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The founders

Founders of our Communion in 1897

+Leon Checkemian

+James Martin

+ Andrew Albert MacLaglen

This Communion was established in England on 2 November 1897 by a union of several small British episcopates established in the 1870s in reaction to the rising Anglo-Catholicism of the Church of England.

The Most Rev'd Leon Checkemian (1848 - 1920), an Armenian Uniate bishop, had moved to Britain and became a protestant Anglican and served as the first primate of the new Church.

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