There was so much interest shown in this present-day venture that it was continued on B.B.C., where comments were equally made by an Anglican parson, a Free Church minister and a Catholic priest.

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.

There is no single " Anglican Church " with universal juridical authority as each national or regional church has full autonomy.

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.

Some of these churches are known as Anglican, such as the Anglican Church of Canada, due to their historical link to England ( Ecclesia Anglicana means " English Church ").

The Anglican Communion considers itself to be part of the One, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church and to be both Catholic and Reformed.

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.

* The Anglican Church in Aotearoa, New Zealand and Polynesia

* The Anglican Church of Australia

* The Igreja Episcopal Anglicana do Brasil ( Anglican Episcopal Church of Brazil )

* The Anglican Church of Burundi

* The Anglican Church of Canada

* The Iglesia Anglicana de la Region Central America ( Anglican Church in the Central Region of America )

* The Province de L ' Eglise Anglicane Du Congo ( Province of the Anglican Church of Congo )

* Hong Kong Sheng Kung Hui ( Hong Kong Anglican Church ( Episcopal ))

* The Anglican Church of Kenya

* The Anglican Church of Korea

* The Anglican Church of Mexico

* The Anglican Church of Papua New Guinea

* The Anglican Church of Southern Africa

In 2001, Peter Hollingworth, AC, OBE – then the Anglican Archbishop of Brisbane – was controversially appointed Governor-General of Australia.

Of the ten Australians appointed since 1965, Lord Casey, Sir Paul Hasluck and Bill Hayden were former federal parliamentarians ; Sir John Kerr was the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of New South Wales ; Sir Ninian Stephen and Sir William Deane were appointed from the bench of the High Court ; Sir Zelman Cowen was a vice-chancellor of the University of Queensland and constitutional lawyer ; Peter Hollingworth was the Anglican Archbishop of Brisbane ; and Major-General Michael Jeffery was a retired military officer and former Governor of Western Australia.

* Anglican Church of Australia

This custom is not observed in Australia and New Zealand, where knighted Anglican clergymen routinely use the accolade.

* May 22 – William Grant Broughton, first Anglican bishop in Australia ( d. 1853 )

* Charles Murray ( bishop ) ( 1889 – 1950 ), Anglican Bishop of Riverina, Australia

* Arden Anglican School, Australia

* Tara Anglican School for Girls, North Parramatta, New South Wales, Australia

With the exception of the non-denominational Sydney Grammar School ( 1857 ) and Queensland grammar schools, all the grammar schools established in the 19th century were attached to the Church of England ( now the Anglican Church of Australia ).

Religious architecture is also prominent throughout Australia, with large Anglican or Catholic cathedrals in every major city and Christian churches in most towns.

She went to St Hilda's Anglican School for Girls before studying Medicine at the University of Western Australia, graduating in 1970.

* Coomera Anglican College, a school in Queensland, Australia

* William Johnson ( bishop ) ( 1889 – 1960 ), Anglican bishop of Ballarat, Australia

St Lukes Anglican Church, located in the city centre across the road from Westfield Liverpool, is the oldest Anglican church in Australia.

The third largest Christian denomination in Australia ( the Roman Catholic and the Anglican churches are larger ) the Uniting Church has around 243, 000 members in 2, 500 congregations.

* The Uniting Church in Australia is the third largest church denomination ( after Catholic and Anglican ).

On January 19, 2008, Robert Forsyth, Anglican bishop of South Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, condemned Corpus Christi ( which opened for February's Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras, a play depicting Judas seducing Jesus ): " It is deliberately, not innocently, offensive and they're obviously having a laugh about it.

Many churches across the world have bells cast by the Whitechapel Bell Foundry, including: Armenian Church, Chennai, Liverpool Cathedral, St Dunstan's, Mayfield, St Dunstan's, Stepney, St Mary-le-Bow, Cheapside and St Stephen's Anglican Church, Newtown and St James ' Church, Sydney both in New South Wales, Australia.

* Anglican Church of Australia

Trinity Anglican School is a private Anglican School located in Tropical North Queensland, Australia.

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

Although all administrative links with Jamaica were broken in 1962, the Cayman Islands and Jamaica continue to share many links and experiences, including membership in the Commonwealth of Nations ( and Commonwealth citizenship ) and a common united church ( the United Church in Jamaica and the Cayman Islands ) and Anglican diocese ( although there is debate about this ) as well as a common currency ( until 1972 ).

But Linebarger's daughter Rosana Hart has indicated that he did not become an Anglican until 1950, and was not strongly interested in religion until later still.

It was not until the 1930 Lambeth Conference that the Anglican Communion allowed for contraception in limited circumstances.

" He also wanted to disestablish the Anglican church in Virginia, but this was not done until 1786, while he was in France as US Minister.

Similarly, in the Anglican Communion, the rubrics of the Book of Common Prayer assumed an altar fixed against the wall, until Prayer Book revision in the twentieth century removed language which assumed any particular form of altar.

On the succession of Elizabeth, these former monks ( happily reunited both with their wives and their pensions ) formed the backbone of the new Anglican church, and may properly claim much credit for maintaining the religious life of the country until a new generation of ordinands became available in the 1560s and 1570s.

Trinity Church, the Anglican Church in Newport, Rhode Island, offered him an opportunity to become its minister, but he turned the offer down to become pastor of the Second Congregational Church in Newport, Rhode Island from 1755 until 1777.

However, until the retirement of Archbishop McQuaid in 1972, the Irish Roman Catholic bishops implemented a general ban on Roman Catholics entering Trinity College, with few exceptions, because of its largely Anglican ethos.

The Viceroy and the wealthiest part of the Anglican Church of Ireland minority made all political decisions in Ireland until 1800.

The Anglican Church ( formerly known as the Church of England ) remained the largest denomination until 1986, when it was surpassed by the Roman Catholic Church.

" James also converted to Catholicism, but eight or nine years after his wife ; however, he still attended Anglican services until as late as 1676.

As he was not to begin tutorials until 1911, he took the job of classics tutor to Harold MacMillan in the sabbatical, although he was later fired by Nellie MacMillan for being a high-church Anglican.

Richard Chenevix Trench ( Richard Trench until 1873 ; 9 September 1807 – 28 March 1886 ) was an Anglican archbishop and poet.

After the war he continued practising as a physician until 1948, when he was ordained to the presbyterate and sent to Britain to serve as Orthodox Christian Chaplain of the Fellowship of St. Alban and St. Sergius, a society established to foster understanding and friendship between the Orthodox and Anglican communions.

* The Guardian ( Anglican newspaper ), an Anglican newspaper founded in 1846 and running until 1951

The only place of worship in Wraysbury until 1827 was the Anglican Church of St Andrew.

Established in 1843 as Bishop's College, the school remained under the Anglican church's direction from its founding until 1947.

Up until the 1970s the town had several Welsh non-conformist chapels and the attendance of these was far in excess of that of the Anglican Church in the town.

It was the Anglican parish church of Llandudno until that status was transferred first to St George ’ s ( now closed ) and later to Holy Trinity Church in Mostyn Street.

Also, along with preaching bands, it formed the typical daily dress of Anglican clergy from the Reformation until the early 19th century.

The main landowners in Sheffield were the Dukes of Norfolk, and the Shrewsbury Chapel in the now Anglican parish church remained Catholic until 1933.