Who are we?

St. James is the only English speaking congregation in the Episcopal Diocese of Guatemala. We worship at The Cathedral of St. James the Apostle (Catedral de Santiago Apóstol).  We are a small congregation, comprised of English speakers from North America and the U.K., as well as English speaking Guatemalans. Some of us are permanently resident in Guatemala, while others are here temporarily in the diplomatic community or in private business.

St. James Episcopal Church
The Episcopal Church of Guatemala

A member of the Anglican Communion

The Right Rev. Armando Guerra, Rector

The Rev. Dr. Francisco Trabanino - Priest-in-charge

Sunday: 9:15 am Holy Communion
Wednesday: 12:15 pm Communion Service

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We are now at Ordinary Time

Links

Episcopians in Guatemala - Episcopalians in the US - CLAI - ARCIC 

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READINGS

Anglicanism is a tradition within Christianity comprising churches with historical connections to the Church of England or similar beliefs, worship and church structures. Anglicanism forms one of the principal traditions of Christianity, together with Protestantism, Roman Catholicism and Eastern Orthodoxy.

The word Anglican originates in ecclesia anglicana, a medieval Latin phrase dating to at least 1246 meaning the English Church. Adherents of Anglicanism are called Anglicans. The great majority of Anglicans are members of churches which are part of the international Anglican Communion. There are, however, a small number of churches outside of the Anglican Communion which also consider themselves to be in the Anglican tradition, most notably those referred to as Continuing Anglican churches.

The faith of Anglicans is founded in the scriptures, the traditions of the apostolic church, the apostolic succession – "historic episcopate" and the early Church Fathers. Anglicanism forms one of the branches of Western Christianity; having definitively declared its independence from the Roman pontiff at the time of the Elizabethan Religious Settlement, in what has been otherwise termed the British monachism.

As the name suggests, the Anglican Communion is an association of those churches in full communion with the Archbishop of Canterbury. With over eighty million members the Anglican Communion is the third largest Christian communion in the world, after the Roman Catholic Church and the Eastern Orthodox Church.