The world's gayest church

Welcome to London’s smallest Cathedral. This is the pro-Cathedral of the Liberal Catholic Church.

A Pro-cathedral is a parish church that is temporarily acting as a cathedral.

The Liberal Catholics were established by founded by J. I Wedgewood - a member of the famous porcelain manufacturing family. Wedgewood brought the church to Putney after they opened their first church in Caledonian Road in 1920.

Wedgewood was a former Anglican priest who left the Anglican church on becoming an occultist in 1904 and joined the Old Catholic Church because they did not believe in the authority of the Pope.

Wedgwood became the first presiding Bishop of the LLC because he learned that a bishop of the Old Catholic Church, had become enmeshed in a homosexuality scandal and as a result had been suspended by the Archbishop who had ordained Wedgewood. Wedgewood was gay. He also learned that the same Archbishop wanted all the clergy of the church to renounce occultism. Shortly afterwards the Archbishop published a letter in The Times announcing his intention to return to the Roman Catholic Church.

Liberal Catholicism finds any form of Christian worship valid as long as it is earnest and true. But it also holds that Christ also appointed certain Eastern Orthodox rites as special channels of power and blessing. Many in the church accept the concept of purgatory, and in the Mass the priest prays for the dead. The church is open to reincarnation.

The LCC permits the ordination of non-celibate gays and lesbians. Three of its first four presiding bishops, Wiloughby, Wedgewood, Leadbeater were caught up in homosexual scandals.

The LLC is led by Archbishop Elizabeth Stuart, a Professor of Christian theology at Winchester University and an authority on lesbian and gay theology.