Who We Are

In 1944, All Souls’ began as a children’s Sunday School in a park. Today, by God’s grace, we are a thriving parish church bearing witness to Jesus Christ in Oklahoma City and beyond.

 

Our Mission

We are a Christ-centered Parish in the Episcopal Diocese of Oklahoma and a member of the worldwide Anglican Communion under the leadership of the Archbishop of Canterbury.

Our mission is simple: to direct people to Jesus Christ; he is the center of our vision; he is the object of our worship.

 

“We preach Christ crucified.”

— 1 Corinthians 1:23

 

What We Believe:

  • We worship one God who eternally exists in three Persons, praying to the Father through the Son by the Holy Spirit.

  • We believe in one Lord, Jesus Christ, the eternal Son of God, who took our nature upon him, and made one atoning sacrifice for the sins of the whole world, and on the third day rose again.

  • We believe the Holy Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments to be the Word of God, containing all things necessary to salvation and being the rule and ultimate standard of faith.

  • We hold the Apostles' Creed, as the Baptismal Symbol, and the Nicene Creed, as the sufficient statement of the Christian faith.

  • We believe in two Gospel Sacraments, Holy Baptism and Holy Communion, as generally necessary for salvation.

  • We believe in the apostolic succession of bishops.

  • We hold the Catholic Church to be that Body of faithful Christians where the Word—Jesus Christ our Lord—is faithfully proclaimed both in Preaching and Celebration of the Gospel Sacraments.

  • We pray for the speedy fulfillment of our Savior’s prayer, “That all may be one.”

  • We hold the historic prayer book tradition to be normative for our worship and belief. The 1928 Book of Common Prayer is especially important to us as Episcopalians because it is the last American revision in the Anglican tradition of common prayer.

  • We hold the Thirty-Nine Articles of Religion to be an abiding source of authority for doctrine and belief.

  • The Catechism in the Book of Common Prayer summarizes our faith, and is especially useful for basic instruction in the fundamentals of Christianity for children and converts.