About Us
Rooted in the historic faith of Anglicanism and responsive to the needs of today.
Our Identity
The Ordinariate of Saint George for Chaplaincy is a non-territorial Anglican ecclesiastical jurisdiction — formed and sent into the places where pastoral care and spiritual presence are most needed.
Our Communion
The Ordinariate serves as the Chaplain Diocese of the Anglican Province of North America — itself a constituent province of the Anglican Free Communion International, a worldwide family of autonomous Anglican churches founded in England on 2 November 1897.
Our Foundations
A non-territorial Anglican ecclesiastical jurisdiction established for the oversight, formation, and support of clergy serving as chaplains. Mission-focused — forming and sending clergy into the places where people live, work, serve, and face the realities of daily life.
Entrusted to a Bishop Ordinary, who exercises pastoral and canonical authority in accordance with the doctrine, discipline, and worship of the Anglican Church — providing unity of purpose with the flexibility chaplaincy demands.
A deep commitment to Anglican tradition — the richness of liturgical worship and common prayer. Our identity is shaped by the conviction that the Church's mission flows from its worship.
Many people encounter the Church not within parish walls but in moments of crisis, service, or transition. Our chaplains are present — offering guidance, sacramental care, and the steady witness of the Gospel.
Recognizing the digital world as a vital mission field, we use online platforms to teach, engage, and proclaim the Gospel — extending our reach beyond physical settings in meaningful ways.
Our Story
Antiquity
From the early witness of Christianity in the British Isles through the English Reformation, the Anglican Way has carried the ancient faith with clarity, liturgical beauty, and pastoral breadth.
1897
Founded in England on 2 November 1897 under the first Primus, Mar Leon Chechemian, from the union of three small churches — carrying forward the apostolic succession received through Anglican, Armenian, Syriac, and Old Catholic lines. Today the Communion spans four continents.
2020
When division came for the sake of orthodoxy, the Communion held fast. The Anglican Province of North America (APNA) was formed as a constituent province of the Anglican Free Communion International — Catholic and Reformed, rooted in the Ancient British Church and the wider Anglican settlement.
A calling recognized
Bishops and clergy discerned that chaplains serving in military, medical, educational, governmental, and emergency ministries required a jurisdiction shaped around their unique calling — not bound to parish geography, but faithful in canonical order.
Today
Established as the Chaplain Diocese of APNA and based in Cleveland, Ohio, the Ordinariate is an "infinity diocese" covering the entire United States — entrusted to a Bishop Ordinary and named for the great martyr and patron of soldiers, sending clergy into the armed forces, hospitals, prisons, and other specialised fields of mission.
Our Purpose
Mission
We exist to form, endorse, and support Anglican clergy serving as chaplains — bringing the sacraments, prayer, and pastoral presence of Christ into the places where people most need them.
Vision
A Church whose ministers stand alongside soldiers, patients, students, and first responders — a visible witness that the Gospel is at work in every field of human labor and suffering.
Values
Rooted in Scripture, the Creeds, and the Book of Common Prayer. Ready to go where mission calls. Present to the person in front of us with humility, hope, and pastoral care.
Our Faith
We hold the historic faith once delivered to the saints, received through Holy Scripture and confessed in the Creeds of the undivided Church.
The Old and New Testaments are the inspired Word of God, containing all things necessary for salvation and the supreme rule of faith and life.
We confess the Apostles', Nicene, and Athanasian Creeds as faithful summaries of the apostolic faith — one God in Trinity, and Jesus Christ, true God and true Man.
We celebrate the two Gospel sacraments of Baptism and Holy Communion, and honor the other sacramental rites of the Church as means of God's grace.
We stand within the tradition of the Book of Common Prayer, the Thirty-Nine Articles, and the Ordinal — the historic Anglican formularies as faithful expressions of Reformed Catholic Christianity.
Bishops, priests, and deacons — the threefold ministry received from the Apostles — govern and serve the Church in unbroken succession of order and doctrine.
Called to make disciples of all nations, we live out the Gospel through worship, pastoral care, and the daily witness of chaplains in every field of service.
Leadership
Bishop Ordinary
Bishop Brent exercises pastoral and canonical oversight of the Ordinariate — forming chaplains, endorsing them for ministry, and guarding the doctrine, discipline, and worship entrusted to us.
The Ordinariate is served by clergy across military, medical, educational, governmental, and emergency ministries — each endorsed and supported for their particular field of chaplaincy.
"A community of clergy and faithful united in prayer, formed by the liturgy, and sent into the world to serve."
