The Diocese was formed, like the rest of the ACC, in response to the alteration to the sacraments by the Church of England.
[1][2] The Diocese of the United Kingdom is a Continuing Anglican church which arose from the Congress of St. Louis in 1977.
[5] In March 1992, Hamlett was elected bishop when the Archbishop of the Anglican Catholic Church, William O. Lewis, visited his parish.
[6] On 1 August 1992, he was consecrated by Bishops James Orin Mote, William Francis Burns, Thomas Justin Kleppinger, Michael Dean Stephens, Joseph Philip Deyman, and James Richard McNeley as its first Bishop Ordinary.
Arthur Roger Dawson (ACC Retired Bishop of Caracas, Venezuela), and The Right Rev.
[16] The Diocese of the United Kingdom is governed by the Constitution and Statutes of the Original Province of the Anglican Catholic Church, as well as its own diocesan canons.
[17] The Bishop Ordinary is assisted by diocesan officers, elected at annual synods, as well as a Council of Advice.