Our Core Beliefs

As our mission statement says we as a diocese are seeking to build Biblically faithful, Gospel sharing, Anglican churches. And this can tell you a lot about our core beliefs. Here’s a little more detail.

We are Christian

As Christians have for millennia, we believe that the Bible is God’s word written and that the gospel of Jesus Christ contained in it is God’s amazing means of salvation. You can read more about what we believe about Christianity and the Gospel here.

We embrace Anglican Orthodoxy

We are committed to the foundational principles and historic standard of the Anglican tradition in Canada.

Members of our diocese embrace Anglican orthodoxy – the Biblically-faithful, authentically-Anglican way of following Jesus and being part of the “One Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church”. This orthodoxy is defined by and centered on the classic formularies – or foundational principles of the Anglican tradition in Canada.

You can read more about our diocesan mission and vision here.

We affirm the Jerusalem Declaration

As members of the global Fellowship of Confessing Anglicans, we affirm the Jerusalem Declaration (2008). And as a diocese in the Anglican Church in North America we affirm ACNA’s theological statement.

We affirm the founding principles of the Anglican traditions in Canada

We are committed to the foundational principles and historic standards of the Anglican tradition in Canada, including a commitment to:   
 

• The supreme authority of the teaching of Holy Scripture

• The Book of Common Prayer as the standard of doctrine and worship

• The Ordinal (with its preface)

• The Thirty-nine Articles of Religion (as affirmed by the Lambeth Conference of 1968)

• The Solemn Declaration of 1893 (BCP page viii) – The founding declaration of Anglicanism in Canada

Our members believe in:

• The supreme authority of the teaching of Holy Scripture as understood within the doctrinal formularies of historical Anglicanism, specifically, the Book of Common Prayer, the Thirty-nine Articles, the Ordinal and the Solemn

• Declaration of 1893.

• The triune nature of the one God, and the personal divinity of the Lord Jesus Christ.

• The sinfulness of each and every person and the universal need of salvation.

• The sinless life, atoning death, bodily resurrection and ascension, heavenly reign and future return in glory of the Lord Jesus Christ.

• The essential realities of salvation encompassing the forgiveness of sins through justification, regeneration and adoption into the Father’s family, union and communion with Jesus Christ and the personal indwelling of the Holy Spirit, the practice of holiness, moral transformation into the image of Christ, and the future resurrection of the body for eternal life.

• The preaching of the Word of God, the fellowship of the church, the ministry of the sacraments, and personal prayer – as the principal means of God’s grace.

You can read more about our mission, vision and values here: About Us

You can read about some of stances on issues here: Our Stances