Founded:  1950, by Mar Georgius, Patriarch of Glastonbury and Catholicos of the West. The first Primate was Harold Percival Nicholson (Mar Joannes I) (1905-68). The church was an auticephalous tropos of the Catholicate of the West until the dissolution of that body in 1953.

Character: Strongly esoteric, ecumenical and interfaith, with elements of Theosophy, Spiritualism and Gnosticism, and a liturgy based on that of the Liberal Catholic Church. Much emphasis on healing and on ministry to animals. Ordained women from its inception.

Locations: Principally London, England, initially in the Cathedral Church of the Good Shepherd, Lower Sloane Street (1950-56). Subsequently, the church had the use of the Church of the Ark of the Covenant, Clapton, between 1956 and 2008. Some other activity took place in England and some bishops were appointed for service in France and Germany.

Present status: The church was strongly influenced in its latter years by anti-Nicholson factions which sought to place a greater emphasis on mainstream Spiritualism. The Nicholson legacy was reasserted in 2008 when a commission was issued to the Presiding Bishops of The Liberal Rite to continue the ACC as it had been constituted under Nicholson. As a result, this work has since been carried out through a new unified church known as the Liberal Catholic Apostolic Church.

Resources:
>>Biography and account of the ministry of Harold Nicholson and of the ACC
>>Photo archive of the ACC
>>Website of the LCAC