Lusitanian Catholic Apostolic Evangelical Church
Intro
The Lusitanian Catholic Apostolic Evangelical Church is an Anglican church in Portugal that emerged as a distinct Protestant body in the nineteenth century and later entered the Anglican Communion as an extraprovincial church. It preserves an episcopal structure and Portuguese-language worship while tracing part of its liturgical identity to both Anglican and older Iberian traditions.
Structure
The Lusitanian Church operates as a national extra-provincial Anglican church in Portugal rather than as part of a larger European Anglican province. It is led locally by its own bishop while remaining under the metropolitan authority of Canterbury within the Anglican Communion.
Its public life is organized around a national church structure, a cathedral seat at St. Paul's Cathedral in Lisbon, and Portuguese liturgical practice shaped by a locally developed prayer book that drew on Anglican, Roman, and Mozarabic forms.
| Element | Details |
|---|---|
| Status | Extra-provincial member church of the Anglican Communion in Portugal |
| Local bishop | Jorge Pina Cabral |
| Cathedral seat | St. Paul's Cathedral, Lisbon |
| Liturgy | Portuguese-language worship shaped by Anglican prayer-book tradition and Mozarabic and Roman influences |
| Reported membership | Roughly 2,700 to 5,000 members in cited modern estimates |
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Source: Intro adapted from the Wikipedia article "Lusitanian Catholic Apostolic Evangelical Church". Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Source: Structure summary and table adapted from the Wikipedia article "Lusitanian Catholic Apostolic Evangelical Church". Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Title image uses the flag of Portugal from Wikimedia Commons, used as a fallback identifier because I did not find a clearly free denomination logo; the file is marked public domain there.