Forward in Faith

St Paul the Apostle, Tottenham, is in the Catholic tradition of the Church of England and is a Forward in Faith parish. This means that we continue to teach the Catholic faith as the Church of England has received it.

Mission Statement

• We Affirm the Faith of the Church as revealed in Scripture and Tradition;
  
• We Proclaim our Faith through the Creeds, the Sacraments and the apostolic ministry of bishops and priests of the Universal Church;
  
• We seek a Guaranteed Ecclesial Structure in which we can pass the Faith on to our children and grandchildren;
  
• We have a vision for Unity and Truth and we are going Forward in Faith..

Why We Exist

• Forward in Faith is a worldwide association of Anglicans who are unable in conscience to accept the ordination of women as priests or as bishops.
  
• Forward in Faith is opposed to the ordination of women to the priesthood and the episcopate for three simple reasons.
  
• First, it is a practice contrary to the scriptures as they have been consistently interpreted by the two thousand year tradition of the churches of both East and West.
  
• Second, we hold that the ordination of women by individual provinces of the Anglican Communion, without inter-provincial agreement or consensus, is a schismatic act, impairing communion between provinces by subverting the interchangeability and mutual recognition of orders between them.
  
• Third, mindful of the unity for which Our Lord prayed on the night before he died, we are bound to repudiate an action which has willfully placed a new and serious obstacle in the way of reconciliation and full visible unity between Anglicans and the Roman Catholic and Orthodox churches.