Parishes

We are a small, but rapidly growing denomination. Parishes are located in Georgia, Illinois, Maryland, Minnesota, Missouri, New York, Pennsylvania, and Texas. Missions are under development in several other states, Canada, Kenya, and Sudan. There is also a non-geographic ethnic Vietnamese Archdiocese, and a non-geographic ethnic Sudanese Archdiocese in the United States and an Archdiocese of all Africa.

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The Anglo-Lutheran Catholic Church is a True Particular Church in accordance with the terms of the Second Vatican Council’s Dogmatic Constitution on the Church: Lumen Gentium 26 http://www.ewtn.com/library/COUNCILS/V2CHURCH.HTM ; and the Catechism of the Catholic Church (CCC 312, 830-833, http://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_P29.HTM. The Bishops and all other clergy of the ALCC are ordained in the historic Apostolic Succession through several lineages including the Duarte-Costa lineage of the Rebiban (or Vatican) Succession among others. For information about the specific Lineages of the historic Apostolic Succession held by this Church, please contact the Metropolitan Archbishop. The Anglo-Lutheran Catholic Church is a member of the Augustana Evangelical Catholic Communion http://www.geocities.com/littledogs2424/ALCC.html and the Sudanese Council of Churches USA.

Parishes by State

Florida

St. Wilfrid Oratory
The Most Rev. Ed Steele, S.S.S.A, DMin
2506 Astro Pl
Seffner FL 33584
Phone : 813 217-3311
Email: ejsteele56gmail.com

Chaplain Jeffrey R. Bornemann
Command Chaplain
Naval Air Station
Pensacola, FL 32508
Phone: 760 994-3041

Georgia

Our Lady of La Vang Lutheran Church ALCC
The Most Rev. Tan Binh Phan Nguyen, D.D., Th.D., Rector
Dean of the Holy Synod of the ALCC
2389 Alden Woods Drive
Jonesboro, GA 30236
Office and Rectory: (770) 210-9346
E-mail: lavanglutheran@yahoo.com

Indiana

St. Andrew’s Chapel ALCC
Fr. Rodger N. Middleton, Rector
6243 Pinnacle Blvd.
Indianapolis, IN 46237
Parish Office: (317) 985-1319
Email: fr.rodger@gmail.com

Iowa

St. Paul’s Lutheran Church ALCC
The Rev. Fr. Chaplain Duku Ladu Gwongo, Rector
800 N.E. 56th St., #2
Pleasant Hills, Iowa, 50327
Parish Office: (515) 494-1069

Maryland

Christ Lutheran Church ALCC
(Pro-Cathedral of the ALCC Archdiocese of Washington)
The Most Rev. Jens Bargmann, S.S.S.A., K.G.C.M.J.T-J., M.S.Ed., M.Div., Ph.D., D.D., Rector
177 East Main Street
Stevensville, MD 21666
Church Office: 237 Chatham Lane, Annapolis, MD 21403
Telephone: (410) 268-1858, Fax, (410) 268-1858
E-mail: info@christalcc.org
Website: http://www.christalcc.org/

Minnesota

Holy Trinity Church ALCC
The Rev. Fr. Paul Gustafson, S.S.S.A., Rector/Pastor
E-mail: paul@holytrinityalcc.org
Office (612) 554-5368

General Site: www.holytrinityalcc.org
Ministry Site: Inner-City Mission Trips
Ministry Site: Minnesota Food Shelf
Ministry Site: Minnesota Family Counseling Center

Missouri

St. Benedict of Africa Cathedral ALCC
The Most Rev. Chaplen Luyimba Kweri, O.S.A., B.A.Th., M.Div., D.D.
Titular Rector
251 N. Baltimore
Kansas City, MO 64116
Cathedral Office: (816) 786-2742
E-mail: bishopkweri@rocketmail.com

New York

Jesus Our Savior Lutheran Church and Ministries ALCC
The Rev. Monsignor Bernard A. Lopez, S.S.S.A., Rector
206 Kinnebook Park
Monticello, NY 12701
Office and Rectory: (845) 707-4646
E-mail: bernard460202@aol.com

St. Stephen’s Lutheran Church ALCC
Fr. Donald Seekins, S.S.S.A., MAPS, MATH, MBA, Rector
37 Woodrow Road.
Batavia, NY 14020
Parish Office: (585)343-2757
Email: donald.seekins@yahoo.com

North Carolina

St. Andrew the Apostle Church ALCC
The Rev. Monsignor Rick A. Reid, Rector
712 N. Deal Avenue
Newton, NC 27607
Parish Office: (704) 325-0778
Rector’s Mobile Phone: (828) 310-1878

Pennsylvania

Saint Ambrose Chapel at Ashbridge
The M. Rev. Raymond W. Copp, Rector
971 E. Lancaster Ave.
Downingtown, PA 19335
Office: (484) 883-0630
Rectory:
564 Spring Oaks Drive
West Chester, PA 19382
Telephone: 610-639-1082
E-mail: rwcopp@gp4u.us

Washington

Oratory of St. Olav ALCC
The Rev. Kenneth L. Bakken, S.S.S.A., D.O., M.P.H., S.T.M., Dr.P.H.
Rector
Oratory of Saint Olav
2200 North 30th Street
Tacoma, WA 98043

Tel: 253-779-5858
Fax: 253-779-5757

Europe

Germany

Oratory of St. Boniface
Fr. Wanter Pehl, Rector
Ella-Kay Strasse 14
10405, Berlin, Germany

CCC 312,830-833

¶312 In time we can discover that God in his almighty providence can bring a good from the consequences of an evil, even a moral evil, caused by his creatures: "It was not you", said Joseph to his brothers, "who sent me here, but God. . . You meant evil against me; but God meant it for good, to bring it about that many people should be kept alive." From the greatest moral evil ever committed - the rejection and murder of God's only Son, caused by the sins of all men - God, by his grace that "abounded all the more", brought the greatest of goods: the glorification of Christ and our redemption. But for all that, evil never becomes a good.

¶830 The word "catholic" means "universal," in the sense of "according to the totality" or "in keeping with the whole." The Church is catholic in a double sense:

First, the Church is catholic because Christ is present in her. "Where there is Christ Jesus, there is the Catholic Church." In her subsists the fullness of Christ's body united with its head; this implies that she receives from him "the fullness of the means of salvation" which he has willed: correct and complete confession of faith, full sacramental life, and ordained ministry in apostolic succession. The Church was, in this fundamental sense, catholic on the day of Pentecost and will always be so until the day of the Parousia.

¶831 Secondly, the Church is catholic because she has been sent out by Christ on a mission to the whole of the human race:

All men are called to belong to the new People of God. This People, therefore, while remaining one and only one, is to be spread throughout the whole world and to all ages in order that the design of God's will may be fulfilled: he made human nature one in the beginning and has decreed that all his children who were scattered should be finally gathered together as one. . . . The character of universality which adorns the People of God is a gift from the Lord himself whereby the Catholic Church ceaselessly and efficaciously seeks for the return of all humanity and all its goods, under Christ the Head in the unity of his Spirit.

¶832 "The Church of Christ is really present in all legitimately organized local groups of the faithful, which, in so far as they are united to their pastors, are also quite appropriately called Churches in the New Testament. . . . In them the faithful are gathered together through the preaching of the Gospel of Christ, and the mystery of the Lord's Supper is celebrated. . . . In these communities, though they may often be small and poor, or existing in the diaspora, Christ is present, through whose power and influence the One, Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic Church is constituted."

¶833 The phrase "particular Church," which is first of all the diocese (or eparchy), refers to a community of the Christian faithful in communion of faith and sacraments with their bishop ordained in apostolic succession. These particular Churches "are constituted after the model of the universal Church; it is in these and formed out of them that the one and unique Catholic Church exists."