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The Apostolic Catholic Church (ACC) is a self-governing church〔 founded in 1992 that traces its faith and worship from the One, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church that Jesus Christ and his Apostles established and claims 24 lines of apostolic succession. The church's goal is to mediate and unite the Western Rite or the Roman Catholic Church and the Eastern Rite or the Orthodox Church to form a single Catholic Church. The Apostolic Catholic Church is classified as an independent and autocephalous Catholic church because it is not in communion with the Vatican although it follows Catholic teaching and theology, such as Marian devotions and recitation of the 15 decades of the Rosary. The church was founded and is currently headed by Patriarch John Florentine L. Teruel, P.P. His mother, the ACC Matriarch, Maria Virginia Peñaflor Leonzon, is its honorary foundress. The church is based in Sacrifice Valley Ecclesiastical State in Hermosa, Bataan, Philippines. It has two main shrines: the Cathedral of the Most Holy Trinity in Sacrifice Valley (its main cathedral) and the National Shrine of Our Lady of the Rock in Quezon City. ==Church governance and congregation== The Apostolic Catholic Church, as a self-governing autocephalous church, having two congregation and religious order which is the Order of the Missionaries of the Holy Spirit (OMHS) and the Order of the Missionaries of John Florentine (OMJF) . The members of the congregation are the archbishops, bishops, priests, deacons, subdeacons, nuns, and third order members, bound by their evangelical vows of chastity, poverty, obedience, and acceptance of their immediate superiors, to the Patriarch, John Florentine L. Teruel, P.P., and to God the Holy Spirit, who is called by his new Name ''Ingkong''. The lay governing body of the Apostolic Catholic Church is headed by the Parish Pastoral Council, with its own elected officers and committees, the working force of the church. The Apostolic Catholic Church is a mainline Protestant denomination that can be classified as paleo-orthodox because its goal is to mediate Catholicism to revive the ancient traditions that Jesus Christ taught humanity. The church manifests itself as Protestant catholic because it does not accept the authority of the Pope nor the Doctrine of Papal Infallibility and the conditions approved in the Vatican II Council that removed some ancient Christian traditions. The church is an active member of the National Council of Churches in the Philippines along with other Protestant and non-Roman Catholic churches whose goal is to achieve ecumenism.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Our Member Churches )〕 Today, the church is said to have more than five to eight million members worldwide, making it the third largest Christian denomination in the Philippines after the Roman Catholic Church as the first and the Iglesia Filipina Independiente or Aglipayan as the second.〔http://uw.abs-cbnnews.com/images/news/microsites/TheCorrespondents/TheCorrespondents/tc04052004sekta.htm〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Apostolic Catholic Church (Philippines)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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