Church of Orb

The Church of Orb is the main religious institution of the Orbin Federation. It is a member of the worldwide Anglican Communion and in full communion with the Archbishop of Canterbury, in England. Its seat is the See of Good Port, and the Rt. Rev. Ian Broadwell is the current Archbishop of Good Port.

Statistics show that rougly 80% of all Orbins are baptized members of the Church of Orb.

History
The Church of Orb was first set up by the original settlers on Manitoulin Island. Their first bishop was the Rev. Daniel Cartright (1742-1819).

It was officially acknowledged as a seperate entity from the Church of England in 1852, when the British Crown relinquished control of Manitoulin, and the Archbishop of Canterbury granted sovereignty to the "Church of Manitoulin and the Islands."

It would be renamed the Church of Orb after the Unification in 1936.

In 2012, the Episcopal Diocese of South Carolina split off from the US Episcopal Church, and petitioned to join the Church of Orb. The request was accepted, and the diocese was officially incorporated in January 2013.

Beliefs
The Church of Orb espouses moderate to conservative Anglican theology. It teaches that God the Father created the world, and the Jesus Christ is His only Son, and that together with the Holy Spirit, they make up the Holy Trinity--One God in Three Persons.

It bases its theology on the Holy Bible, as well as the Thirty-Nine Articles, and the Nicean Creed.

The C of O is in communion with the Anglican Church of Canada and the American Episcopal Church, and has dialogues with the Roman Catholic Church and the Orthodox Church in America, as well as various other Protestant churches. Its relationship with evangelicals and fundamentalists, however, is less friendly.

The C of O produces its own Book of Common Prayer, the most recent of which is the 1959 edition.

Unlike its American and Canadian counterparts, the Church of Orb has taken a stance against blessing homosexual unions, and has organized the Church of Orb in North America as for all Anglican parishes in those countries that don't agree with their counties' churches.

The Church of Orb has, however, also done a great deal of missionary work to Africa, Asia, and South America, often in cooperation with Canadian Anglicans and American Episcopalians, and has built schools, churches, houses, and provided other goods for people in those regions.

In 1982, the Church passed a motion to allow women to become deaons, and to allow girls to be acolytes. In 1995, Jennifer Quincy became the Church of Orb's first female priest. Since that time, many more have been ordained.