Anglican Church


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Anglican Church

n.
The Church of England and the churches in other nations that are in complete agreement with it as to doctrine and discipline and are in communion with the Archbishop of Canterbury. Also called Anglican Communion.
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Anglican Church

n
(Anglicanism) any Church of the Anglican Communion or the Anglican Communion itself
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An′glican Church′


n.
the Church of England and those churches that are in communion with it.
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Anglican Church

The reformed church of England, first established in 1534 but retaining elements of Roman Catholic dogma and ritual.
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ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
Noun1.Anglican Church - the national church of England (and all other churches in other countries that share its beliefs)Anglican Church - the national church of England (and all other churches in other countries that share its beliefs); has its see in Canterbury and the sovereign as its temporal head
Anglican Communion, Church of England
church service, church - a service conducted in a house of worship; "don't be late for church"
Evening Prayer, evensong - (Anglican Church) a daily evening service with prayers prescribed in the Book of Common Prayer
Protestant Episcopal Church, Episcopal Church - United States church that is in communication with the see of Canterbury
Church of Ireland - autonomous branch of the Church of England in Ireland
Episcopal Church, Episcopal Church of Scotland - an autonomous branch of the Anglican Communion in Scotland
Protestant denomination - group of Protestant congregations
Anglican Catholic - a member of the Anglican Church who emphasizes its Catholic character
archdeacon - (Anglican Church) an ecclesiastical dignitary usually ranking just below a bishop
bishop - a senior member of the Christian clergy having spiritual and administrative authority; appointed in Christian churches to oversee priests or ministers; considered in some churches to be successors of the twelve Apostles of Christ
Anglican - a Protestant who is a follower of Anglicanism
sidesman - (Church of England) an assistant to the churchwarden; collects offerings of money in the church
vicar - (Church of England) a clergyman appointed to act as priest of a parish
Circumcision, Feast of the Circumcision, January 1 - (Roman Catholic Church and Anglican Church) feast day celebrating the circumcision of Jesus; celebrated on January 1st
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Briefly, Robert Elsmere, a priest of the Anglican Church, marries a very religious woman; there is the perfection of "mutual love"; at length he has doubts about "historic Christianity"; he gives up his orders; carries his learning, his fine intellect, his goodness, nay, his saintliness, into a kind of Unitarianism; the wife becomes more intolerant than ever; there is a long and faithful effort on both sides, eventually successful, on the part of these mentally [66] divided people, to hold together; ending with the hero's death, the genuine piety and resignation of which is the crowning touch in the author's able, learned, and thoroughly sincere apology for Robert Elsmere's position.
Of course, a man such as Robert Elsmere came to be ought not to be a clergyman of the Anglican Church. The priest is still, and will, we think, remain, one of the necessary types of humanity; and he is untrue to his type, unless, with whatever inevitable doubts in this doubting age, he feels, on the whole, the preponderance in it of those influences which make for faith.
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His book was once esteemed of great authority in the Anglican Church, and is still, I understand, studied with pleasure to the mind and profit of the soul.
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While the Catholic Church has cancelled its Sunday services for a second week following the Easter Sunday bombings, the Anglican Church has decided to continue its Sunday service, under tight security.
Anglican church to continue Sunday services
Gorgos will be the visting priest at Holy Cross Anglican Church in Lake Villa for the summer.
Holy Cross Anglican Church in Lake Villa welcomes visiting missionary priest
Delegates from the Anglican Church of Canada recently met with their counterparts from other Anglican Communion provinces for the first Conference of the Anglican Churches in the Americas in Mutual Responsibility and Mission in San Jose, Costa Rica.
Anglican churches in the Americas meet to talk about mission
No issue has so polarised the Anglican Church as the consecration of the Right Reverend Gene Robinson, the openly gay bishop recently appointed to head the Diocese of New Hampshire in the US.
African Church prepared to cut US financial lifeline: the consecration of a gay bishop in the US has thrown up sharp divisions within the Anglican Church worldwide. The Anglican Church in Africa is threatening to break away, but doing so will mean cutting off its main financial lifeline
Explaining her group's goals, AAC spokesperson Cynthia Brust says "the action of the General Convention and the consecration of Bishop Robinson have threatened the unity of the Anglican Church, and we are moving forward with realignment."
Split decision: antigay Anglicans are threatening a schism in response to Robinson's consecration--but just how likely is it that the centuries-old church will break apart?
LONDON--The Church of England has given final approval to allow divorced people to remarry in the Anglican church. While the declaration maintains the Anglican canon that marriage be undertaken as a "solemn, public, and life-long covenant," it recognizes that "some marriages regrettably do fail and that the church's care for couples in that situation should be of paramount importance."
Anglicans get a second chance.
OTTAWA -- An agreement between Anglican Church of Canada and the Governement of Canada changes the church's approach to lawsuits for compensation from former Indian residential school students.
Anglican-government pact on Indian school suits rejected by Catholics. (Children & Families)
On the other hand, Archbishop Terence Finlay of Toronto, who presides over the largest diocese in Canada with 220 parishes and 90,000 faithful, supports the "blessings" and "personally favours a local option to allow parishes to decide...to bless unions under certain conditions." Also on side is Archbishop Michael Peers, primate of the Anglican Church of Canada, who takes a similar position, claiming that the diocese of New Westminster has acted "responsibly" in the process employed and in the provision of a conscience clause for parishes in disagreement.
Same-sex "blessings" cause Anglican rift. (News in Brief)
Schism is now a reality in the Anglican Church of Canada.
Essentials not the sole authors of this schism

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