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

but my primary aim is to transcribe what Englishmen themselves are saying and writing and implying about the Roman and Anglican Churches and about the present religious state of England.

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

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 ).

In Canada, where the Act of Settlement is now a part of Canadian constitutional law, Tony O ' Donohue, a Canadian civic politician, took issue with the provisions that exclude Roman Catholics from the throne, and which make the monarch of Canada the Supreme Governor of the Church of England, requiring him or her to be an Anglican.

" 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.

The Archbishop of Canterbury is the senior bishop and principal leader of the Church of England, the symbolic head of the worldwide Anglican Communion and the diocesan bishop of the Diocese of Canterbury.

# As spiritual leader of the Anglican Communion, the archbishop, although without legal authority outside England, is recognised by convention as primus inter pares ( first among equals ) of all Anglican primates worldwide.

Since the break the Church of England, an established national church, still considers itself part of the broader Western Catholic tradition as well as being the " mother church " of the worldwide Anglican Communion.

The Anglican Church of Australia, until 1981 officially known as the Church of England in Australia and Tasmania, became self-governing in 1961.

As in England, while many prayers were retained the structure of the Communion service was altered: a Prayer of Oblation was added to the Eucharistic prayer after the ' words of institution ', thus reflecting the rejection of Cranmer's theology in liturgical developments across the Anglican Communion.

Costa Rica ( Roman Catholic ), Denmark ( Evangelical Lutheran ), El Salvador ( Roman Catholic ), England ( Anglican ), Finland ( Evangelical Lutheran & Orthodox ), Georgia ( Georgian Orthodox ), Greece ( Greek Orthodox ), Iceland ( Evangelical Lutheran ), Liechtenstein ( Roman Catholic ), Malta ( Roman Catholic ), Monaco ( Roman Catholic ), and Vatican City ( Roman Catholic ).

A special grouping are the Anglican churches descended from the Church of England and organised in the Anglican Communion.

Since the English Reformation, only Saint Charles Stuart has been canonized in the Church of England and the Anglican Communion.

* Church of England, the state church of the United Kingdom and mother church of the Anglican Communion, also referred to as the C of E

The longest standing group for lesbian and gay Christians in the UK, founded in 1976, is the non-denominational Lesbian and Gay Christian Movement ; specifically aimed to meet the needs of lesbian and gay evangelicals, there is the Evangelical Fellowship for Lesbian and Gay Christians ; specifically working within the Church of England is Changing Attitude, which also takes an international focus in working for gay, lesbian, bisexual & transgender affirmation within the Anglican Communion.

Orwell was a communicant member of the Church of England, he attended holy communion regularly, and allusions to Anglican life are made in his book A Clergyman's Daughter.

" Yet, he was married according to the rites of the Church of England in both his first marriage at the church at Wallington, and in his second marriage on his deathbed in University College Hospital, and he left instructions that he was to receive an Anglican funeral.

Hildegard of Bingen also appears in the calendar of saints of various Anglican churches, such as that of the Church of England, in which she is commemorated on 17 September.

Initially Whitefield and the Wesleys merely sought reform, by way of a return to the gospel, within the Church of England, but the movement spread with revival and soon a significant number of Anglican clergy became known as Methodists in the mid-18th century.

The Bible that the Anglican Church of Korea uses is the 1994 edition called the " gong-dong beon-yuk-seong-seo " or the Common Translation Bible.

Chrismation is the name given in Eastern Orthodox, Oriental Orthodox and Eastern Catholic churches, as well as in the Assyrian Church of the East, Anglican, and in Lutheran initiation rites, to the Sacrament or Sacred Mystery more commonly known in the West as confirmation, although Italian normally uses cresima ( chrismation ), rather than confermazione ( confirmation ).

The worship is mainly Eucharistic and uses both traditional and modern Anglican services.

The other exception is the Anglican Church usually rejects the Catholic " Church violet " for bishops, and instead uses purple.

The Anglican Ordinariate currently uses a lectionary based on the RSV — Second Catholic Edition ; however, the publisher of these lectionaries, Ignatius Press, has discontinued and remaindered them, so it is unknown what the fate of the Ordinariate's lectionary will be.

The APA uses Béthanie and the cow sheds for various educational purposes, but also lends the chapel in Béthanie to St. John's Cathedral ( Anglican ) as the locale for Emmanuel Church-Pokfulam, a daughter ( subordinate ) church serving the west of Hong Kong island.

Hymns Old and New ( New Anglican Edition-published by Kevin Mayhew Ltd ) uses Wurttemberg with Alleluias ( attributed to Hundert Arien, Dresden 1694 ) for ' Christ the Lord is Risen Again '.

The Western Rite Orthodoxy uses adaptations to the Orthodox nous of the Roman Canon ( Divine Liturgy of Saint Gregory ) or of the Anglican Book of Common Prayer ( Divine Liturgy of Saint Tikhon ) or own reconstructions of ancient Gallican liturgies ( Liturgy of Saint Germanus or The Liturgy of Saint John the Divine ).

At the funerals, the priest uses the phrase " Ashes to ashes, dust to dust ", from the Anglican burial service.

In the Roman Rite ( pre-1970 form ), and in similar Anglican and Lutheran uses, a pre-Lenten season lasts from Septuagesima Sunday until Shrove Tuesday and has thus also been known as Shrovetide.