The church reports to theWorld Council of Churches that it has around 5,000 members.[2][3] In 2016, research published in theJournal of Anglican Studies, byCambridge University Press, reported that the church claims 5,000 total members.[4] In 2017,Growth and Decline in the Anglican Communion: 1980 to the Present, published byRoutledge, collected peer-reviewed research, edited by faculty atDurham University, reporting there were 2,700 Anglicans in Portugal, a decline from 4,500 in 1970.[5]
In the early days of the church, a translation into Portuguese from 1849 of the1662 edition of theBook of Common Prayer was used. In 1884 the church published its own prayer book based on the Anglican prayer books,Roman Rite, andMozarabic liturgies. The intent was to emulate the customs of the primitive apostolic church.[6]
^Goodhew, David, ed. (2017).Growth and decline in the Anglican communion: 1980 to the present. Routledge contemporary ecclesiology (1st ed.). London New York: Routledge. p. 48.ISBN978-1-4724-3364-0.
Anglican Communion, and Church of England.The Iberian Churches. [London] [14 Great Peter St., SW1P 3NQ]: Anglican Consultative Council, 1980.
Church of Ireland, and William Conyngham Plunket Plunket.The Irish Bishops and Church Reform in Spain and Portugal: A Record of the Action Taken by the Irish Episcopate at Their Meeting February 20, 1894. Dublin: Hodges, Figgis, 1894.
Colóquio comemorativo do centenário da Igreja do Torne.Vila Nova de Gaia de ha cem anos. Vila Nova de Gaia: Junta Paroquial de S.João Evangelista, 1995.
Iglesia Española Reformada Episcopal, and Colin Ogilvie Buchanan.Liturgies of the Spanish and Portuguese Reformed Episcopal Churches. Grove, 1985.
Igreja Lusitana Católica Apostólica Evangélica.Eucaristia ou Ceia do Senhor. [Pôrto]: [Imprensa Social], 1963.
Igreja Lusitana Católica Apostólica Evangélica.O livro de oração comum; administração dos sacramentos e outros ofícios divinos na Igreja Lusitana. Porto, Portugal: Tipo-Lito de Gonçalves & Nogueira, 1928.
Igreja Lusitana Católica Apostólica Evangélica.Lusitanian Church, Catholic Apostolic Evangelical: A Century of Portuguese Anglican Witness. Vila Nova de Gaia: [s.n.], 1985.
Igreja Lusitana Católica Apostólica Evangélica (Portugal).Ecclesia. Orgão Oficial Da Igreja Lusitana Católica Apostólica Evangélica. Ano 5. No. 24. Ano 6. No. 25/27. Nov. 1953, Jan/Maio 1954. 1953.
Irwin, O. A. C.Pilgrim Churches: The Spanish and Portuguese Reformed Episcopal Churches. [London, England]: [Houghton & Sons, Ltd.], 1956.
Macdonald, John A. 2013. "Dioceses Extra-Provincial to Canterbury (Bermuda, the Lusitanian Church, the Reformed Episcopal Church of Spain, and Falkland Islands)". 464-473. IN: Markham, Ian S.; Provinces; Markham,The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to the Anglican Communion; John Wiley & Sons, Ltd: Chichester, UK.
Moreira, Eduardo.Esboço da história da Igreja Lusitana. [Portugal]: Edição do Sínodo da Igreja Lusitania Católica Apostólica Evangélica, 1949.
Plunket, William Conyngham Plunket, R. Stewart Clough, and Thomas Godfrey Pembroke Pope.The Divine Offices and Other Formularies of the Reformed Episcopal Churches of Spain and Portugal. London: S.W. Partridge, 1882.
Ribeiro, António Pinto.Catecismo de doutrina cristã: destinado à instrução religiosa dos alunos das escolas primárias da Igreja Lusitana Católica Apostólica Evangélica. [Porto]: Edição do Sínodo da Igreja Lusitania, 1949.
Ordem da eucaristia: segundo o rito da Igreja Lusitana: edição do Sínodo da Igreja Lusitana Católica Apostólica Evangélica. S.l: s.n.], 1969.
