The Open Episcopal Church

We want to connect to others and help build positive relationships in society based on justice, truth and love

Our connecting space presents a viable alternative to the growing tide of fundamentalism by offering love to all, regardless of race, colour, creed or sexuality. Like Jesus, we reach out to all, providing a true experience of christian relationship, compassion and care.

The hope of The Open Episcopal Church is to be an oasis on the journey of life, a meeting place, an experience of acceptance and freindship in a sometimes lonely and brutal world.

We are not in any way fundamentalist.

So, why do our Apostolic priesthood and our Christian theology and traditions matter?

We have a mandate inherited through the succession of laying on of hands from the first apostles. For the rejected and marginalised we can offer a valid space which will not turn you away from the sacraments simply because you are a sinner, for we are all sinners.

Everyone is welcome. You have a church every bit as "valid" and every bit as "Christian" in liturgy and tradition, although what is distinctive, is we draw upon every tradition and every resource and are confident also to create our own and receive the blessings of other faiths and philosophies too.

But, more than this, we have a mandate for all the disposessed, and all those who have been hurt by their experience of other groups.