Can an American join the Church of England?

Question

I know that the Anglican church has various branchs across throught the world. An example of this is the american Episcoplain church. The Episcopalian church is a part of the Anglican Communion. What I would like to know is how would an American actually join the Church of England? Is this possible? What would I need to do to join? Are there any congragations of the Church of England in the U.S. ?

Answer 1

If you live there and want to go, why not?

But why would you? FInd an alive church?

Answer 2

There is no nationality requirement to join the Anglican Church. I believe there are a few churches in America that still identify as Anglican instead of Episcopalian. I imagine the difference is whether you see the British monarch as having any place in your church hierarchy.

Answer 3

As far as I know, there are no Church of England congregations in the US. However, all ACA branches are in full communion with the C of E. If you would like more information, check out http://www.acahome.org/ or ask at a local Anglican church.
All you would need to join is to indicate to the perish priest that you want to and to become confirmed within the Church.

BTW...the ACA is very much "alive."

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Answer 5

An American can join the church of Atheism. I don't know about England.

Answer 6

[This maybe more than what you were wanting . . .]

Short Answer
There is no such thing as "the american Episcoplain church" - The Episcopal Church (headquarted at 815 Second Avenue, NYC, NY) is a multinational province of the worldwide Anglican Communion with diocese streatching from the Artic Circle of Alaska to the equatorial Tropics of Ecuador and from Europe (including The American Cathedral in Paris) to Taiwan.

If you live in England the Church of England welcomes you. If you live in the US you'll have to settle for the The Episcopal Church (founded 4 July 1776 - organized 1784), which also welcomes you, or one of the parishes ran by one the Anglican provinces in Africa or South America. One is expected to live in the same area as the parish they attend and one is expected to show up every Sunday morning, unless one is on vacation or in hospital. In the case of the latter, just let the parish office know, and someone (clergy or pastoral care volunteer) will come visit you.

Long Answer
Well, you'd have to be living in England. It is sort of inconvient, and expensive, to fly across the pond every weekend to go to Mass. And we in the worldwide Anglican Communion do expect weekly attendance at worship. In the US there is The Episcopal Church (not Episcopalian - Episcopalians are the people who belong to the Episcopal Church) but we are not just in the US, we have dioceses from Alaska to Ecuador and from Europe to Taiwan. The Episcopal Church is one of the many provinces of the Anglican Communion around the world. There are other provinces that use the word Episcopal in their name - these include The Episcopal Church of Sudan, The Episcopal Church in Jerusalem and the Middle East, and The Episcopal Church of Scotland. The offical websites of The Episcopal Church are http://www.episcopalchurch.org/ and http://www.comeandgrow.org/. The official website of the Anglican Communion is http://www.anglicancommunion.org/. The official website of the Church of England is http://www.cofe.anglican.org/.

If you are indeed in England, please do go check out the different Church of England parishes near where you are. If you are already baptized then you can speak to the priest about being confirmed (if you have been confirmed - Roman Catholic or Lutheran or Orthodox for example - then you'd be recieved) and if you are not baptized, you'll need to speak to the priest about becoming a baptized member of the Church Catholic (as we call the entire lot of Christians regardless of denomination) before you can join the Church of England/The Episcopal Church/or any other part of the Anglican Communion.

If you are in the US, please do go to the Parish Finder at http://www.ecdplus.org/parish/ and find a the Episcopal Church parishes in your area and go check them out (If you are in a big urban area like NYC or LA or DFW - this could take a while). We have quite a diversity in liturgical worship styles. Some people like incense and chanted music while others prefer to worship sans-smells while singing more contemporary music. Some congregations are small and very much a place where everybody knows your name in no time at all, while others are huge congregations where one, especially if one is shy, can blend in easily. We have congregations that are mostly African-American, mostly Asian-American (there is one in San Francisco where they worship in Chinese and English), mostly Hispanic (some of these are bilingual parishes and some are Spanish speaking parishes), mostly white, and thanks be to God we also have ones that are very ethnically mixed (like the parish I belong to).

FYI - The Brits are notorious for not putting music in their hymnals, but just the words since "everyone" grows up singing the same songs. I hear this can drive people crazy if they need the notes to be able to sing. Also, the CofE prays for members of the Royal Family, while in the US we pray for the President and all those in civil authority. (In the parts of The Episcopal Church not in the US they pray for whoever is the head of state of their country and all those in civil authority.)

Lastly, there are "Anglican" parishes in the US that are not part of The Episcopal Church, most of these are connected to the Anglican provinces in Africa or South America. The Church of England hasn't had a parish in the US since we sent George III packing. The Episcopal Church in Scotland provided us with Bishops (see http://www.satucket.com/lectionary/Consecration_Seabury.htm), so we took the name of The Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America. (We've since outgrown that name due to the multinational spread of our dioceses as I mentioned earlier.) I've only known of one US parish to ever even have a Church of England priest and that was about 10 years ago in Oregon. He arrived in town shortly before Princess Diana died, so he got asked to do the local public prayer service because he was English. (His parish was one over from the one I belonged to when I lived in Oregon.)

Answer 7

Anybody can.
I was once in intensive care in hospital, possibly dying, when a guy came round to take my personal details such as next of kin etc.
When he got to religion I told him that I had no religion, meaning that I was an atheist.
He said " Well I'll put you down as Church of England then"
I had to insist that this was unacceptable to me.