The Apostolic Communion of Churches is a Christian denomination or communion in the Convergence Movement—an ecumenical movement that began among Anglicans, Charismatics and Pentecostals to converge the sacramental, evangelical, and pentecostal-charismatic (or Spirit-filled) streams of Christianity in order to unify the Christian Church as Jesus had prayed, Him knowing division would come. In the A
postolic Communion of Churches which was established by Archbishop Thomas Henry, Jr. who also founded The Congress of Apostles and Bishops, these three streams are revealed in numerous churches and ministries embracing broad and low church perspectives—some being the desired essence of Convergence Christianity, others remaining more-or-less Pentecostal and inter-denominational charismatics within our Convergence and Pentecostal-Charismatic vicariates. Each clergy, church and ministry operates through upholding the Apostles', Nicene, and Athanasian Creeds, submission to the diocesan and auxiliary bishops, and the preservation of the Holy Scriptures as primary authority with the testimony of the Church Fathers under this biblical precedence to the glory of the Blessed Trinity (as "Apostolic" refers to being of the Apostles, not being Oneness or Jesus Name Pentecostal—a heresy formulated by a supposed new revelation in the 1900s). Likewise, within our dioceses and autonomous ACC provinces, our churches and ministries operate according to their own identities, not requiring ACC in their name, though submission in written documentation to by-laws, constitutions, etc. as also in the dioceses and ACC provinces in their autonomy declaring canonical fidelity to the Apostolic Communion of Churches and its leadership.