Lusitanian Catholic Apostolic Evangelical Church
The Lusitanian Catholic Apostolic Evangelical Church is a Christian denomination in Portugal.
The denomination is a member church of the Anglican Communion.
Membership
The church reports to the World Council of Churches that it has around 5,000 members. In 2016, research published in the Journal of Anglican Studies, by Cambridge University Press, reported that the church claims 5,000 total members. In 2017, Growth and Decline in the Anglican Communion: 1980 to the Present, published by Routledge, collected peer-reviewed research, edited by faculty at Durham University, reporting there were 2,700 Anglicans in Portugal, a decline from 4,500 in 1970.
Worship and liturgy
In the early days of the church, a translation into Portuguese from 1849 of the 1662 edition of the Book of Common Prayer was used. In 1884 the church published its own prayer book based on the Anglican prayer books, Roman Rite, and Mozarabic liturgies. The intent was to emulate the customs of the primitive apostolic church.