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Orientation | Independent Catholic |
Polity | Episcopal |
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 | 5,000,000 (2009 estimate)[1] 10,000,000 (2015 estimate) |
Tertiary institutions | College of the Most Holy Trinity and Colegio de Santa Maria Virginia Leonzon[2] |
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.[3] The ACC has its origin as a Catholic organisation founded in the 1970s in Hermosa, Bataan.
History
Origin and establishment
The Apostolic Catholic Church started as a mainstream Catholic lay organization that was founded in Hermosa Bataan in the early 1970s by Maria Virginia P. Leonzon Vda. De Teruel.[4]
In 1991 the organisation and the Roman Catholic Church had a schism; due to varying 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 had already spread throughout the Philippines, Hong Kong, Australia, Canada and the United States of America.[4]
John Florentine Teruel 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).[5]
The church's co-founder and spiritual leader, Patriarch Bishop John Florentine ordained several men throughout the Philippines and America to become priests and deacons.[4] Teruel died on 19 January 2021.[6]
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.[6][7]
He is also listed as one of the World's Current Patriarchs.
Present day
The Apostolic Catholic 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.[4]
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 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.[9][6] The Apostolic Catholic Church estimates it has more than 5 million members and has 192 congregations, all over the world.[4]
Ecumenical relations
The ACC is part of the National Council of Churches in the Philippines[4] and the Canadian Council of Churches.[11]
References
- ^ National Council of Churches in the Philippines. "Our Member Churches". Retrieved 13 March 2012.
- ^ {{Cite web|https://web.archive.org/web/20111029044238/http://acc-ingkong.com/content/view/1/2/
- ^ "Apostolic church patriarch and founding bishop". The Manila Times. 2021-07-31. Retrieved 2021-11-11.
- ^ a b c d e f "Our Member Churches". Retrieved 2022-03-30.
- ^ "The Patriarch". ACC Ingkong. Archived from the original on 2011-10-29. Retrieved 2022-07-20.
- ^ a b c "Apostolic Catholic Church installs new Patriarch". ACC Website Staging. Retrieved 2022-03-30.
- ^ "MARIAN FESTIVAL CULMINATES TODAY". Philippine Daily Inquirer. 27 July 2019. Retrieved 2022-07-19 – via pressreader.
- ^ "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.
- ^ "Members". The Canadian Council of Churches. 2021-03-16. Retrieved 2022-08-15.