SUMMARY: “I CAN TRAIN YOU. ORDAIN YOU. SANCTIFY AND COMMISSION YOUR NEW OR PRESENT CHURCH OR BLESSED STRUCTURE UNDER A BISHOP. WE CAN OFFER IT JURIDICAL CANONS. WE CAN CONVALIDATE YOUR PRESENT OFFICE (TITLE) OR GIVE YOU A NEW AND BETTER ONE AND TAKE YOU AND YOUR PLACE OF WORSHIP INTO THE EEP/NE-TACA DIOCESE AND ITS ECUMENICAL PROVINCE.”
– Bishop Mike DellaVecchia
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Our classroom is located in beautiful Upper Bucks County, Pennsylvania, but we can make episcopal visits to your site, also. We can train you and consult with you and your co-worshipers in person here or via Zoom.
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“Take heed therefore unto yourselves, and to all the flock, over the which the Holy Ghost hath made you overseers, to feed the church of God, which he hath purchased with his own blood” (Acts 20:28).
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Bishop Mike DellaVecchia presides over the Northeast Diocese of Traditional Anglican Church of America. He is the builder and Rector of Saint
Patrick’s Anglican Church. He is the founder and Metropolitan of both the Ecumenical Diocesan Divinities Program of NE-TACA and of the Ecclesiastical Ecumenical Province and the author of this Web site. Serving under Archbishop Rick Aaron Reid of TACA, Bp. Mike is the author of numerous books on theology and church history, including the definitive interdenominational textbook, E.R.G.O. – Ecumenical Reference Guide Organizer. He is the author of all the writings, rulings, and research seen on this Web site (except wherever indicated).
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“Let nothing be done without the Bishop: See that you all follow the bishop, even as Jesus Christ does the Father, and the presbytery as you would the apostles; and reverence the deacons, as being the institution of God. Let no man do anything connected with the Church without the bishop. Let that be deemed a proper Eucharist, which is [administered] either by the bishop, or by one to whom he has entrusted it. Wherever the bishop shall appear, there let the multitude [of the people] also be; even as, wherever Jesus Christ is, there is the Catholic Church. It is not lawful without the bishop either to baptize or to celebrate a love-feast; but whatsoever he shall approve of, that is also pleasing to God, so that everything that is done may be secure and valid.” (Letter to the Smyrnaeans; Saint Ignatius of Antioch; Chap. 8; A.D.
110).