[4][5] The Charismatic Episcopal Church began when a variety of independent churches throughout the United States, as part of the Convergence Movement, began to blend evangelical teaching and charismatic worship with liturgies from the Book of Common Prayer inspired by the spiritual pilgrimages of modern Evangelical Protestant writers like Thomas Howard, Robert E. Webber, Peter E. Gillquist and the ancient Christian writers and their communities.

[6] These men, along with theologians, scripture scholars, and pastors in a number of traditions, were calling Christians back to their roots in the primitive church.

In 1997, the ICCEC sought and acquired consecration and ordination of all of its clergy by the Brazilian Catholic Apostolic Church through the episcopal genealogy of Carlos Duarte Costa.

The council accepted his request, expressing gratitude for all he had done in the formation and launching of the vision which led to the ICCEC.

The celebration was presided over by Loren Thomas Hines, Archbishop of Manila and the ICCEC's primate in the Philippines and Asia.

[21] The ICCEC believes in the dogmatic statements of the seven ecumenical councils of the state church of Rome, apostolic succession, the real presence of Christ in the Eucharist, the authority of scripture, and the validity of the charismatic revival as a genuine movement of God.

The council's stated goal was that the new catechism would reflect the fullness of the ancient catholic and orthodox faith, and the Reformation, as it is expressed in the world contemporarily.

[13] A sacramentary drafted by the Worship & Music Committee of the Northeast [U.S.] Diocese, which includes Roman, Anglican and Eastern rites, is also used.