Church of England
n. Anglican Church, official Church of England (Catholic in origin but independent from the Pope and influenced by Protestantism) | ||||
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Church of England Definition from Language, Idioms & Slang Dictionaries & Glossaries
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Church of England
Noun
1. the national church of England (and all other churches in other countries that share its beliefs); has its see in Canterbury and the Sovereign as its temporal head
(synonym) Anglican Church, Anglican Communion
(hypernym) Protestant denomination
(hyponym) Episcopal Church, Protestant Episcopal Church
(member-meronym) Anglican Catholic
(classification) church service, church
(class) Evening Prayer, evensong
Noun
1. the national church of England (and all other churches in other countries that share its beliefs); has its see in Canterbury and the Sovereign as its temporal head
(synonym) Anglican Church, Anglican Communion
(hypernym) Protestant denomination
(hyponym) Episcopal Church, Protestant Episcopal Church
(member-meronym) Anglican Catholic
(classification) church service, church
(class) Evening Prayer, evensong
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Church of England Definition from Encyclopedia Dictionaries & Glossaries
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Church of England
The Church of England is the officially established Christian church in England, and is the "mother" of the worldwide Anglican Communion, the oldest among its nearly 40 independent national churches.
The Church of England considers itself to stand both in a reformed tradition and in a catholic one (as in , meaning "pertaining to the whole"):
- Reformed insofar as many of the principles of the early Protestants as well as the subsequent Protestant Reformation have influenced it, and insofar as it does not accept Papal authority.
- Catholic in that it views itself as the unbroken continuation of the early apostolic and later medieval universal church, rather than as a new formation. In its customs and liturgy it has retained more of that tradition than most other reformed churches.
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