Lambeth Quadrilateral
The Lambeth Quadrilateral is the name given to the four key principles that form the basis for the union of various churches that make up the Anglican faith:
- acceptance of the Holy Scripture as the rule of faith;
- the Apostles' and the Nicene creeds;
- the sacraments of Baptism and the Lord's Supper;
- and the principle of church government based on bishops.
The quadrilateral was first declared by the General Convention of the Protestant Episcopal Church in Chicago in 1886 and were amended and adopted at the 1888 Lambeth Conference.