The English Catholic Communion was established on Pentecost Sunday, May 19, A.D. 2024.

 

The purpose of the English Catholic Communion is to provide episcopal protection and oversight for Catholic believers and organizations—Churches, parishes, Religious Orders and other ecclesiastical organizations—who are not aligned with the Roman, Anglican or Orthodox Communions.

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It is led by the Most Reverend Doctor Scott McLaughlin. Archbishop McLaughlin authorized the founding of the Communion at the request of clergy and laity in the United States as well as from Central and South America, Africa and Europe.

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The standards for doctrine and practice of the English Catholic Communion are found in the English translations of the Sarum rites, which are both Pre-reformation and Pre-Tridentine. The Sarum Missal was used for celebrating Mass in England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland, as well as parts of France and Portugal, for over 500 years prior to the reformation. However, the Communion also recognizes the liturgical traditions of its member jurisdictions, such as use of the Anglican Missal of 1921, the American Missal of 1952, the first Prayer Book of 1549, the Old Catholic rites, Eastern liturgies as well as the Extraordinary Form of the Roman Rite.

 

The Communion is traditional and conservative in doctrine and practice.