The Bartonville Agreement

Back Row From Left:
ABP Herbert Groce, Anglican Rite Synod in the Americas; ABP Larry Shaver, Anglican Rite Synod in the Americas; BP Royal Grote, Reformed Episcopal Church; ABP Donald Perschall, American Anglican Church
Middle Row From Left:
BP Richard Boyce, Anglican Province of America; BP Ronald Johnson, Phillipine Independent Catholic Church
Front Row From Left:
ABP Robert Godfrey; ABP Louis Falk, Anglican Church in America; ABT Alberto Morales, St. Benedicts Abbey; ABP Walter Grundorf, Anglican Province of America; ABP Scott McLaughlin, The Orthodox Anglican Church

WHEREAS the American Anglican Church, the Anglican Church in America (with its sister Churches and Provinces in the Traditional Anglican Communion), the Anglican Province of America, the Anglican Rite Synod in the Americas, the Episcopal Missionary Church, and The Orthodox Anglican Church, adhere to the Old and New Testaments as the revealed Word of God; the Ecumenical Creeds; the Historic Episcopate; and the historic Anglican liturgies, and further adhere to the doctrine, discipline, and worship set forth in the Articles of Religion of 1801, the Chicago (1886), and Lambeth (1888) statements of the Lambeth Quadrilateral; BE IT UNDERSTOOD THAT:

Article 1. As evidence of our fellowship in Christ and the shared Standards of Faith existing between the above named Jurisdictions, a delegation of ministers and laymen may be sent as observers to each other's Synods and/or Conventions.

Article II. Clergy and/or congregations of the above named Jurisdictions shall not transfer their connection to the other without the mutual assent of the appropriate authority of said Jurisdictions.

Article Ill. The ecumenical officers of each Jurisdiction pledge to meet at least once a year to discuss ways of establishing a confederation of traditional Anglican Jurisdictions in the United States.

Article IV. Recognizing they are working together in the same great cause, and on the same basis, the above named Jurisdictions pledge to each other their mutual cooperation, sympathy, and support by agreeing to foster growing fellowship among their respective congregations through joint youth events, spiritual retreats, charitable initiatives, occasional worship services, and other godly activities.

Further, the Right Revd Royal Grote, the official Representative of the Reformed Episcopal Church, commends the signatory Jurisdictions above, and supports the spirit of these Articles of Ecclesiastical fellowship.