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, slogan = , logo = , footnotes = The Spanish Reformed Episcopal Church, also translated as Reformed Episcopal Church of Spain, or IERE ( es, Iglesia Española Reformada Episcopal) is the church of the
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. It was founded in 1880 and since 1980 has been an extra-provincial church under the metropolitan authority of the
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. Its cathedral is the
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in Madrid.


Doctrine

In keeping with the rest of mainstream
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, the IERE considers itself to be part of the
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established by Christ and his apostles. It claims to maintain
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via the
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's bishops and it holds to the threefold ministry of
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s,
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s and
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s. It keeps the three creeds of the Primitive Church. The IERE considers itself to morally be the
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of the ancient pre-Spanish Church by maintaining the
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al system as handed down through the Mozarabic Rite. Due to its Reformed tradition, some would say this is largely a Church that places itself within the confines of the Evangelical stream of Anglicanism.


History

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 Juan Bautista Cabrera Ibarz (sometimes spelled Ivars; 23 April 1837 – 18 May 1916) was the founding bishop of the Spanish Reformed Episcopal Church, originally the Spanish Reformed Church. He was also a Freemason, poet, theologian and translat ...
in
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. The IERE was officially organised in 1880 by Cabrera, a former
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, and other former Catholic priests and Reformed ministers. In 1878 he had requested the
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to consecrate a bishop. In 1880 the (Anglican)
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sent a missionary-bishop of
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to visit Spain and
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and contributed in organizing the congregations into the IERE and the
Lusitanian Catholic Apostolic Evangelical Church The Lusitanian Catholic Apostolic Evangelical Church ( pt, Igreja Lusitana Católica Apostólica Evangélica) in Portugal is a member church of the Anglican Communion. Membership The church has around 5,000 members. Structure As an Episcopal den ...
, each with its own
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ical government. At the Synod of 1880, Cabrera was elected the first bishop of the IERE, under the pastoral care of
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, then
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and later
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. 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
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. 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
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for close to a half-century. The IERE experienced persecution during the
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of General
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. 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 in
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. The ordaining bishops were from Meath in
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, and two bishops from the
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—Bishop Reginald Mallett from the
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and Bishop
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from the
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. Under Molina the church experienced a resurgence. During the episcopate of Molina the IERE signed agreements of intercommunion with numerous provinces of the Anglican Communion, including
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, the
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, the
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, the
Church in Wales The Church in Wales ( cy, Yr Eglwys yng Nghymru) is an Anglicanism, Anglican church in Wales, composed of six dioceses. The Archbishop of Wales does not have a fixed archiepiscopal see, but serves concurrently as one of the six diocesan bishop ...
, the
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, the
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, and the
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. In 1980 the IERE became an extra-provincial diocese under the metropolitan authority of the
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.


Bishops of the IERE

* Rev.
Juan Bautista Cabrera Juan Bautista Cabrera Ibarz (sometimes spelled Ivars; 23 April 1837 – 18 May 1916) was the founding bishop of the Spanish Reformed Episcopal Church, originally the Spanish Reformed Church. He was also a Freemason, poet, theologian and translat ...
Ibarz (1837–1916), First bishop (1896–1916) * Rev. Santos Molina Zurita, Second bishop (1954–1966) * Rev. Ramón Taibo Sienes, Third bishop (1967–1983) * Rev. Arturo Sánchez Galán, Fourth bishop (1983–1995) * Rev. Carlos López Lozano (b. 1962), Fifth bishop (From 1995)


Liturgy

The IERE uses the Mozarabic Rite, also known as the Hispanic Rite, a
Latin liturgical rite Latin liturgical rites, or Western liturgical rites, are Catholic rites of public worship employed by the Latin Church, the largest particular church ''sui iuris'' of the Catholic Church, that originated in Europe where the Latin language once ...
. It dates principally to the 7th and 8th centuries. St.
Isidore of Seville Isidore of Seville ( la, Isidorus Hispalensis; c. 560 – 4 April 636) was a Spanish scholar, theologian, and archbishop of Seville. He is widely regarded, in the words of 19th-century historian Montalembert, as "the last scholar of ...
(d. 636), who was influential at the
Fourth Council of Toledo The Fourth Council of Toledo was held in 633. It was convened by Visigothic king Sisenand and took place at the church of Saint Leocadia in Toledo. Probably under the presidency of the noted Isidore of Seville, the council regulated many matters ...
633, according to the wishes of that Council, gave the Hispanic rite its final form before
Muslim conquest of Hispania The Umayyad conquest of Hispania, also known as the Umayyad conquest of the Visigothic Kingdom, was the initial expansion of the Umayyad Caliphate over Hispania (in the Iberian Peninsula) from 711 to 718. The conquest resulted in the decline of t ...
.
Mozarab The Mozarabs ( es, mozárabes ; pt, moçárabes ; ca, mossàrabs ; from ar, مستعرب, musta‘rab, lit=Arabized) is a modern historical term for the Iberian Christians, including Christianized Iberian Jews, who lived under Muslim rule in A ...
is the term for the Christian population living under Muslim rulers in
Al-Andalus Al-Andalus DIN 31635, translit. ; an, al-Andalus; ast, al-Ándalus; eu, al-Andalus; ber, ⴰⵏⴷⴰⵍⵓⵙ, label=Berber languages, Berber, translit=Andalus; ca, al-Àndalus; gl, al-Andalus; oc, Al Andalús; pt, al-Ândalus; es, ...
. Previous to its organization, there were several translations of the Anglican ''
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'' into Spanish in 1623 and in 1707. In 1881 the church combined a Spanish translation of the 1662 edition of the ''Book of Common Prayer'' with the Mozarabic liturgy, which had recently been translated. This is apparently the first time the Spanish speaking Anglicans inserted their own "...historic, national tradition of liturgical worship within an Anglican prayer book." A second edition was released in 1889, and a revision in 1975. This attempt combined the Anglican structure of worship with indigenous prayer traditions. An experimental "Rito 1" or "Rite 1" for the church dating from 1984 has a few interesting aspects. One item is that after the president (a presbyter or the bishop if he is in the presbyter seating) prays for the absolution of the sins of the congregation, the assembly responds by praying in turn for the absolution of the sins of the president: "God have mercy on you also, forgive you your sins through Jesus Christ and give you eternal life by the power of the Holy Spirit. Amen."


Organisation

The IERE has a democratic,
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ical (parliamentary) polity. The Synod is the highest authority in the Church; the
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and clergy have equal representation in it. The
parish A parish is a territorial entity in many Christian denominations, constituting a division within a diocese. A parish is under the pastoral care and clerical jurisdiction of a priest, often termed a parish priest, who might be assisted by one or m ...
es are represented by one cleric and by one lay person. The Synod elects the Standing Committee, which governs the Church between synods. The IERE is not a Church with an episcopal government, like the
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, but is a synodical Church governed by a bishop in synod. The bishop and the synod are required to work together in close co-operation. The current diocesan bishop is Carlos López Lozano, a Madrilene who was ordained as bishop by the
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in November 1995. The Church is divided for administrative purposes into three zones:
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,
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, and
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;
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and
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; Centre and Northern Spain. As of 2001, the IERE had one diocese and 22 licensed priests (one woman) serving 20 parishes, in
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,
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,
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,
Seville Seville (; es, Sevilla, ) is the capital and largest city of the Spanish autonomous community of Andalusia and the province of Seville. It is situated on the lower reaches of the River Guadalquivir, in the southwest of the Iberian Peninsula ...
,
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,
Tarragona Tarragona (, ; Phoenician: ''Tarqon''; la, Tarraco) is a port city located in northeast Spain on the Costa Daurada by the Mediterranean Sea. Founded before the fifth century BC, it is the capital of the Province of Tarragona, and part of Tar ...
,
Murcia Murcia (, , ) is a city in south-eastern Spain, the capital and most populous city of the autonomous community of the Region of Murcia, and the seventh largest city in the country. It has a population of 460,349 inhabitants in 2021 (about one ...
,
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, and
Madrid Madrid ( , ) is the capital and most populous city of Spain. The city has almost 3.4 million inhabitants and a metropolitan area population of approximately 6.7 million. It is the second-largest city in the European Union (EU), and ...
.


Affiliations

Together with the Church of England chaplaincies of the Diocese in Europe, the IERE is the representative of the
Anglican Communion The Anglican Communion is the third largest Christian communion after the Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox churches. Founded in 1867 in London, the communion has more than 85 million members within the Church of England and other ...
in Spain. It belongs to the
Federation of Evangelical Religious Entities of Spain The Federation of Evangelical Religious Entities of Spain (Spanish: ''Federación de Entidades Religiosas Evangélicas de España'' or ''FEDERE'') is a Spanish organization of Protestant religious denomination, denominations, mostly Evangelicalism, ...
(FEDERE) and is member of the
World Council of Churches The World Council of Churches (WCC) is a worldwide Christian inter-church organization founded in 1948 to work for the cause of ecumenism. Its full members today include the Assyrian Church of the East, the Oriental Orthodox Churches, most juri ...
and the
Conference of European Churches The Conference of European Churches (CEC) was founded in 1959 to promote reconciliation, dialogue and friendship between the churches of Europe at a time of growing Cold War political tensions and divisions. In its commitment to Europe as a who ...
. It is in
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with the
Old Catholic Church The terms Old Catholic Church, Old Catholics, Old-Catholic churches or Old Catholic movement designate "any of the groups of Western Christians who believe themselves to maintain in complete loyalty the doctrine and traditions of the undivide ...
es as well as being part of the
Porvoo Communion The Porvoo Communion is a communion of 15 predominantly northern European Anglican and Evangelical Lutheran churches, with a couple of far-southwestern European (in the Iberian Peninsula) church bodies of the same denomination. It was establishe ...
with the Scandinavian
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churches.


References


Bibliography

* Busquets, José. ''Cien Años de Testimonio: 1880–1980''. Madrid: IERE, 1980. * Church of England
The Lusitanian Church, Catholic, Apostolic, Evangelical, and the Spanish Reformed Episcopal Church
Report of the Commission Appointed by the Archbishop of Canterbury, Etc. ondon Church Information Office, 1963. * C., R. S., R. Stewart CLOUGH, and William Conyngham PLUNKET
The Revised Prayer-Book of the Reformed Spanish Church, As Authorised by the Synod of That Church, May, 1889
Translated by R.S.C. .E. R.S. Clough.With an Introduction by the Most Rev. Lord Plunket, D.D., Archbishop of Dublin. Second Edition. Alex. Thom & Co: Dublin, 1894. * Cruzado, J
Oficios Divinos Y Administracion De Los Sacramentos Y Otros Ritos En La Iglesia Española Reformada
Madrid, 1889. * de Olaiz Fresno, Miguel. ''La Iglesia Catedral del Redentor.'' IERE: Madrid, 1994. * Estruch, Juan. 1968
"HOW CAN THERE BE PROTESTANTS IN SPAIN?"
The Ecumenical Review. 20, no. 1: 53-62. Notes: Mr. JUAN ESTRUCH is a layman of the Spanish Episcopal Reformed Church and is Youth Secretary for his Church. At present he is studying religious sociology at Louvain. * Iglesia Española Reformada Episcopal
La Iglesia Episcopal En España = The Episcopal Church in Spain
adrid Departmento de Publicaciones de la IERE, 1984. * Iglesia Española Reformada Episcopal, and Alexander R. C. Dallas
"The Declaration Set Forth by the Central Consistory of the Spanish Reformed Church: With Some Account of the Members and Their Meetings at Gibraltar on the 25th April and the 1st June, 1868"
London: William Macintosh, 1868. Translated from the Spanish by the Rev. Alexander Dallas. * Iglesia Española Reformada Episcopal, and Colin Ogilvie Buchanan
Liturgies of the Spanish and Portuguese Reformed Episcopal Churches
Grove, 1985. ; 9781851740079. * Iglesia Española Reformada Episcopal, and William Conyngham Plunket Plunket
The Revised Prayer-Book of the Reformed Spanish Church
(As Authorised by the Synod of That Church, May, 1889). Dublin: Alex. Thom, 1894. Notes: Added t.p.: The Divine Office and administration of the sacraments and other ordinances in the Reformed Spanish Church. Madrid: Printed by J. Cruzado, 1889. Other Titles: Divine offices and administration of the sacraments and other ordinances in the Reformed Spanish Church. Oficios divinos y administracion de los sacramentos y otros ritos en la Iglesia Española reformada. * Irwin, O. A. C
Pilgrim Churches: The Spanish and Portuguese Reformed Episcopal Churches
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Official Site of the Spanish Reformed Episcopal Church (in Spanish)Official Site of the Anglican Cathedral Church of the Redeemer in Madrid (in Spanish)
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