Statement of Faith

As an Anglican church within the Church of England, St. Aidan’s Cumbria’s faith is summed up as a belief in God as Father, Son and Holy Spirit. Our faith is revealed in the Holy Scriptures and set forth in the catholic creeds and to which the historic formularies of the Church of England bear witness. 

Additionally, this is further summarised in Resolution 11 of the 1888 Lambeth Conference, which states: 

That, in the opinion of this Conference, the following articles supply a basis on which approach may be by God’s blessing made towards home reunion: 

• The Holy Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments, as “containing all things necessary to salvation,” and as being the rule and ultimate standard of faith. 

• The Apostles’ Creed, as the baptismal symbol; and the Nicene Creed, as the sufficient statement of the Christian faith. 

• The two sacraments ordained by Christ himself – Baptism and the Supper of the Lord – ministered with unfailing use of Christ’s words of institution, and of the elements ordained by him. 

• The historic episcopate, locally adapted in the methods of its administration to the varying needs of the nations and peoples called of God into the unity of his Church.