[Magdalen] TEC talk

Ann Markle ann.markle at aya.yale.edu
Mon Oct 21 21:21:07 UTC 2019


Two of the conditions under which Seabury was consecrated were that we take
their name (Episcopal) and use their BCP, or substantial portions of it.
That seems as much "folding in," if not more than of the English church.

On Sun, Oct 20, 2019, 8:42 PM Lynn Ronkainen <houstonklr at gmail.com> wrote:

> > the* Episcopal
> > Church is the Scottish Episcopal Church, out of which the US church was
> > born, when Bishop Seabury was consecrated right here where I am, in
>
>
> I know that after the Revolutionary war England could not/would no longer
> consecrate bishops, from their break-away colony but I thought that
> Scotland ordained Seabury as a work-around, as it were, for us. I don't
> recall ever hearing that Seabury's ordination folded American Anglicans
> into the Scottish Episcopal Church, even briefly.
> Lynn
>


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