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Spanish Reformed Episcopal Church
The Spanish Reformed Episcopal Church, also translated as Reformed Episcopal Church of Spain, or IERE (Spanish: Iglesia Española Reformada Episcopal) is the church of the Anglican Communion in Spain. It was founded in 1880 and since 1980 has been an extra-provincial church under the metropolitan authority of the Archbishop of Canterbury. In 2016, a quantitative study of Anglicanism published in the Journal of Anglican Studies, by Cambridge University Press, reported that the church claims 5,000 total members. In 2017, Growth and Decline in the Anglican Communion: 1980 to the Present, published by Routledge, collected research reporting there were 11,800 Episcopalians in Spain. Its cathedral is the Anglican Cathedral of the Redeemer in Madrid.
In keeping with the rest of mainstream Anglicanism, the IERE claims itself to be part of the One Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church established by Christ and his apostles. It claims to maintain apostolic succession via the Church of Ireland's bishops and it holds to the threefold ministry of bishops, priests and deacons. It keeps the three creeds of the Primitive Church.
The IERE also claims itself to morally be the continuing church of the ancient pre-Spanish church by maintaining the sacramental system as handed down through the Mozarabic Rite. Due to its Reformed tradition, some[who?] would say this is largely a church that places itself within the confines of the Evangelical stream of Anglicanism.[citation needed]
The Spanish Reformed Episcopal Church was formed "being born of individuals who left the Church of Rome for reasons of Biblical conscience but desired epsicopacy and an ordered vernacular liturgy for which Anglicanism provided the original precedent." The IERE considers its origin to be in 1868 when the "Consistorio General de la Iglesia en España" (General Consistory of the Church in Spain) was formed by Juan Bautista Cabrera in Gibraltar.
The IERE was officially organised in 1880 by Cabrera, a former Catholic priest, and other former Catholic priests and Reformed ministers. In 1878 he had requested the Church of England to consecrate a bishop. In 1880 the (Anglican) Episcopal Church in the United States sent a missionary-bishop from Mexico to visit Spain and Portugal and contributed in organising the congregations into the IERE and the Lusitanian Catholic Apostolic Evangelical Church, each with its own synodical government.
At the synod of 1880, Cabrera was elected the first bishop of the IERE, under the pastoral care of William Plunket, 4th Baron Plunket, then Bishop of Meath and later Archbishop of Dublin. He had been interested in the two Iberian churches and determined to act to consecrate a bishop in Spain. The church remained without a bishop for a time after Cabrera died in 1916 and was placed under the authority of the Church of Ireland. For a lengthy period from 1935 to 1951 there was not a single episcopal visit to Spain. Fernando Cabrera, son of the church's first bishop, was elected to be the next bishop, but he died in 1954 before being consecrated. Fernando Cabrera served as rector of the Cathedral of the Redeemer for close to a half-century.
The IERE experienced persecution during the regime of General Francisco Franco. Prior to Franco's regime, beginning in the 1850s, the majority of the residents of Villaescusa belonged to the Episcopal Church, but, in 1936, the Franco government seized the church's building and the congregation declined. In 1954, Santos M. Molina was consecrated as a bishop. The consecration took place behind closed doors at his parish church in Seville. The ordaining bishops were from County Meath in Ireland and two bishops from the United States—Reginald Mallett from the Episcopal Diocese of Northern Indiana and Stephen Keeler from the Episcopal Diocese of Minnesota. Under Molina the church experienced a resurgence. During his episcopate the IERE signed agreements of intercommunion with numerous provinces of the Anglican Communion, including the Episcopal Church in the United States, the Church of Ireland, the Church of England, the Church in Wales, the Anglican Church of South Africa, the Episcopal Church of the Philippines and the Old Catholic Church.
In 1980 the IERE became an extra-provincial diocese under the metropolitan authority of the Archbishop of Canterbury.
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Spanish Reformed Episcopal Church
The Spanish Reformed Episcopal Church, also translated as Reformed Episcopal Church of Spain, or IERE (Spanish: Iglesia Española Reformada Episcopal) is the church of the Anglican Communion in Spain. It was founded in 1880 and since 1980 has been an extra-provincial church under the metropolitan authority of the Archbishop of Canterbury. In 2016, a quantitative study of Anglicanism published in the Journal of Anglican Studies, by Cambridge University Press, reported that the church claims 5,000 total members. In 2017, Growth and Decline in the Anglican Communion: 1980 to the Present, published by Routledge, collected research reporting there were 11,800 Episcopalians in Spain. Its cathedral is the Anglican Cathedral of the Redeemer in Madrid.
In keeping with the rest of mainstream Anglicanism, the IERE claims itself to be part of the One Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church established by Christ and his apostles. It claims to maintain apostolic succession via the Church of Ireland's bishops and it holds to the threefold ministry of bishops, priests and deacons. It keeps the three creeds of the Primitive Church.
The IERE also claims itself to morally be the continuing church of the ancient pre-Spanish church by maintaining the sacramental system as handed down through the Mozarabic Rite. Due to its Reformed tradition, some[who?] would say this is largely a church that places itself within the confines of the Evangelical stream of Anglicanism.[citation needed]
The Spanish Reformed Episcopal Church was formed "being born of individuals who left the Church of Rome for reasons of Biblical conscience but desired epsicopacy and an ordered vernacular liturgy for which Anglicanism provided the original precedent." The IERE considers its origin to be in 1868 when the "Consistorio General de la Iglesia en España" (General Consistory of the Church in Spain) was formed by Juan Bautista Cabrera in Gibraltar.
The IERE was officially organised in 1880 by Cabrera, a former Catholic priest, and other former Catholic priests and Reformed ministers. In 1878 he had requested the Church of England to consecrate a bishop. In 1880 the (Anglican) Episcopal Church in the United States sent a missionary-bishop from Mexico to visit Spain and Portugal and contributed in organising the congregations into the IERE and the Lusitanian Catholic Apostolic Evangelical Church, each with its own synodical government.
At the synod of 1880, Cabrera was elected the first bishop of the IERE, under the pastoral care of William Plunket, 4th Baron Plunket, then Bishop of Meath and later Archbishop of Dublin. He had been interested in the two Iberian churches and determined to act to consecrate a bishop in Spain. The church remained without a bishop for a time after Cabrera died in 1916 and was placed under the authority of the Church of Ireland. For a lengthy period from 1935 to 1951 there was not a single episcopal visit to Spain. Fernando Cabrera, son of the church's first bishop, was elected to be the next bishop, but he died in 1954 before being consecrated. Fernando Cabrera served as rector of the Cathedral of the Redeemer for close to a half-century.
The IERE experienced persecution during the regime of General Francisco Franco. Prior to Franco's regime, beginning in the 1850s, the majority of the residents of Villaescusa belonged to the Episcopal Church, but, in 1936, the Franco government seized the church's building and the congregation declined. In 1954, Santos M. Molina was consecrated as a bishop. The consecration took place behind closed doors at his parish church in Seville. The ordaining bishops were from County Meath in Ireland and two bishops from the United States—Reginald Mallett from the Episcopal Diocese of Northern Indiana and Stephen Keeler from the Episcopal Diocese of Minnesota. Under Molina the church experienced a resurgence. During his episcopate the IERE signed agreements of intercommunion with numerous provinces of the Anglican Communion, including the Episcopal Church in the United States, the Church of Ireland, the Church of England, the Church in Wales, the Anglican Church of South Africa, the Episcopal Church of the Philippines and the Old Catholic Church.
In 1980 the IERE became an extra-provincial diocese under the metropolitan authority of the Archbishop of Canterbury.
