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54 unusual facts about Church of England


Academic dress of the University of Oxford

A similar garment (in scarlet or black) is worn over a white rochet by bishops in the Church of England e.g. when sitting in the House of Lords.

Albion W. Knight, Jr.

He later helped found the Church of England (Continuing), a conservative church in England that opposes both the growth of Anglo-Catholic practices and doctrines within the Church of England and the more liberal religious and social stance of the Church of England.

Alfred Hutchinson Dymond

Originally a Quaker, in 1852, Dymond married Helen Susannah Henderson, an Anglican, and later became active in the Anglican church.

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.

Anglican Diocese of Southwark

In other ecclesiatical use, although having lost religious orders in the English Reformation, the diocese has the London home of the Archbishop of Canterbury and records centre of the Church of England in the diocese, Lambeth Palace.

Athanase Laurent Charles Coquerel

In 1817 he was invited to become pastor of the chapel of St Paul at Jersey, but he declined, being unwilling to subscribe to the Thirty-nine Articles of the Church of England.

Bergen Anglican Church

Bergen Anglican Church are a part of the Archdeaconry of Germany and Northern Europe in the Diocese of Gibraltar in Europe, which is part of the province of Canterbury in the Church of England.

Black Rubric

The term Black Rubric is the popular name for the declaration found at the end of the "Order for the Administration of the Lord's Supper" in the Prayer Book of the Church of England (BCP) which explains why the communicants should kneel and excludes possible misunderstandings of this action.

British industrial mission

Bishop Leslie Hunter, Bishop of Sheffield, was concerned that the Church of England had been losing touch with people in the industrialised cities during the inter-war years, and sent the Revd.

Burnett Hillman Streeter

He was ordained in 1899 and was a member of the Archbishop’s Commission on Doctrine in the Church of England (from 1922 to 1937).

Cape Island, Newfoundland and Labrador

According to the 1836 Census, 98 of the 100 inhabitants at Cape Island belonged to the Church of England and two were Roman Catholic.

Carenza Lewis

Educated at the school (since closed) of the Church of England Community of All Hallows, Norfolk, and at the University of Cambridge, in 1985 she joined the Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England (now part of English Heritage) as a field archaeologist for Wessex.

Cathedral constable

Cathedral constables are employed by a small number of Church of England cathedrals in England.

Cecilia Young

Her father, however, was opposed to their marrying as Arne was a Roman Catholic and did not follow the teachings of the Church of England.

Central Churchmanship

Central Churchmen value both the official liturgies of the Church of England, which they clothe in a moderate amount of ceremonial and a characteristically Anglican way of doing theology that is rooted in the Bible, and the Councils and Creeds of the Early Church, whilst acknowledging the contribution made by the English Reformation.

Chaplain-General of Prisons

He is also an ex officio member of the House of Clergy of the General Synod.

Church of St. Mary Magdalene, Bridgnorth

The Church of St. Mary Magdalene, Bridgnorth, is a Parish Church in the Church of England.

David Durand

He moved to England in 1711 and served as a pastor to the Church of England French-speaking churches in London.

Deanery synod

In the Church of England and other Anglican churches, a deanery synod is a synod convened by the Rural Dean (or Area Dean) and/or the Joint Lay Chair of the Deanery Synod, who is elected by the elected lay members.

Diocese of Madhya Kerala of the Church of South India

The Madhya Kerala Diocese is one of the twenty-two dioceses of the Church of South India (Commonly referred as CSI) (successor of the Church of England) covering the central part of Kerala.

Eaton Hodgkinson

She sent her son to Witton Grammar School in Northwich where he studied the classics with the intention that he would fulfill the family's ambition that he prepares for a career in the Church of England.

Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction Measure 1963

The Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction Measure 1963 was introduced to simplify ecclestical law as it applied to the Church of England, following the recommendations of the 1954 Archbishops' Commission on Ecclesiastical Courts.

Edwin Hatch

Hatch attended King Edward's School, Birmingham, where he studied under James Prince Lee, who later became the Bishop of Manchester; it was during this period of his life that he was first noted for his strong mental independence and extreme study habits, as well as when he joined the Church of England (having been raised a nonconformist).

Eminent Victorians

In Cardinal Manning's story, the background is the creation of the Oxford Movement and the defection of an influential group of Church of England clergy to the Catholic Church.

Endianness

It is widely assumed that Swift was either alluding to the historic War of the Roses or – more likely – parodying through oversimplification the religious discord in England and Scotland brought about by the conflicts between the Roman Catholics (Big Endians) on the one side and the Anglicans and Presbyterians (Little Endians) on the other.

English Churchman

The paper has a reputation for being outspokenly and unashamedly Protestant, Evangelical, Reformed and anti-ecumenical, believing that the Thirty-Nine Articles of the Church of England are good and true and so it does not recognise non-evangelical Churches as being truly Christian because they have erred in doctrine and practice.

Feast of the Immaculate Conception

In the Church of England, the "Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary" may be observed as a Lesser Festival on 8 December.

Foochow Romanized

Subsequent missionaries, including Robert S. Maclay from American Methodist Episcopal Mission, R. W. Stewart from the Church of England and Charles Hartwell from the American Board Mission, further modified White's System in several ways.

Franz Hildebrandt

In spite of his close relationship with Bell, Hildebrandt could not bring himself to join the Church of England, and become a Priest within that church, since that would have required renewed ordination by an Anglican bishop – something that Hildebrandt could not accept since it would have implicitly declared his ordination in Germany as invalid.

Greater Churches Group

The Greater Churches Network is a self-help organisation within the Church of England.

History of Methodism in Ripley Derbyshire

The Methodists formed a new church in the early 18th century as a break away movement from the established Church (Church of England), mainly by two Anglican ministers, John Wesley, the preacher and his brother, Charles Wesley, the hymn writer.

Horace Lambart, 11th Earl of Cavan

The Venerable Horace Edward Samuel Sneade Lambart, 11th Earl of Cavan TD (25 August 1878 – 9 December 1950) was an Anglo-Irish soldier and Anglican priest.

House of Commons Disqualification Act 1975

Since the House of Commons (Removal of Clergy Disqualification) Act 2001, no clergy except for Church of England bishops (see Lords Spiritual) are now prohibited from serving.

John Cunningham, 15th Earl of Glencairn

For some time Lord John Cunningham was an officer in the 14th Royal Dragoons, but afterwards entered into Holy Orders of the Church of England.

John Hillyard Cameron

He was a loyal follower of the Church of England and tried to defend its interests, including the revenue from the clergy reserves.

John Poynder

He was eldest son of a tradesman in the city of London; his mother belonged to the evangelical wing of the Church of England.

John Whishaw

While a student he lost a leg, disqualifying him for an intended career in the Church of England.

Methodist Church of Great Britain

A later development of Whitfield's ministry was the Free Church of England, a result of Whitfield's influence upon the Church of England.

The movement which would become the Methodist Church began in the mid-18th century within the Church of England.

Mission Praise

Mission Praise is a hymn book used in a wide variety of churches, especially in Britain, including the Church of Scotland and the Church of England.

Mount Zion Cemetery, Jerusalem

Since its original beneficiary, the Bishopric of Jerusalem was maintained as a joint venture of the Anglican Church of England and the Evangelical Church in Prussia, a united Protestant Landeskirche of Lutheran and Reformed congregations, until 1886, the Jerusalem Lutheran congregation preserved a right to bury congregants there also after the Jerusalem Bishopric had become a solely Anglican diocese.

Old Dean

The estate has a parade of convenience and service shops which are near its centre, a doctor's surgery, three parks, a youth centre and three churches (Church of England St Martin's, Roman Catholic St Peter's & St John's and Newfrontiers' The Beacon Church).

Partlow, Virginia

Partlow is also home to Wallers Baptist Church, a historically notable church founded in 1769, known for the notorious persecutions against its founding pastor, John "Swearing Jack" Waller, by the Church of England.

Places of Worship Registration Act 1855

It applies only in England and Wales, and does not cover the Church of England (that country's Established Church): it is exempt from the Act's requirements.

Raman Bedi

Professor Bedi was an elected member of the General Synod of the Church of England from 1995 to 2005 and chaired the Archbishop's Council (Church of England) Urban and Community Affairs Committee (1996–2001).

Resistance: Fall of Man

Sony and Insomniac Games have since become embattled with the Church of England for using interior shots of Manchester Cathedral to recreate the building within the game, as well as "promoting violence" within the building.

The combat scenes that take place within a virtual representation of Manchester Cathedral in England caused controversy with the leaders of the Church of England.

Rye by-election, 1903

Hutchinson by contrast described the Education Act as a gross injustice to non-conformists and relied on appeals to religion elsewhere in his campaign calling for the maintenance of the Protestant character of the Church of England.

Saint James, Jamestown

In 1671, the East India Company sent the first of a long sequence of Church of England chaplains.

Share Jesus International

The Board of Share Jesus International includes leaders from the following agencies: Methodist Church, Scripture Union, Baptist Union of Great Britain, Youth for Christ, Ichthus Christian Fellowship, Church of England Board of Mission, The Salvation Army, Premier Christian Radio, Evangelical Alliance, Churches Together in England, and United Reformed Church.

Solemn Declaration of 1893

Until the 1830s, the Anglican church in Canada was synonymous with the Church of England: bishops were appointed and priests supplied by the church in England, and funding for the church came from the British Parliament.

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.

Towards the conversion of England

Towards the Conversion of England was a 1945 report produced by the Church of England Commission on Evangelism, chaired by the evangelical Bishop of Rochester, Christopher Chavasse.

Washington District, South Carolina

In the colonial period, the land around the coast was divided into parishes corresponding to the parishes of the Church of England.


Baron Rothschild

(Benjamin Disraeli, though born into a Jewish family, was a member of the Church of England.)

Bow, Devon

In the late 19th and early 20th centuries Bow was spiritually divided between the Church of England, the Congregationalists and the Plymouth Brethren.

Charles Henry Wharton

In May, 1784, having adopted the views of the Church of England, he published his celebrated "Letter to the Roman Catholics of Worcester" (Philadelphia, 1784), and became rector of Immanuel Church, New Castle, Delaware.

Charles Walder Grinstead

Charles Walder Grinstead was born on 1 December 1860 in East Teignmouth, Devon, England, the son of Charles Grinstead (a Church of England cleric) and his wife Sarah A. (née Stanley).

Chelsea Old Church

The Chelsea Old Church, also known as All Saints, is an Anglican church, on Old Church Street, Chelsea, London SW3, England, near Albert Bridge.

Christ Church, Birmingham

Christ Church, Birmingham was a parish church in the Church of England on Colmore Row, Birmingham from 1805 to 1899.

Christianity in the United States

The Church of England was legally established in the colony in 1619; 22 Anglican clergyman arrived by 1624.

Church of Pakistan

Its most internationally famous clergyman, Bishop Michael Nazir-Ali, formerly diocesan bishop of Raiwind in West Punjab, was given sanctuary by Robert Runcie, the then-Archbishop of Canterbury when his life was imperilled; he then taught at Oxford and served as Bishop of Rochester, England.

Church of St. Mary the Virgin, Plumtree

The Church of St. Mary the Virgin, Plumtree is a parish church in the Church of England in Plumtree, Nottinghamshire.

Clergy reserve

Although the first lieutenant governor of Upper Canada, John Graves Simcoe interpreted Protestant clergy to mean the clergy of Church of England only, by 1824, the Church of Scotland was also granted a share of the projected revenues.

Development of doctrine

Newman used the idea of development of doctrine to defend Catholic teaching from attacks by some Anglicans and other Protestants, who saw certain elements in Catholic teaching as corruptions or innovations.

Fisherton Delamere

The Church of England parish church, St Nicholas's Church, built in the 14th century in a chequerboard pattern of flint and Chilmark stone, sits on a hill overlooking the River Wylye at the centre of the village.

Fresh expression

In September 2005 the Church of England and the Methodist Church recognised this movement by setting up an organisation, 'Fresh Expressions' (capitalised), to monitor and encourage fresh expressions in those denominations and the partnership has since expanded to include a number of other denominations and organisations in the UK.

George Augustus Frederic II

The will granted considerable power to the Superintendent, Alexander MacDonald to appoint councilors, and gave the council full power to institute and change laws, aside from the law establishing the Church of England as the official church.

George Harris, 3rd Baron Harris

Harris was beset will ill-health and remained bed-ridden for some time in the city of Pau in France where he worked for a time for the Church of England.

Henry Tattam

Henry Tattam (28 December 1788 – 8 January 1868, Stanford Rivers, Essex) was a Church of England clergyman and Coptic scholar.

House of St Barnabas

The Chapel is a reminder of the Anglo-Catholic revival in the Church of England spearheaded by men like Newman, Pusey and Keble and the Tracts, 1833-1841, that earned them the name Tractarians.

Hugh M‘Neile

Early in 1822, his preaching in London so impressed the banker and parliamentarian Henry Drummond (1786–1860) that Drummond appointed M‘Neile to the living of the parish of Albury Park, Surrey, from where M‘Neile’s first collection of sermons, Seventeen Sermons, etc.

Injinoo, Queensland

Although self-sufficient, through fishing and gardening, the Community made requests to the then Church of England to establish a mission and school.

John Gummer

Son of a Church of England minister, Gummer is the brother of Peter Gummer, Baron Chadlington, one of the foremost players in the British PR industry.

John Kenneth Pennington

John Kenneth Pennington (1927–25 August 2011) was a priest in the Church of England, Nottingham City Councillor and Sheriff of Nottingham.

Joseph Priestley and Dissent

Between 1660 and 1665, Parliament passed a series of laws that restricted the rights of dissenters: they could not hold political office, teach school, serve in the military or attend Oxford and Cambridge unless they ascribed to the thirty-nine Articles of the Church of England.

Peter Bailey Williams

Peter Bayley Williams (August 1763 – 22 November 1836) was a Welsh Anglican priest and amateur antiquarian.

Richard Rubinstein

After converting from Judaism to the Church of England, he married Gay, with whom he had been friends since their childhood, in 1943.

Royal Naval Cemetery

The majority of World War II (1939-1945) graves are together in the Church of England section, near the Cross of Sacrifice, which itself was erected after the first war to commemorate the men near the southern wall of the western part overlooking the harbour.

Sarn, Powys

The historic parish church is Holy Trinity, part of the Ridgeway Benefice, in the Clun Forest deanery of the Church of England's Diocese of Hereford.

Seditious libel

A statement is seditious if it "brings into hatred or contempt" either the Queen or her heirs, the government and constitution, either House of Parliament, the administration of justice, if it incites people to attempt to change any matter of Church or State established by law (except by lawful means), or if it promotes discontent among or hostility between British subjects.

Septuagesima

In the Church of England these Sundays retain their original designations where the Prayer Book Calendar is followed, but in the Common Worship Calendar they have been subsumed into a pre-Lent season of variable length, with anything from zero to five "Sundays before Lent" depending on the date of Easter.

Soke of Peterborough

The Church of England, however, still describes the diocese as consisting of Northamptonshire, Rutland and the Soke of Peterborough (i.e. the part of the city north of the River Nene).

St Hilda's Church of England High School

St Hilda's Church of England High School is a Church of England secondary school with a sixth form, located in Croxteth Drive, Sefton Park, Liverpool (post code: L17 3AL).

St John's Anglican Church, Dalby

The Reverend Benjamin Glennie had a plan to establish the (then) Church of England on the Darling Downs through four churches in the larger towns named after the four apostles: Matthew, Mark, Luke and John.

The Communards

Coles followed his Christian leanings and, after periods as a journalist for the Times Literary Supplement and Catholic Herald, he was ordained in the Church of England, spending time as the curate of St Botolph's (The Stump) in Boston, Lincolnshire and as assistant priest at St Paul's Knightsbridge and Chaplain to the Royal College of Music.

Vernon Corea

Vernon Corea was a Christian, he was very involved in the work of the church in the UK - he was a Lay Reader of the Church of England at Emmanuel Church in Wimbledon Village, South-West London and previous to that appointment he was Lay Reader at Christ Church, Gipsy Hill in South-East London.

Welford, Northamptonshire

There is a Church of England parish church, St Mary's, which according to Pevsner dating from c.13th century and with a north aisle and arcade of 1872 by Edmund Francis Law).