Scott Early McLaughlin

 THE MOST REVEREND SCOTT EARLY MCLAUGHLIN

The Old Anglo-CatholicMovement 1515 through  

The Latin-American Anglican Church 1975

 

Archbishop Scott Earle McLaughlin was the Presiding Bishop of the Orthodox Anglican Church, the Metropolitan Archbishop of the OrthodoxAnglican Communion, and the Chancellor of Saint Andrew's Theological College and Seminary. On 1 May 1999 McLaughlin was consecrated as a bishop by Herbert M. Groce, Metropolitan Archbishop of the Anglican Rite Synod in the Americas, assisted by Bishop Larry Shaver of the Anglican Rite Synod in the Americas, and Bishop Robert J. Godfrey of the Orthodox Anglican Communion.

 

His apostolic succession is Anglican, Old Catholic, and Orthodox. McLaughlin served as suffragan bishop until 30 April 2000, when Bishop Godfrey retired. He was then elected Presiding Bishop of the Orthodox Anglican Church and the Metropolitan Archbishop of the Orthodox Anglican Communion. He was the fourth archbishop to lead the Orthodox Anglican Communion and the Orthodox Anglican Church. He was married with four children: two sons and two daughters. McLaughlin was a signatory to the Bartonville Agreement and a covenant of intercommunion with the Most Revd Augustin Bacinsky, Archbishop of the Old Catholic Church in Slovakia.

 

On June 23, 2003 (in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, The United States), Archbishop Scott Earle McLaughlin and the Bishops of the Orthodox Anglican Communion nominated and elevated to The Most Reverend Leonardo Marin-Saavedra (After 7 days that His Excellency had received his Episcopal Consecration) as Primate Archbishop of the Latin-American Anglican Church and endorsed his appointment as International President of the Old Anglo-Catholic Movement with the endorsement of all bishops of the College of Bishops of the Orthodox Anglican Communion. 

 

In 2007, 2008, and 2009, the Orthodox Anglican Communion extended its protection, succession, legal and ecclesiastical protection, to all the Bishops consecrated by the Latin-American Anglican Church, in Venezuela, Colombia, Canada, the United States, Mexico, Ecuador, Peru, Brazil, Argentina, Chile, Spain, England, Belgium, Puerto Rico, Uruguay, Bolivia, and in other nations in Asia and Africa, with facts, church ministry, mission stations, and established missions. In 2012, on Ash Wednesday, McLaughlin announced his retirement effective Easter Sunday and nominated T. Creighton Jones of Myrtle Beach, South Carolina to be his successor. This nomination was confirmed by a vote of the General Convention of the Orthodox Anglican Church on June 9, 2012.