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The oldest-surviving Anglican church outside of the British Isles ( Britain and Ireland ) is St Peter's Church in St. George's, Bermuda, established in 1612 ( though the actual building had to be rebuilt several times over the following century ).

This is also the oldest surviving non-Roman Catholic church in the New World.

It remained part of the Church of England until 1978 when the Anglican Church of Bermuda separated.

The Church of England was the established church not only in England, but in its trans-Oceanic colonies.