# The Anglican Consultative Council ( first met in 1971 ) was created by a 1968 Lambeth Conference resolution, and meets usually at three year intervals.

# 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.

The General Synod and the College of Bishops of Chung Hwa Sheng Kung Hui planned to publish a unified version for the use of all Anglican churches in China in 1949, which was the 400th anniversary of the first publishing of the Book of Common Prayer.

The Anglican Church of Canada developed its first Book of Common Prayer separately from the English version in 1918, which received final authorization from General Synod in 1922.

They developed in the socio-economic and political cleavages that existed during the first three decades of the 19th century, and had the support of the business, professional and established Church ( Anglican ) elites in Ontario and to a lesser extent in Quebec.

Many Protestants ( especially those belonging to the magisterial traditions, such as Lutherans, or those such as Methodists, that broke away from the Anglican Communion ) accept the teachings of the first seven councils but do not ascribe to the councils themselves the same authority as Roman Catholics and the Eastern Orthodox do.

This has been reinforced by the Lambeth Conferences of Anglican Communion bishops, which first met in 1867.

The draft presented to the Council on 8 March drew no serious criticism, but a group of 35 English-speaking bishops, who feared that the opening phrase of the first chapter, " Sancta romana catholica Ecclesia " ( the holy Roman Catholic Church ), might be construed as favouring the Anglican Branch Theory, later succeeded in having an additional adjective inserted, so that the final text read: " Sancta catholica apostolica romana Ecclesia " ( the holy Catholic Apostolic Roman Church ).

" 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.

By the first half of the 18th century, the Authorized Version was effectively unchallenged as the English translation used in Anglican and Protestant churches.

** Augustine of Canterbury, Missionary, first Archbishop of Canterbury, ( Anglican Communion and Eastern Orthodox )

The macron is used in the orthography of a number of vernacular languages of the Solomon Islands and Vanuatu, particularly those which were first transcribed by Anglican missionaries.

Among its first duties was the forcible seizure of tithes during the " Tithe War " on behalf of the Anglican clergy from the mainly Catholic population as well as the Presbyterian minority.

The word " Puritan " is applied unevenly to a number of Protestant churches ( and religious groups within the Anglican Church ) from the later 16th century onwards, and Puritans did not originally use the term for themselves, considering that it was a term of abuse that first surfaced in the 1560s.

The Anglican Book of Common Prayer requires that all who are to be confirmed should first know and understand the Creed, the Lord's Prayer, and the Ten Commandments, and be able to answer the other questions in the Church Catechism.

In 1859 the Anglican Diocese of St Helena was set up for St Helena, including Ascension Island and Tristan da Cunha ( initially also including the Falkland Islands, Rio de Janeiro and other towns along the east coast of South America ), the first Bishop of St Helena arriving on the island that year.

* 1986 – Desmond Tutu becomes the first black man to lead the Anglican Church in South Africa.

The Great Divorce was first printed as a serial in an Anglican newspaper called The Guardian in 1944 and 1945, and soon thereafter in book form.

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

* June 24 – Kathleen Young and Irene Templeton are ordained as priests in St Anne's Cathedral, Belfast, becoming the first female Anglican priests in the United Kingdom.

This is the first time that any chief of the Anglican Church had ever visited the Pope.

** Desmond Tutu becomes the first black Anglican Church bishop in South Africa.

* February 11 – Barbara Clementine Harris is consecrated as the first female bishop of the Episcopal Church in the United States of America ( and also the first female bishop in the worldwide Anglican Communion ).

Alger of Liège ( 1055 – 1131 ), known also as Alger of Cluny and Algerus Magister, was a learned clergyman from Liège who lived in the first half of the 12th century.

Of the first, a clergyman near Cambridge, Babbage said, " I fear I did not derive from it all the advantages that I might have done.

Digby, the first to mount the scaffold, asked the spectators for forgiveness, and refused the attentions of a Protestant clergyman.

* 1789 – Whiskey distilled from maize is first produced by American clergyman the Rev Elijah Craig.

He was raised in Warsaw, Illinois, and educated first at the private school of the Reverend Stephen Childs, an Episcopal clergyman.

The book Coleridge was reading before he fell asleep was Purchas, his Pilgrimage, or Relations of the World and Religions Observed in All Ages and Places Discovered, from the Creation to the Present, by the English clergyman and geographer Samuel Purchas, first written in 1613.

Although Bismarck hoped to become a diplomat, he started his practical training as a lawyer in Aachen and Potsdam, and soon resigned, having first placed his career in jeopardy by taking unauthorized leave to pursue two English girls, first Laura Russell, niece of the Duke of Cleveland, and then Isabella Loraine-Smith, daughter of a wealthy clergyman.

The first mention of the Yule log in Britain is a written account by the clergyman Robert Herrick, from the 1620s or 1630s.

* Pal Engjëlli ( 1416-1470 ) was an Albanian Catholic clergyman, Archbishop of Durrës and Cardinal of Albania who in 1462 wrote the first known sentence in Albanian.

* April 29 – John Andrews, American clergyman, Provost of the University of Pennsylvania, considered " America's first scholar " ( b. 1746 )

* April 4 – John Andrews, American clergyman, Provost of the University of Pennsylvania, considered " America's first scholar " ( d. 1813 )

* Archibald Alexander ( 1772 – 1851 ), born in Rockbridge County, noted Presbyterian clergyman, president of Hampden-Sydney College and one of the founders of and the first professor of Princeton Theological Seminary

* Samuel Doak, ( 1749 – 1830 ), born in Augusta County, noted Presbyterian clergyman, founder of Washington College, the first college west of the Alleghenies, noted abolitionist

Archdeacon Hoccleve, a married clergyman for whom Belinda has long nurtured a passion, is believed to be based on Pym's first love, Henry Harvey.

Early inhabitants included Robert Morris, Sr., agent for a Liverpool shipping firm who greatly influenced the town's growth ; his son, Robert Morris, Jr., known as " the financier of the Revolution ;" Jeremiah Banning, sea captain, war hero, and statesman ; The Reverend Thomas Bacon, Anglican clergyman who wrote the first compilation of the laws of Maryland ; Matthew Tilghman, known as the " patriarch of Maryland " and " father of statehood "; and Colonel Tench Tilghman, aide-de-camp to George Washington and the man who carried the message of General Cornwallis's surrender to the Continental Congress in Philadelphia.

* Henry Durant ( 1803 – 1875 ), Congregational clergyman, first president of College of California, two-term mayor of Oakland, California

Gilbert Carpenter, the founder of the village, came from Wilkes Barre, Pennsylvania, and was the first Methodist clergyman in Delaware County.

John Rogers ( c. 1500 – 4 February 1555 ) was a clergyman, Bible translator and commentator, and the first English Protestant martyr under Mary I of England.

Samuel Augustus Barnett ( 8 February 1844 – 17 June 1913 ) was an Anglican clergyman and social reformer particularly associated with the establishment of the first university settlement, Toynbee Hall in east London in 1884.

She herself has been on the island for only four days ; she came with an elderly priest to evacuate another clergyman, only to find the Japanese had gotten there first.

The value of their friendship was first disclosed by a friend of Carr's, clergyman and writer G. Wharton James.

Turning to another field, Milman published in 1829 his History of the Jews, which is memorable as the first by an English clergyman which treated the Jews as an Oriental tribe, recognized sheikhs and amirs in the Old Testament, sifted and classified documentary evidence, and evaded or minimized the miraculous.

* Samuel Johnson ( 1696 – 1772 ), clergyman and the first president of the Anglican King's College ( which later became Columbia University )

Paul Sabatier ( August 3, 1858 – March 4, 1928 ), was a French clergyman and historian who produced the first modern biography of St. Francis of Assisi.