SEAL OF THE DEACON
The Seal
of the Deacon is the personal seal of the Archfather.
The image
is of St. Stephen the Deacon and Protomartyr,
celestial
patron of the Anglican Patriarchate. St. Stephen holds
the Key of
St. Peter and Sword of St. Mark, representing
the
Archfather as successor to Pope Leo X and as
Custodian
of the Apostolic See of St. Mark at Aquileia.
See also:
The
Anglican Patriarchate, Old Holy Roman Church of the English Rite is
an autonomous and semi-autocephalous Old Roman Catholic
Patriarchate
with Anglican patrimony descended from the Roman Catholic See of Utrecht.
The See of
Utrecht was granted autonomy from Rome by the Holy See in 1145 and
has remained independent.
Modernly
known as the Anglican Rite Roman Catholic Church (ARRCC), the
Patriarchate is faithful
to the
magisterium of eternal Rome and the eternal One, Holy, Catholic,
Apostolic, and Roman Church.
While it
embraces the current Roman Communion (commonly referred to as the
Roman Catholic Church,
the
Anglican Ordinariate, the Anglican Communion, and other Catholic and
Anglican bodies as brethren,
they are
not administratively bound with the ARRCC.
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