On 5 February 2015, Archbishop Francis C. Spataro will retire as Primate of the Apostolic Episcopal Church following sixteen years of service. Archbishop Spataro on 29 July 2014 appointed the Prince-Abbot his co-adjutor with right of succession, and accordingly the Prince-Abbot will become the fifth Primate of the Apostolic Episcopal Church with the Eastern designation Mar Joannes Edmundus. The Prince-Abbot has served as Archbishop of Great Britain within the Apostolic Episcopal Church since 2008.

There will be some changes to the ecclesiastical pages of the Abbey-Principality’s website over the coming days. The external missions that have at present functioned under the Order of Antioch will be transferring to the Apostolic Episcopal Church, and some of the Order’s clergy will be serving bivocationally in the AEC. This will enable a clearer focus on mission and outreach, and a greater differentiation between our chivalric and ecclesiastical work. A number of pages dealing with church history and mission will be transferred to the new official AEC website, which will be at http://apostolicepiscopalchurch.org This website will launch on 5 February.