The Abbey-Principality of San Luigi and its dependent institutions enter into agreements with the Knights of San Rocco in Italy

On By johnkerseyIn Apostolic Episcopal Church, Catholicate of the West, Institute of Arts and Letters, London, News, Order of Corporate Reunion, Royal Belarus, San Luigi Gazette

The Knights of San Rocco are a knightly order organized as a Christian fraternity with close ties to the Roman Catholic Church who reflect the widespread devotion to San Rocco, a medieval Franciscan Tertiary whose life and miracles are the subject of many popular celebrations throughout Italy.

Pope Paul III instituted a confraternity of San Rocco, which in 1556 was raised to an archconfraternity by Pope Paul IV, and it is from this original foundation that the present fraternal order descends.

The Ordine Cristiano dei Cavalieri di San Rocco, based in Rome, has entered into a number of mutual agreements of recognition with the Abbey-Principality of San Luigi and its dependent institutions. The Prince-Abbot of San Luigi has been appointed an Honorary Brother for life and Honorary Chief Chaplain to the Order.

The Order has also issued the following instruments of friendship, recognition, twinning, accreditation, and partnership, which have been reciprocated by the Abbey-Principality:

Abbey-Principality of San Luigi

The Order of the Sacred Cup

The Order of the Crown of Thorns

The Order of the Lion and the Black Cross

The Order of Antioch

The Apostolic Episcopal Church

The Order of Corporate Reunion

The Prefectory of Great Britain of the Confraternitas Oecumenica Sancti Sepulcri Hierosolymitani

The Epiphany Guild

The International College of Arms of the Noblesse

The Constantinople Orthodox Institute

The Institute of Arts and Letters (London)

Partnerships with the Collegio Araldico-Cavalleresco Signum Aureum, Italy

On By johnkerseyIn News, San Luigi Gazette

The Collegio Araldico-Cavalleresco Signum Aureum (The Heraldic-Chivalric College of the Golden Symbol) was founded in Ancona on the initiative of His Excellency Consul Prof. Dr. Maurizio Marchetti Morganti, member of an ancient noble family and Honorary Consul of the Republic of El Salvador to the Italian Republic and Honorary General Consul of the same Republic to the Republic of San Marino. He was assisted by other friends, upright men who fear God and respect the laws of their Country.

The College was founded under the auspices, gratitude, and heartfelt encouragement of Father Pierbattista Pizzaballa. He is now Cardinal of the Holy Roman Church, Guardian of Holy Mount Zion and of the Most Holy Sepulchre of Our Lord Jesus Christ, and Patriarch of Jerusalem of the Latins since 2020.

The College believes in supporting the memory and studying the history of the Holy Places and the Chivalric Orders that originated in these places. It endorses the values ​​and rules of Chivalry, Culture and Volunteering and is active in cultural exchanges with other organizations that pursue similar cultural and religious goals.

The College promotes Heraldry and, more generally, the historical period known as the Middle Ages, in all its historical, economic, cultural, religious and diplomatic expressions.

The College has entered into mutual agreements of friendship, twinning, accreditation and partnership as follows:

The Abbey-Principality of San Luigi

The Ecclesia Apostolica Divinorum Mysteriorum

St Mary Theotokos Theological Seminary, Texas, USA, is now a seminary of the Apostolic Episcopal Church and the Catholicate of the West

On By johnkerseyIn Apostolic Episcopal Church, Catholicate of the West, The Western Orthodox University

St Mary Theotokos Theological Seminary has been established in Texas under the leadership of its Dean, the Apostolic Episcopal Church Provincial of the South/Catholicate of the West Exarch of the USA Mar Thoma (The Most Revd. Thomas Orville Gore). The Seminary has now been granted a religious exemption from private school licensing by the Board of Higher Education and the Texas Workforce Commission, on the basis that it offers only religious study programmes, and awards one religious degree, that of Master of Divinity.

Although the Seminary is an online educational endeavour, it will  still have a physical presence at 1219 16th Street, Lubbock, TX 79410, in a building which is currently being reconstructed after a severe electrical fire over a year ago. The building is owned by the Gore Family Trust, which leases it at a peppercorn rent to The Anglican Heritage Society, Inc, which is the owner of the Seminary. As was the case before the fire, the building will provide an Office for the Dean, a Theological Lending Library to serve on-line students, and St. Joseph Chapel, for on-campus liturgical training and for the Bishop’s use; plus accommodations for overnight visitors, and visiting clergy.

The Seminary is charter-affiliated with the Order of Franciscans of the Eucharist; and has a full relationship of recognition and credit transfer with the other seminary of the AEC/Catholicate of the West, The Western Orthodox University, which holds religious exemption from private school licensing in the State of Hawaii, USA.

These developments aim to increase the support for men who are candidates for Holy Orders in our church sponsored by their Ordinary. At some future date, a programme for men or women wanting to qualify as Lay Ministers of the Church is envisioned. The seminary programme will also prepare candidates for Chaplaincy Endorsement.

The Anglican Heritage Society, Inc., will provide “St. John Vianney Scholarships” to financially-challenged  seminarians. As is already the policy of the Western Orthodox University, no student will be turned away for financial reasons.

The Order of Franciscans of the Eucharist establishes provision for Oblates of the Order

On By johnkerseyIn Apostolic Episcopal Church, Catholicate of the West

The Order of Franciscans of the Eucharist is a religious order of the Apostolic Episcopal Church and the Catholicate of the West. The Board of Directors and Council members of the OFE have approved the establishment of the OFE Oblates, thus allowing those whose vocation is as Franciscan Tertiaries to become affiliated with the Order.

The Founder of the OFE Oblates is the Most Revd. Thomas Gore, OFEObl, of the AEC and the Catholicate of the West.

The OFE Oblates website page is at:  Order of Franciscans of the Eucharist Oblates – Abbey of Saint Mary Theotokos

Apostolic Episcopal Church Chaplaincy Candidates Recruitment Project

On By johnkerseyIn Apostolic Episcopal Church, Catholicate of the West

Apostolic Episcopal Church
Chaplaincy Candidates Recruitment Project

The USA military chaplaincy serves as the military’s spiritual willingness, makes available emotional, moral, and spiritual support to soldiers and their families. They support all faiths and honor the distinct doctrines of their faith while respecting other denominations.

The Primate and Presiding Bishop and the USA Provincials of the West and South of the Apostolic Episcopal Church [Holy Eastern Catholic and Apostolic Orthodox Church], are launching the USA Military Chaplaincy Candidates Recruitment Project for ordained priests. This noteworthy project will assist us to finalize our church’s application as a designated Chaplaincy Endorsing Religious Organization. The Apostolic Episcopal Church has eligibility with the Department of Defense to sponsor active duty military chaplains.

The Chaplaincy Candidates Recruitment Project Chair is Mar +Francis (Michael Cuozzo) O.F.S., O.F.E., O.C.R, O.A., O.A.M., Provincial of the West, USA, Apostolic Episcopal Church (AEC Secretary for Chaplain Recruitment). The Project Co-Chair is Mar +Toma (Thomas O. Gore) O.C.R., S.S.C., Provincial of the South, USA (AEC Secretary for Chaplaincy Endorsement).

Interested parties should make contact via this link: https://www.franciscanseucharist.org/donate-contact/

Partnerships with the Gran Commenda di Santi Giovanni e Lazzaro di Gerusalemme, Italy

On By johnkerseyIn Apostolic Episcopal Church, Catholicate of the West, Institute of Arts and Letters, London, News, Royal Belarus, San Luigi Gazette

The Gran Commenda di Santi Giovanni e Lazzaro di Gerusalemme is based in Italy under the protection of H.I.R.H. Prince don Ezra Annibale Foscari Widmann Rezzonico, Head of the Imperial House of Leopardi of Constantinople, and with the Grand Prior H.E. Arconte Antonino Iuculano. The Protectorate has entered into mutual agreements of full partnership, friendship, collaboration, accreditation and recognition with a number of the dependent institutions of the Abbey-Principality.

The Belarus Monarchist Association

The Constantinople Orthodox Institute

The Ecclesia Apostolica Divinorum Mysteriorum

The Grand Prix Humanitaire de France et des Colonies

The Institute of Arts and Letters (London)

The International College of Arms of the Noblesse

The Order of Antioch

The Order of the Crown of Thorns

The Order of the Lion and the Black Cross

The Order of the Holy Wisdom

The Byzantine Order of Leo V the Armenian