Christ the King?  Why ‘the King’?  Because Jesus came to proclaim and initiate ‘the kingdom of God’ on earth, beginning God’s work of re-creation and goodness among us – restoring relationships, teaching true spirituality, highlighting beauty, and bringing justice.  Christ the King Anglican seeks to live out in Albuquerque this kingdom of faith, now our home country (from Ephesians 2.19).

Christ the King Anglican announced its formation on September 27, 2009, and worshiped together for the first time on October 4.  The congregation is made up of people from many different church or non-church backgrounds drawn together in Christian faith and in their love of the living words of faith as expressed in the Bible and in the beauty of Anglican liturgy as found in The Book of Common Prayer.  It is a parish of the Anglican Church in North America (Archbishop Robert Duncan) in the Diocese of the Holy Spirit led by Bishop John Guernsey, also rector of All Saints’ Church, Dale City, VA. 

 

The church is Biblically orthodox (an exciting thing!), holding to the ancient summaries of the Christian faith as found in the Apostles and Nicene Creeds.  It is part of the worldwide Anglican Communion, which traces its part in church history and tradition to the early church through the Anglican Church, formed in England in the sixteenth century.