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In the Anglican Communion, archbishops are styled " The Most Reverend " and addressed as " Your Grace ", while bishops are styled " The Right Reverend " and addressed as " My Lord " or " Your Lordship ".
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The Anglican Communion is an international association of national and regional Anglican churches ( and a few other episcopal churches ) in full communion with the Church of England ( which is regarded as the mother church of the worldwide communion ) and specifically with its principal primate, the Archbishop of Canterbury.
With a membership currently estimated at over 85 million members worldwide, the Anglican Communion is the third largest Christian communion in the world, after the Roman Catholic Church and the Eastern Orthodox Churches.
The Anglican Communion considers itself to be part of the One, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church and to be both Catholic and Reformed.
The Anglican Communion Office is headed by its Secretary General, the Reverend Canon Kenneth Kearon.
The Anglican Communion has no official legal existence nor any governing structure which might exercise authority over the member churches.
There is an Anglican Communion Office in London, under the aegis of the Archbishop of Canterbury, but it only serves a supporting and organisational role.
As mentioned above, the Anglican Communion has no international juridical organisation.
The Chair of St Augustine ( the episcopal throne in Canterbury Cathedral, Kent ), seat of the Archbishop of Canterbury in his role as head of the Anglican Communion
The body has a permanent secretariat, the Anglican Communion Office, of which the Archbishop of Canterbury is president.
In response, the American Episcopal Church and the Anglican Church of Canada answered that the actions had been undertaken after lengthy scriptural and theological reflection, legally in accordance with their own canons and constitutions and after extensive consultation with the provinces of the Communion.
All 38 provinces of the Anglican Communion are autonomous, each with its own primate and governing structure.
A world map showing the provinces of the Anglican Communion ( Blue ).
Also shown are the churches in full communion with the Anglican Communion: the Nordic Lutheran churches of the Porvoo Communion ( Green ) and the Old Catholic Church | Old Catholic churches of the Utrecht Union ( Red ).
In addition to other member churches, the churches of the Anglican Communion are in full communion with the Old Catholic churches of the Union of Utrecht and the Scandinavian Lutheran churches of the Porvoo Communion in Europe, the India-based Mar Thoma and Malabar Independent Syrian churches and the Philippine Independent Church, also known as the Aglipayan Church.
The Anglican Communion is a relatively recent concept.
Thus the only member churches of the present Anglican Communion existing by the mid-18th century were the Church of England, its closely linked sister church, the Church of Ireland ( which also separated from Roman Catholicism under Henry VIII ) and the Scottish Episcopal Church which for parts of the 17th and 18th centuries was partially underground ( it was suspected of Jacobite sympathies ).
The churches of the Anglican Communion have traditionally held that ordination in the historic episcopate is a core element in the validity of clerical ordinations.
More recently, disagreements over homosexuality have strained the unity of the Communion as well as its relationships with other Christian denominations, leading to another round of withdrawals from the Anglican Communion.
Some churches founded outside the Anglican Communion in the late 20th and early 21st centuries, largely in opposition to the ordination of openly homosexual bishops and other clergy are usually referred to as belonging to the Anglican realignment movement, or else as " orthodox " Anglicans.
Anglican and archbishops
" He further asserts that because the Roman Catholic Church does not recognise the Church of England as an apostolic church, a Roman Catholic monarch who abided by their faith's doctrine would be obliged to view Anglican and Church of Scotland archbishops, bishops, and clergy as part of the laity and therefore " lacking the ordained authority to preach and celebrate the sacraments.
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The ordinary of such an archdiocese is an archbishop, however, especially in the Anglican Communion, not all archbishops ' dioceses are called archdioceses.
In the Anglican Communion retired archbishops vary their use of the title archbishop.
National Anglican churches are presided over by one or more primates or metropolitans ( archbishops or presiding bishops ).
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), oral address Your Grace — Church of England ( Anglican ) archbishops who are Privy Councillors, usually the Archbishops of Canterbury and York
), oral address Your Grace — Anglican archbishops, primates, metropolitans and presiding bishops.
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