African Orthodox Church

The African Orthodox Church is a church in the United States founded in 1919 by George Alexander McGuire in Chicago. McGuire was a priest of the Episcopal Church of the United States and the Church continues to value features of catholicity to this day . The African Orthodox Church has approximately 15 wards and 5,000 members.

The foundation of the African Orthodox Church (AOC) had the purpose of being an independent African-American Episcopal Church. The Episcopal Rector George Alexander McGuire was ordained bishop on September 28, 1921 in Chicago by Joseph René Vilatte . The new church was initially called the Independent Episcopal Church ; at their first conclave ( House of Bishops ) on September 10, 1924, the name was changed to African Orthodox Church .

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• Arthur C. Thompson's The History of the African Orthodox Church (1956)
• Byron Rushing's A Note on the Origin of the African Orthodox Church (JNH, Jan. 1972)
• Gavin White's Patriarch McGuire and the Episcopal Church

Web links

Commons : African Orthodox Church  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• NetMinistries - African Orthodox Church, Inc.
• St. John Will-I-Am Coltrane Church, San Francisco
• The Origin of Orthodoxy in East Africa - by His Eminence Metropolitan Makarios (Tillyrides) of Zimbabwe

Individual evidence

1. ↑ See Mead, Frank S., Handbook of Denominations in the United States, 10th edition, Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1995, pp. 128-129.