The Ancient Orthodox Catholic Apostolic Church, formed in the first century, in the Year of the Ascended Lord Jesus the Christ, known throughout the world as the Great and Holy Apostolic Church of Christ, or simply the Great and Holy Church, is an ancient Christian church and the Church established by Jesus the Christ, expanded through the Apostles of the Christ and their successors—from the Church Fathers and evangelists of old to those apostolic bishops and pious evangelists of contemporary times. She, the Ancient Orthodox Catholic Apostolic Church, is one of the world’s oldest religious institutions and has played a role in the earliest days of Christendom in the Middle East, South and East Asia, Europe, and Africa.

A communion of autocephalous (self-headed and self-lawed) and autonomous (non-self-headed and non-self-lawed) churches—each governed by a council of several bishops (the Apostolic Synod) with the right to vote in councils, and several presbyters and laypersons from a number of the bishops’ local churches in witness also maintaining or lacking the right to vote yet guaranteed the right to speak out against contradictions to the ancient and eternal faith—the Ancient Orthodox Catholic Apostolic Church is united and governed under, in order to express more fully the oneness in the Christ of all bodies composing her, to make effective their common witness in Him, and to serve His Kingdom in the world until His Second Coming, the Ancient Orthodox Catholic Apostolic Statute set forth by the Antiochian Orthodox Catholic Apostolic Church, the Syracusan Orthodox Catholic Apostolic Church, and those autonomous bodies within their respective autocephalous mother churches, during the Great and Holy Council of Newark of 2019 (in the Year of the Lord).

Affirming the responsibility of those proven disciples of the Christ chosen to pastor over the Great and Holy Church by the Lord Jesus the Christ, the Ancient Orthodox Catholic Apostolic Church functions after the synodical manner, that is, the orthodox, episcopal, and conciliar formula as has been done since the beginning of the Church of Christ, which is, as stated prior, a communion of autocephalous and autonomous churches guided by their respective bishops—men who have been chosen to lead in the preservation of truth and the sanctification of all souls in presbytery.

Rejecting the desire for unorthodox episcopal governance under a single man and his subordinate synod, due to acknowledging the sole leadership of Jesus the Christ as head of His Church, and to the good works for the glory of God, the Ancient Orthodox Catholic Apostolic Church upholds the honorary offices of the first and second among equals, granted to the Ecumenical Metropolitan of the Church of Antioch and the Ecumenical Metropolitan of the Church of Rome, all of whom equally govern according to the Ancient Orthodox Catholic Apostolic Statute.

The Ancient Orthodox Catholic Apostolic Church, subscribing to the provisions herein defined and regulated in preamble and throughout, that Holy Scripture and Holy Tradition are upheld, thus, preserving the Church, acknowledge the Statute is non-changeable as the Church need not revise her Holy Scripture or Holy Tradition in any manner, for she is forever preserved in her sanctity, though the gates of Hades trial her daily that she might stumble out of her sanctity.