Welcome to the website of the ECC UK
from presiding Bishop,
+Terry Flynn.
"If it is the search for a Spiritual home that brings you our way then our promise is that we will do all we can to help you find that home. If you should come to feel that such a home is here you will be welcomed with open arms - if it is not you will be helped to move on in the search with prayer and blessings."
We are an 'ever growing' worldwide community, seeking to make known the love of Jesus Christ to all, and we do not discriminate on the basis of gender, marital or social status, race, economic ability, orientation or other baseless form of discrimination.
I believe it was Mahatma Gandhi who said (Although some hold it is a Native American saying) that "to know a man it is necessary to walk a mile in his shoes" – we invite you to walk with us as far as it takes you to know us, whoever first said it.
We welcome all the baptised to the altar of Christ and refuse communion to no-one who approaches reverently. Christ did not refuse to feed the physically or spiritually hungry - neither do we.
We are human however and sometimes slip on the aspirations we set ourselves. We are not yet all that God would want us to be but hopefully we have made a start to "listen to what the Holy Spirit is saying to the Churches." (Rev 3:22)
The Ecumenical Catholic Church of the UK (ECCUK) was founded in November 2001 by Bishop Terry Flynn as an all inclusive part of the One Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church founded on the Apostles by Jesus Christ and as a sister communion of the Ecumenical Catholic Church of Australia.
At Pentecost 2002 the ECCUK was one of the founding jurisdictions of the United Ecumenical Catholic Church (UECC). In 2009 an informal decision was taken to change the word “Catholic” to Christian in the usage of the ECCUK in order to present a more clearly understandable inclusivity and distinction from the common usage of “Catholic” where the meaning is “Roman Catholic”; however the constitution remains unchanged in the name of Ecumenical Catholic Church UK.
Both ECCUK and UECC are formally and legally constituted and, under all three names incorporated at Companies House. UECC as the umbrella jurisdiction is also registered internationally as a charity.