Anglican Communion
Grace Church is a
parish community of the
Diocese of Perth of the
Anglican Church of
Australia, a constituent
province of the Anglican
Communion of Churches.
Anglican Churches are
Christian communities in
communion with the
Archbishop of Canterbury.
There are some eighty
million Anglicans
worldwide. As part of
the one, holy, catholic
and apostolic Church of
Jesus Christ, we trace
our heritage back to the
first Easter. At the
16th century
reformation, the English
reforms sought to
rediscover the purity of
the catholic church of
the ages, deliberately
choosing a “via media”
between Roman
Catholicism on the one
hand and continental
Protestantism on the
other.
Anglicanism is not
confessional in the
sense of subscribing to
any particular
confession of faith
apart from the catholic
creeds. Anglican
doctrine is enshrined in
The Book of Common
Prayer (1662), the
Articles of Religion,
and the
Ordinal. A
characteristic Anglican
tag is
“comprehensiveness for
the sake of truth, not
compromise for the sake
of peace”.
Anglicanism has
always been a broad
church, encompassing all
shades of churchmanship
and many different
styles of worship.
Grace Church
Joondalup subscribes to
the principles of
Inclusive Church,
seeking to preserve and
celebrate the diversity
in unity which has
always been the hallmark
of genuine Anglicanism.
Week by week we pray for
those who guide and
govern the church -
Rowan Williams,
Archbishop of
Canterbury; Phillip
Aspinall, Primate of
Australia and Archbishop
of Brisbane; Roger Herft,
Archbishop of Perth, and
his assistant bishops
Mark Burton and Tom
Willmot. We pray also
for Benedict XVI, Bishop
of Rome; Bartholomew,
Ecumenical Patriarch of
Constantinople; and
leaders of all other
churches. |
