The Liberal Catholic Apostolic Church

"The appeal of the ...Church is universal in the true sense of the term. We do not mind whether a man is a Roman Catholic, Eastern Orthodox, Anglo-Catholic, Evangelical, Anglican, Free-Churchman, Spiritualist, or even a Moslem, Buddhist, or Hindoo, or for that matter an Atheist or Agnostic. All alike are the children of God, and as such, our brothers and sisters, and are fully entitled to all our love and help. Christ Himself said that He had come to give us life, and that more abundantly!  and it is our task to free men’s minds from that narrow-minded bigotry and intolerance which disfigures religion. Through such misleading teachings men live in constant fear of disease, war, calamity, and death. It is our task to prove that all illness can be cured by the Spirit in the power of Divine Love, working through human instruments replete with that love; and that by the same power even war itself can be averted. Our appeal, then, is to all sorts and conditions of men and women, irrespective of age, sex, social position, race, colour or creed. To the spiritually homeless, that is, those without a Church, we offer a wonderful home; and to those who are already attached to other Churches, we say “do not desert your Priest, Vicar or Minister, but come here when you feel like it, and thus gain some spiritual strength and light, with which you can help him when you return to your usual place of worship.” - Archbishop Harold Nicholson

The Liberal Catholic Apostolic Church (LCAC) is the present-day custodian of a tradition of inclusive independent Christian liberalism whose immediate origins are to be found in the early years of the twentieth-century and whose ultimate antecedents are in the pre-Constantinian church. It is charged with the continuation of the ministry of Archbishop Harold Nicholson (Mar Joannes I) (1905-68), one of the most significant of the independent Catholic clergy of the last century.

Unlike many churches, the LCAC is non-dogmatic in nature, standing firmly in the esoteric and Christian humanist traditions, and is open to the insights of all faiths and philosophies. This openness means that the Liberal Catholic Apostolic Church has a unique spiritual character and appeal, and that its mission reaches beyond conventional boundaries to embrace a genuine universality. We see our work as firmly grounded in the wish of Jesus Christ that His church strive to attain unity in the face of its differences, and thus conceive the LCAC as a primarily ecumenical mission church.

The LCAC derives its Apostolic Successions from the historic Churches of the East and West, and principally the successions of the Apostolic Episcopal Church as conveyed by its Emeritus Primate, Archbishop Bertil Persson, to the Bishops of the LCAC. The LCAC has significant ties with the historic Liberal Catholic movement and is spiritual protector of the worldwide Independent Liberal Catholic Fellowship.

The Liberal Catholic Apostolic Church is a member of the Independent Catholic Churches Council (ICCC).  Many of its members are part of the Independent Liberal Catholic Fellowship and its bishops are members of the Sophia Circle.