The Anglican Cathedral of Second Life

History

In November 2006 Rocky Vallejo (Bill Sowers in real life, member of St David’s Episcopal Church, Diocese of Kansas) founded the Anglican Group in SL with the following Charter,

A Christian community for those who call themselves: Anglicans, Episcopalians or members of the Church of England, Episcopal Church or any of the other bodies of believers who share the Anglican heritage.

Then in February 07 Rev Mark Brown (Arkin Ariantho) joined and offered to lead the group. The first meeting of the Anglican group was a small affair (see image below) and out of this Mark shared a vision of building an Anglican presence in SL through a church.

Espeth Guyot (SL name) shared the vision with some builder friends which resulted in Monty Merlin (SL name) offering to build the Cathedral with assistance from Elspeth and Barry Lubezki.

From March through to May 07 the Cathedral was built and as it took shape it was realised this was going to be something exceptional.

Today

Seven services, a Bible Study and some discussion groups are now being run and the Anglican Group in SL has grown to more than 600 members with between 80 and 100 attending a service each week.

On June 14, 2009, the Rev. Mark Brown retired from active leadership in this ministry.  He maintains an advisory role as Priest Associate, and continues to explore ideas related to online ministry, which can be followed on his personal blog.

To check out what services are on for the coming week CLICK HERE.

Want to know more?

Rev Mark Brown has written a paper, ‘Christian Mission to a Virtual World’ that can be accessed by CLICKING HERE.

To check out the Vision for the Anglican Community click here

To see who the leaders of the community are click here

Helene Milena (Ailsa Wright in RL) has written an excellent paper giving the background of this ministry and an overview of what it has accomplished thus far and it’s potential to grow into the future, which may be read here.

Would you like to visit the Cathedral?

To visit the Cathedral in SL click here (note if you are new to SL you will need to sign up by clicking on the orange box in the top right hand corner. Once inside SL feel free to IM Cady Enoch and she will arrange a tour.)

A short video of the highlights from the Easter Sunday Service March 2008: (other videos of the SL Cathedral may be viewed here).