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The '''Apostolic Catholic Church''' ('''ACC''') (Filipino: ''Apostolika't Katolikang Simbahan'') is an [[Independent Catholic]] [[Christian denomination|denomination]] established in 1992 by John Florentine L. Teruel.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |date=2021-07-31 |title=Apostolic church patriarch and founding bishop |url=https://www.manilatimes.net/2021/07/31/news/apostolic-church-patriarch-and-founding-bishop/1809211 |access-date=2021-11-11 |website=The Manila Times |language=en}}</ref> The ACC has its origin as a Catholic organisation founded in the 1970s in [[Hermosa, Bataan|Hermosa]], [[Bataan]]. |
The '''Apostolic Catholic Church''' ('''ACC''') (Filipino: ''Apostolika't Katolikang Simbahan'') is an [[Independent Catholic]] [[Christian denomination|denomination]] established in 1992 by John Florentine L. Teruel.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |date=2021-07-31 |title=Apostolic church patriarch and founding bishop |url=https://www.manilatimes.net/2021/07/31/news/apostolic-church-patriarch-and-founding-bishop/1809211 |access-date=2021-11-11 |website=The Manila Times |language=en}}</ref> The ACC has its origin as a Catholic organisation founded in the 1970s in [[Hermosa, Bataan|Hermosa]], [[Bataan]]. |
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The Church states that it is founded to unite the [[Eastern Catholic Churches|Eastern rite]] and the [[Western Christianity|Western rite]] of Christianity into a single rite, and into a single Church.<ref>{{Cite news |title=Apostolic Catholic Church |language=en |work=Religion Wiki |url=https://religion.fandom.com/wiki/Apostolic_Catholic_Church |access-date=2022-08-19}}</ref> |
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== History == |
== History == |
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=== First International Sacrifice Valley Kilusang Katoliko === |
=== First International Sacrifice Valley Kilusang Katoliko === |
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The Apostolic Catholic Church, Formerly the First International Sacrifice Valley Kilusang Katoliko (FISVKK), started as a [[Catholic lay organization]] that was founded in Hermosa Bataan in the early 1970s by Maria Virginia P. Leonzon Vda. De Teruel.<ref name="auto5">{{Cite web |title=Our Member Churches |url=https://nccphilippines.org/about-us/our-member-churches/ |access-date=2022-03-30 |language=en-US}}</ref>At that time, the organization was known for its Catholic activities like: [[Catholic Marian movements and societies|Marian movements]], [[Cursillo|Cursillo movements]], [[spiritual healing]], involvement in local politics, etc.<ref>{{Cite web |title=APOSTOLIC CATHOLIC CHURCH: AN ETHNOHISTORY OF A SOCIAL MOVEM |url=https://prezi.com/eh0nwche7d79/apostolic-catholic-church-an-ethnohistory-of-a-social-movem/?frame=239e23a5c8e6d469024ce76a20dd8c1b5a1cd7aa |access-date=2022-08-19 |website=prezi.com |language=en}}</ref> |
The Apostolic Catholic Church, Formerly the First International Sacrifice Valley Kilusang Katoliko (FISVKK)<ref>{{Cite web |last=Alexandria |first=Apo Almiro De |date=2011-11-13 |title=MAHAL NA INGKONG: History of the Apostolic Catholic Church |url=https://mahalnaingkong.blogspot.com/2011/11/history-of-apostolic-catholic-church.html |access-date=2022-08-19 |website=MAHAL NA INGKONG}}</ref>, started as a [[Catholic lay organization]] that was founded in Hermosa Bataan in the early 1970s by Maria Virginia P. Leonzon Vda. De Teruel.<ref name="auto5">{{Cite web |title=Our Member Churches |url=https://nccphilippines.org/about-us/our-member-churches/ |access-date=2022-03-30 |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2006-02-21 |title=abs-cbnNEWS.com - The Correspondents |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060221202244/http://uw.abs-cbnnews.com/images/news/microsites/TheCorrespondents/TheCorrespondents/tc04052004sekta.htm |access-date=2022-08-19 |website=web.archive.org}}</ref>At that time, the organization was known for its Catholic activities like: [[Catholic Marian movements and societies|Marian movements]], [[Cursillo|Cursillo movements]], [[spiritual healing]], involvement in local politics, etc.<ref>{{Cite web |title=APOSTOLIC CATHOLIC CHURCH: AN ETHNOHISTORY OF A SOCIAL MOVEM |url=https://prezi.com/eh0nwche7d79/apostolic-catholic-church-an-ethnohistory-of-a-social-movem/?frame=239e23a5c8e6d469024ce76a20dd8c1b5a1cd7aa |access-date=2022-08-19 |website=prezi.com |language=en}}</ref> |
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=== Separation from the Roman Catholic Church and Establishment === |
=== Separation from the Roman Catholic Church and Establishment === |
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Patriarch Juan Almario is also listed as one of the [[List of current patriarchs#Patriarch%20of%20the%20Apostolic%20Catholic%20Church|World's current Patriarchs]]. |
Patriarch Juan Almario is also listed as one of the [[List of current patriarchs#Patriarch%20of%20the%20Apostolic%20Catholic%20Church|World's current Patriarchs]]. |
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== Beliefs and Tradition == |
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The Apostolic Catholic Church, like Independent Catholic Churches, Believes, Teaches, and Follows Catholic teachings and Theology.<ref>{{Cite news |title=Apostolic Catholic Church |language=en |work=Religion Wiki |url=https://religion.fandom.com/wiki/Apostolic_Catholic_Church |access-date=2022-08-19}}</ref> Although, there are some of its Doctrines that still differs from the Mainstream Cathol |
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The Apostolic Catholic Church believes in the traditional idea of the Catholic Church<ref>{{Cite web |date=2006-02-21 |title=abs-cbnNEWS.com - The Correspondents |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060221202244/http://uw.abs-cbnnews.com/images/news/microsites/TheCorrespondents/TheCorrespondents/tc04052004sekta.htm |access-date=2022-08-19 |website=web.archive.org}}</ref> |
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Conservative Church, which maintains ancient church traditions removed by the Second Vatican council<ref>{{Cite news |title=Apostolic Catholic Church |language=en |work=Religion Wiki |url=https://religion.fandom.com/wiki/Apostolic_Catholic_Church |access-date=2022-08-19}}</ref> |
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follows Catholic teachings and theologies<ref>{{Cite news |title=Apostolic Catholic Church |language=en |work=Religion Wiki |url=https://religion.fandom.com/wiki/Apostolic_Catholic_Church |access-date=2022-08-19}}</ref> |
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=== Saints === |
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The Apostolic Catholic Church follows the doctrine of having saints and holy people based on what they have done when they are still living. Similar to the Episcopal Church and the Anglican Communion, it recognizes all the Roman Catholic and Orthodox saints. Currently, there is only one saint beatified by the ACC Patriarch. |
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[[File:Seniornoemi.jpg|left|thumb|Saint Maria Virginia wearing red clothes with some nuns at her back]] |
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=== ''St. Maria Virginia Peñaflor Leonzon'' === |
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mother of the Church and the Patriarch, Dr. John Florentine L. Teruel, PP. She is the honorary foundress of Apostolic Catholic Church and its Curcillo Movement. Having a high status of spiritual life, she was beatified and canonized as a saint in 1995 by the Patriarch. Because of this, St. Maria Virginia P. Leonzon became the first Filipino non-Roman Catholic saint. All the members of the church congregation believe that St. Maria Virginia P. Leonzon is the Covenant of the Holy Spirit, ''Mahal na Ingkong'' and also the reincarnation of the Virgin Mary. When she is still alive, St. Maria Virginia is a ''living saint'' for all the ACC members. She died at 83 years old in Sacrifice Valley in 2005. |
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== Ecumenical relations == |
== Ecumenical relations == |
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Apostolic Catholic Church | |
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Classification | Independent Catholicism |
Orientation | Independent Catholicism |
Polity | Episcopal and Autocephalous |
Patriarch | Juan Almario E. M. Calampiano |
Associations | National Council of Churches in the Philippines
Canadian Council of Churches |
Region | Philippines, United States of America, Canada, Australia, Hong Kong, Japan, Singapore, Cambodia, United Kingdom, Europe, Middle East, Russia and the Pacific Islands. |
Headquarters | National Shrine of Ina Poon Bato |
Founder | John Florentine L. Teruel and Maria Virginia Peñaflor Leonzon |
Origin | 1991 Philippines |
Separated from | Roman Catholicism |
Congregations | 192 |
Members | more than 5,000,000 (2009 estimate)[1] |
Official website | https://acc.org.ph/ |
The Apostolic Catholic Church (ACC) (Filipino: Apostolika't Katolikang Simbahan) is an Independent Catholic denomination established in 1992 by John Florentine L. Teruel.[2] The ACC has its origin as a Catholic organisation founded in the 1970s in Hermosa, Bataan.
The Church states that it is founded to unite the Eastern rite and the Western rite of Christianity into a single rite, and into a single Church.[3]
History
First International Sacrifice Valley Kilusang Katoliko
The Apostolic Catholic Church, Formerly the First International Sacrifice Valley Kilusang Katoliko (FISVKK)[4], started as a Catholic lay organization that was founded in Hermosa Bataan in the early 1970s by Maria Virginia P. Leonzon Vda. De Teruel.[5][6]At that time, the organization was known for its Catholic activities like: Marian movements, Cursillo movements, spiritual healing, involvement in local politics, etc.[7]
Separation from the Roman Catholic Church and Establishment
In 1991 the organisation and the Roman Catholic Church had a schism; due to some issues, it formally separated itself from the Catholic Church, when John Florentine Teruel was consecrated as a Patriarch and registered the Church as a Protestant and Independent Catholic denomination. But by that time, the movement has already spread throughout the Philippines, Hong Kong, Australia, Canada and the United States of America.[5]
The church's co-founder and spiritual leader, Bishop John Florentine, now consecrated as a Patriarch, then ordained several men throughout the Philippines and America to become priests and deacons.[5]
Present day
Today, the church states it teaches the doctrines of the Holy Spirit, the message of salvation in Christ, and the devotion to the Virgin Mary, through prayer meetings and rosary devotion. The Church believes that by divine revelation, the third person of the Trinity called himself with the name Ingkong and manifested himself in the Philippines through Maria De Teruel. Members are referred to as apo or tinatakan.[5]
Church governance and congregations
The Apostolic Catholic Church, is autocephalous and headed by a Patriarch.[8]
The Apostolic Catholic Church currently has three main religious orders and congregations: the Order of the Missionaries of the Holy Spirit, the Order of the Missionaries of John Florentine, and the Congregation of St. Maria Virginia.[9]
The members of the congregations are the archbishops, bishops, priests, deacons, subdeacons, nuns, and third order members, bound by their evangelical vows of chastity, poverty, obedience, acceptance of their immediate superiors to the patriarch and to God the Holy Spirit, whom adherents address as Ingkong (an archaic Tagalog honorific often glossed as "grandfather", used to refer to any elderly man).[10]
The church currently has 32 dioceses worldwide[9] located all over the Philippines as well as in various key cities of the United States of America, Canada, Australia, Hong Kong, Japan, Singapore, Cambodia, United Kingdom, Europe, Middle East, Russia and the Pacific Islands.[11]
The Apostolic Catholic Church is estimated to have more than 5 million members and has 192 congregations, all over the world.[5]
Patriarchate
The Apostolic Catholic Church, respects but does not accept the authority of the Bishop of Rome, Instead, like the Eastern Orthodox Churches, it has its own Patriarch. [12] Making the Church an Autocephalous Church.[13][14]
The Church's current Patriarch is Juan Almario E.M. Calampiano[15]
Founding Bishop/ First Patriarch
John Florentine Teruel (1950 - January 19, 2021) was the first Patriarch and the founding Bishop of the Apostolic Catholic Church.[16] He is also an educator and a Philantropist.[17]
He was born in Malate, Manila to Ma. Virginia P. Leonzon and Jose Benedicto Teruel.
Education and Priesthood
John Teruel received his Doctor of Philosophy Major in Educational Management in 2002 at the Philippine College of Health and Science. He graduated with a master's degree Major in Educational Management at the Virgen delos Remedies College in Olongapo City, Zambales in 2000. He was also a college graduate of Ateneo de Manila University in 1972, University of Santo Tomas, Pamantasan ng Lungsod ng Maynila and Columban. In 1991, he passed the Secondary Teacher Board Exam.[18]
He was a former Jesuit Seminarian at the Ateneo de Manila, San Jose Major Seminary. He entered the seminary at Blessed Sacrament Seminary (S.S.S. Fathers), Our Lady of Angeles Seminary (OFM Fathers) and San Jose Major Seminary (SJ Fathers).[19]
He also held a Certificate of Registration and Authority to Solemnize Marriage.[20]
Consecration as Patriarch
John Florentine Teruel, by Valid order and right of Apostolic Succession[21], was consecrated as Patriarch by the National Conference of Old Catholic and Orthodox Archbishops, on July 13, 1991, at St. Paul's German Old Catholic Church by the following archbishops: Paul Christian of the Order of Corporate Reunion (OCR), Emile Rodriguez y Fairfield of the Mexican Old Catholic Church (MOCC), Mark Miller of the Byzantine Catholic Church (BCC), Bernard Dawe of the Independent Catholic Church International (ICCI), Jurgen Bless of the German Old Catholic Church (GOCC), Petros Eric T. Ong Veloso of the Orthodox Catholic Church of the Philippines, and Michael Marshall of the Orthodox Catholic Church (OCC).[22]
Juan Almario E.M. Calampiano
Juan Almario EM. Calampiano became the second Patriarch of the Apostolic Catholic Church, through ceremonies held on 31 January 2021. Before his appointment as head of the church, he served as long-time senior Archbishop and chancellor to the Patriarch at the National Shrine of Ina Poon Bato in Quezon City, Philippines.[23][24]
The installation of the new Patriarch completed the succession process following the death of former Patriarch John Florentine L. Teruel.
Patriarch Juan Almario is also listed as one of the World's current Patriarchs.
Beliefs and Tradition
The Apostolic Catholic Church, like Independent Catholic Churches, Believes, Teaches, and Follows Catholic teachings and Theology.[25] Although, there are some of its Doctrines that still differs from the Mainstream Cathol
The Apostolic Catholic Church believes in the traditional idea of the Catholic Church[26]
Conservative Church, which maintains ancient church traditions removed by the Second Vatican council[27]
follows Catholic teachings and theologies[28]
Saints
The Apostolic Catholic Church follows the doctrine of having saints and holy people based on what they have done when they are still living. Similar to the Episcopal Church and the Anglican Communion, it recognizes all the Roman Catholic and Orthodox saints. Currently, there is only one saint beatified by the ACC Patriarch.
St. Maria Virginia Peñaflor Leonzon
mother of the Church and the Patriarch, Dr. John Florentine L. Teruel, PP. She is the honorary foundress of Apostolic Catholic Church and its Curcillo Movement. Having a high status of spiritual life, she was beatified and canonized as a saint in 1995 by the Patriarch. Because of this, St. Maria Virginia P. Leonzon became the first Filipino non-Roman Catholic saint. All the members of the church congregation believe that St. Maria Virginia P. Leonzon is the Covenant of the Holy Spirit, Mahal na Ingkong and also the reincarnation of the Virgin Mary. When she is still alive, St. Maria Virginia is a living saint for all the ACC members. She died at 83 years old in Sacrifice Valley in 2005.
Ecumenical relations
The Apostolic Catholic Church maintains relationships and has linkages to the National Council of Churches in the Philippines[29], the Canadian Council of Churches[30], Eastern Orthodox and Old Catholic Churches[31], and to the Roman Catholic Church.[32]
References
- ^ National Council of Churches in the Philippines. "Our Member Churches". Retrieved 13 March 2012.
- ^ "Apostolic church patriarch and founding bishop". The Manila Times. 2021-07-31. Retrieved 2021-11-11.
- ^ "Apostolic Catholic Church". Religion Wiki. Retrieved 2022-08-19.
- ^ Alexandria, Apo Almiro De (2011-11-13). "MAHAL NA INGKONG: History of the Apostolic Catholic Church". MAHAL NA INGKONG. Retrieved 2022-08-19.
- ^ a b c d e "Our Member Churches". Retrieved 2022-03-30.
- ^ "abs-cbnNEWS.com - The Correspondents". web.archive.org. 2006-02-21. Retrieved 2022-08-19.
- ^ "APOSTOLIC CATHOLIC CHURCH: AN ETHNOHISTORY OF A SOCIAL MOVEM". prezi.com. Retrieved 2022-08-19.
- ^ "About | Apostolic Catholic Church Of Canada". www.acc-canada.com. Retrieved 2022-07-19.
- ^ a b "ACC Website Staging". ACC Website Staging. Retrieved 2022-03-30.
- ^ "Ingkong (THE Holy Spirit)". Acc-ingkong.com. Archived from the original on 2011-10-08. Retrieved 2011-09-19.
- ^ "Apostolic Catholic Church installs new Patriarch". ACC Website Staging. Retrieved 2022-03-30.
- ^ "Apostolic Catholic Church (Philippines) - Alchetron, the free social encyclopedia". Alchetron.com. 2017-08-18. Retrieved 2022-08-19.
- ^ "Autocephaly", Wikipedia, 2022-06-29, retrieved 2022-08-19
- ^ "About | Apostolic Catholic Church Of Canada". www.acc-canada.com. Retrieved 2022-08-19.
- ^ "Apostolic church patriarch and founding bishop". The Manila Times. 2021-07-31. Retrieved 2022-08-19.
- ^ "Apostolic church patriarch and founding bishop". The Manila Times. 2021-07-31. Retrieved 2022-08-19.
- ^ "PATRIARCH". ACC Website Staging. 2021-02-15. Retrieved 2022-08-19.
- ^ "Patriarch Dr John Florentine Teruel, P.P. (1950-2021)". www.acc-canada.com. Retrieved 2022-08-19.
- ^ "Patriarch Dr John Florentine Teruel, P.P. (1950-2021)". www.acc-canada.com. Retrieved 2022-08-19.
- ^ "Patriarch Dr John Florentine Teruel, P.P. (1950-2021)". www.acc-canada.com. Retrieved 2022-08-19.
- ^ "Our Member Churches". Retrieved 2022-08-19.
- ^ "The Patriarch". web.archive.org. 2011-10-29. Retrieved 2022-08-19.
- ^ "PATRIARCH". ACC Website Staging. 2021-02-15. Retrieved 2022-08-19.
- ^ "PressReader.com - Digital Newspaper & Magazine Subscriptions". www.pressreader.com. Retrieved 2022-08-19.
- ^ "Apostolic Catholic Church". Religion Wiki. Retrieved 2022-08-19.
- ^ "abs-cbnNEWS.com - The Correspondents". web.archive.org. 2006-02-21. Retrieved 2022-08-19.
- ^ "Apostolic Catholic Church". Religion Wiki. Retrieved 2022-08-19.
- ^ "Apostolic Catholic Church". Religion Wiki. Retrieved 2022-08-19.
- ^ "Our Member Churches". Retrieved 2022-08-19.
- ^ "Members - The Canadian Council of Churches". https://www.councilofchurches.ca/. 2021-03-16. Retrieved 2022-08-19.
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