR BELIEFS THEN INCLUDE:

• We believe the entire Bible, Old and New Testament and the Apocrypha are the inspired word of God, and this only is preached from the pulpit.
• We believe in the sanctity of Christian Marriage, which is between one man and one woman, and that the purpose of marriage is procreation and the furtherance of God’s creation through a family oriented society.
• We believe in the sanctity of human life, controlled only by God.
• We believe and maintain the ancient and unchanged Creeds of the Church.
• We believe in the two major and five lesser Sacraments of the Church.
• We maintain the all male threefold ordination model of scripture: Deacon, Priest, and Bishop.
• We use the 1928 Book of Common Prayer as a standard of worship, because as a book of Doctrine, it is the closest to the ancient teaching of the church.
• We believe that, while mankind’s state of knowledge and thought evolves and expands over time, God’s fundamental message to each of us –the good news of personal redemption through Jesus Christ – never changes. We know this is true because we are told in the book of Hebrews that Jesus is unchangeable, the same yesterday, today and forever.
• We believe that while decisive action to rectify political, social and environmental ills is a vital duty for all Christians, such actions should not be made a substitute for faith and belief in God.

Our duty then is to understand, interpret and share with all people the message of redemption through faith in Jesus Christ. We do this by continuing to proclaim “that faith once delivered to the saints”--the living faith handed to us by the Apostles and Apostolic Fathers. We reject no part of this faith only the additions and changes to it.

"The Universal Church is today, it seems to me, more definitely set against the World than at any time since pagan Rome.  I do not mean that our times are particularly corrupt; all times are corrupt ... The World is trying the experiment of attempting to form a civilized but non-Christian mentality.  The experiment will fail; but we must be very patient in awaiting its collapse; meanwhile redeeming the time, so that the Faith may be preserved alive through the dark ages before us, to renew and rebuild civilization, and save the World from suicide.”   ---T.S. Eliot