roman catholic
My faith journey began in the Roman Catholic Church.
I was brought up as a Roman Catholic.
I left the Church of England, and stepped down from General Synod, and was for ten years Dean of St. Paul's Anglican Cathedral Nicosia, in the Province of Jerusalem and the Middle East being closely connected with the Roman Catholic and Orthodox Churches.
I grew up in my local middle-of-the-road Anglican church where I now serve most months, but my faith was nurtured through the Roman Catholic chaplaincy at university and later kindled at a charismatic evangelical Methodist church.
I value and wish to promote further ecumenical dialogue with the Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox churches.
I visit the sick, the elderly to anoint and to give them the eucharist and have participated in volunteer work with the Roman Catholic Church in Istanbul.
I grew up in Northern Ireland as a Presbyterian, in a family with Presbyterian, Anglican and Roman Catholic roots.
He is a Roman Catholic and I have learnt so much from him and the RC church (but am still happy to be Anglican!).
I was brought up in an inter-church family (my dad was a curate in Sunbury-on-Thames and my mum is a Roman Catholic), and spent my childhood in a mix of Roman Catholic, Anglo Catholic, Evangelical and more Central churches.
I was brought up in the Roman Catholic Church, and the decisive turn in my journey towards Anglicanism came in 1996, when I spent three months at a mission in Venezuela.
Roman Catholic, and Orthodox
Roman Catholic and Orthodox ecclesiastical
charasmatic expressions, Roman Catholic, Church of Scotland, Cathedrals and high churches, meaning that I not only value but champion the breadth of worship within the church as I have encountered God in all of it and pray for its flourishing.
Five Guiding Principles agreed in 2014, and it requires honesty and integrity in respecting the differences between different parts of the Church, not least in dialogue with our ecumenical partners such as the Roman Catholic and Orthodox Churches.
As such, I’m an ‘Oy Vey, Maria’, but baptised and confirmed in the Roman Catholic church.
Baptist, United Reformed, Roman Catholic and
Chesterton (who, of course, denominationally was a Roman Catholic) “These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.” If we do worship the one true God, let’s tell people about Him.
My context I was received into the Church of England in 2018 from the Roman Catholic Church.
The Eucharist, the Examen and imaginative contemplation are just some of the practices that connect my Anglicanism with my Roman Catholic background.
My own faith journey began in a God-fearing Roman Catholic family, but moving to England was the catalyst that prompted a personal exploration of my beliefs.
One side of my family are Roman Catholic (on my father’s side) and the other side are Lutheran (on my mother’s side), and I was baptised in a Lutheran church; as a teenager, I was confirmed as a Roman Catholic.
I grew up in Italy within a Roman Catholic background.
I work ecumenically with Methodist friends and our local Roman Catholic school, and supported the launch and continuing operation of our ‘Welcome Café’, now regularly welcoming 50-80 people each week in our small parish.
Before ordination, I was Director of Katherine House, a prayer and spirituality centre owned by Roman Catholic Sisters and visited by a wide variety of people.
I worked for many years with the Jesuits, a Roman Catholic order, facilitating a gap year for young people who worked with various charities with marginalised people in Britain I’ve lived in the diocese since 2006.
While I’m part of the Liberal Catholic tradition of the Church of England, I have a broad experience in my own faith background having grown up a Roman Catholic and rediscovering my faith in my late teens in a conservative evangelical church.
Raised in a faithful and loving Roman Catholic family, my faith came alive in my mid teens, and by God’s grace, continues to grow and develop.
Before ordination, I completed a BA in Theology and a PGCE, spending a decade teaching Religion and Ethics in multi-faith and Roman Catholic settings.
I grew up with a Roman Catholic mother and an Anglican father, and one of my earliest faith memories was asking my father why he, as a protestant, always said he believed in ‘one holy Catholic church’.
I spent the next several decades in the Roman Catholic church, occasionally worshipping in other churches, and enjoying the differences of opinion that come from communication with people of other denominations.
Before moving to England, I worshipped with our Porvoo Communion partners in the Church of Sweden (where this Diocese has an official link with the Diocese of Harndsand) and I have also, through friendships and an Ecumenical Placement while at Cranmer Hall, had significant contact with the Roman Catholic Church.
I grew up in the Roman Catholic Church, and it was there I first came to faith.
I attended a Church of England primary school and later a Roman Catholic sixth form.
Christian summer camps were a highlight of my adolescence and offered space to ask difficult questions, and Roman Catholic retreats as a young adult introduced me to the beauty of liturgy.
ordination, I was an RE teacher in one of The Bible passage which has Liverpool’s Roman Catholic secondary followed me throughout my walk schools, and a youth minister, working with Jesus is Ezekiel 37 - The with young people from across the local Valley of Dry Bones, reminding estates and beyond.
When I got my first job in Hereford I stayed for two years with Roman Catholic cousins, attending M ass with them from time to time.
Family circumstances have taken me to Innsbruck, where there is as yet no Anglican congregation, so I am, at least for now, teaching in a Roman Catholic faculty and developing ecumenical links by worshipping regularly outside the C of E.
Roman Catholic in rural Northern
The inclusion of LGBTQI+ people in the CofE was the main reasons I left the Roman Catholic Church.
I grew up in Stalybridge in the Roman Catholic Church.
At the age of 27 I was attending a service of Ordination into the Roman Catholic Priesthood, and I heard my call to ordination, although I did not understand it.
I have worked closely with free churches as well as the Roman Catholic Church and Orthodox Churches.
I shared religious life for several years with a Roman Catholic community living a contemplative life in the heart of everyday life and work.
My life as a Christian and my work as a theologian has been shaped and enriched by working with lay and ordained members of other Christian denominations, most importantly the Methodist Church and the Roman Catholic Church.
I’ve been involved in churches all my life, and have encountered Christ at work in contexts as diverse as the Roman Catholic parish where I was raised, through non-denominational charismatic gatherings, to the quiet rhythms of a college chapel.
Although a lifelong Anglican, I have had the privilege of studying at a Roman Catholic sixth form college, working in two Ecumenical charities, leading the Northwest Christian Fellowship at Barnardo’s and working for Methodist Homes.
As to other "headline "matters, I am in favour of ecumenism (our church is one of a small handful of mediaeval churches with formal sharing agreements in place with the local Roman Catholic congregation).
I have experience of the wider Anglican Communion from my time as a teenager living in Kenya as a missionary family with MAF, and I have represented Anglicanism at a Roman Catholic seminary as an ordinand on an ecumenical placement.
Deeply Passionate about working ecumenically, as an Anglican and Roman Catholic with many demonisations.
At twenty-five, I became a Roman Catholic driven by the spiritual and sacramental side of the Roman Cathcolic Church.