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6 unusual facts about Anglican Communion


Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary

The Anglican Communion Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary (celebrated December 8)

Dona Torr

The Torr family was listed in Burke's Landed Gentry and her grandfather, John Torr, had been a wealthy merchant in Liverpool, a Conservative M.P., and staunch Anglican.

Kobe Shoin Women's University

It was founded by missionaries in 1892 and maintains an affiliation with Nippon Sei Ko Kai (the Anglican Communion in Japan), although students may be of any religion.

Liturgy of St Tikhon

Some Episcopalians who wished to become Orthodox asked Bishop Tikhon whether they might be allowed to continue to use their Anglican liturgy, that of the American 1892 Book of Common Prayer (BCP).

Malcolm Boyle

His anthem "Thou, O God, art praised in Sion" still enjoys a place in the musical repertoire of the Anglican Communion.

Ronald Hall

As an emergency measure during the Second World War, with China under Japanese occupation, he ordained Li Tim-Oi as the first woman priest in the Anglican Communion


Anglican devotions

In addition to the authorized Prayer Book of the Church of England, most member churches of the Anglican Communion now have their own official versions, which may be used by individual Anglicans for their private devotions.

Apocrisiarius

In the modern Anglican Communion, representatives of the Archbishop of Canterbury to various churches are styled apocrisiarioi.

Bartonville Agreement

In his opening comments the host, Abbot Alberto Morales, encouraged those present "to let the Holy Spirit guide us and show us the way that we should go...that as we face the new millennium we may present to the world a portion of the Anglican Communion reconciled and united, which in turn, may be an example to imitate for all good and faithful Anglicans and for the Church in general." The result of the meeting was the signing of a "Call to prayer" for unity and a determination to meet again.

Beerbohm family

:::2 Dora Beerbohm (1868- 13 August 1940) In 1894 became a Sister in the Anglican Order of Sisters of Mercy at St Saviour's Priory in Ilford.

Bethlehem Nopece

Nopece upholds the orthodox Anglican stance on homosexuality and as such he condemned the consecration of Gene Robinson, the first non-celibate gay bishop of the Episcopal Church in 2003, as a defiant act to the Anglican Communion.

Branch theory

The branch theory is a theological hypothesis within Anglicanism, holding that the Roman Catholic Church, the Eastern Orthodox Church and the Anglican Communion are the three principal branches of the One, Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic Church.

Feast of the Annunciation

In the Catholic Church, Anglican, and Lutheran liturgical calendars, the feast is moved if necessary to prevent it from falling during Holy Week or Easter Week or on a Sunday.

Geneva gown

For this reason, the gown is sometimes (though rarely) found in "low church" parishes of the Anglican Communion, many whom desire a continuity with the stauncher Protestant stances of the church before the influence of the Oxford Movement.

Grădina Icoanei

The Bulandra Theatre (the Toma Caragiu stage, Sala Toma Caragiu), Ioanid Park (now called "Ion Voicu"), the Icoanei Church and the Anglican Church are located in the park's immediate vicinity.

John Bryson Chane

A Boston native, Chane was previously the dean of St. Paul's Cathedral in San Diego and served in congregations in Southborough, Massachusetts, Erie, Pennsylvania and Montvale, New Jersey.

Mary Gray-Reeves

At the 2008 meeting of the Lambeth Conferences of the Anglican Communion, Bishops Mary Gray-Reeves of El Camino Real, Michael Perham of Gloucester, and Gerard Mpango of Western Tanganyika formed a Partnership of their Dioceses.

Melanesian Mission

Today it continues to provide financial and staffing support for the Church of the Province of Melanesia, an independent province of the Anglican Communion.

Prayer of Humble Access

The prayer was an integral part of the early Books of Common Prayer of the Church of England and has continued to be used throughout much of the Anglican Communion.

Sexagesima

Most provinces of the Anglican Communion later followed in abolishing Sexagesima and the other pre-Lent Sundays, though they are retained wherever the Prayer Book Calendar is followed.

St. Dunstan's, Canterbury

Another of the windows commemorates the visit of Pope John Paul II to Canterbury to pray with the Anglican Archbishop of Canterbury at the site of the martyrdom of St. Thomas Becket in Canterbury Cathedral.

The Parson's Handbook

The Parson's Handbook is a book by Percy Dearmer, first published in 1899, that was fundamental to the development of liturgy in the Church of England and throughout the Anglican Communion.


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Anglican Catholic Church of Canada

On January 27, 2007 two suffragan bishops, the Right Reverend Craig Botterill and the Right Reverend Carl Reid, were consecrated by the Primate of the Traditional Anglican Communion, Archbishop John Hepworth, assisted by then Diocesan and Metropolitan of the ACCC, Bishop Peter Wilkinson (2005-2012), and retired former diocesan Bishop Robert Mercer, CR (1988-2005).

Anglo-Lutheran Catholic Church

The ACC has accepted major modifications in sacramental theology and principles of church government from the Church of Sweden (Lutheran), the Oxford Movement of the Anglican Communion, and the documents and teachings of the magisterium of the Roman Catholic Church which includes the Catechism of the Catholic Church (1994).

Branch theory

Although the Anglican Roman Catholic International Commission, an organization sponsored by the Anglican Consultative Council and the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity, seeks to make ecumenical progress between the Roman Catholic Church and the Anglican Communion, it has made no statement on the topic, and no support for the branch theory has been expressed anywhere outside Anglicanism itself.

Harwood Sturtevant

In 1948 he represented the Anglican Communion at the Old Catholic Congress in Hilversum, Holland by appointment of the Archbishop of Canterbury.

Hepworth

John Hepworth, Archbishop and Primate of the Traditional Anglican Communion

J. Robert Wright

As of July 2012, he is completing a study of the (Anglican) Thirty-Nine Articles of Religion with the assistance of his student Daniel Fowler, and his major essay on The Book of Common Prayer is soon to appear in The Blackwell Companion to the Anglican Communion.

Province of the Anglican Church of the Congo

In June 2012, Archbishop Henri Isingoma attended the Provincial Assembly of the Anglican Church in North America, in Ridgecrest, North Carolina, to show is full support for the new province in creation of the Anglican Communion.

Ruth Gledhill

Gledhill has argued in favour of the "benefits of schism" within the Anglican Communion, taking a critical stance against Peter Akinola and other church leaders with conservative views on homosexuality.

St Thomas Church Dhaka

It has been a member of the World Council of Churches since 1975 and functions as part of the larger worldwide Anglican Communion.