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Anglican worship, however, is as diverse as Anglican theology. A contemporary "low church" service may differ little from the worship of many mainstream non-Anglican Protestant churches. The service is constructed around a sermon focused on Biblical exposition and opened with one or more Bible readings and closed by a series of prayers (both ...
The Church of Ireland and the Church in Wales separated from the Church of England in 1869 [193] and 1920 [194] respectively and are autonomous churches in the Anglican Communion; Scotland's national church, the Church of Scotland, is Presbyterian, but the Scottish Episcopal Church is part of the Anglican Communion. [195]
Anglican Church of Australia – 3.1 million [43] Anglican Church of Southern Africa – 3 million [44] [45] Anglican Church of Tanzania – 2.0 million [46] Episcopal Church in the United States – 1.6 million [47] Church of North India – 1.5 million [48] Province of the Episcopal Church of Sudan – 1.1 million; Anglican Church of Rwanda ...
The Protestants could celebrate the growing access to vernacular scripture as most churches had Bibles by 1545. [ 112 ] [ 113 ] The iconoclastic policies of 1538 were continued in the autumn when the Archbishops of Canterbury and York were ordered to destroy all the remaining shrines in England. [ 114 ]
Consecrated in 1612, Saint Peter's Church, in St George's, Bermuda, is the oldest Church of England (now Anglican) church outside the British Isles, and the oldest Protestant church in the New World. Anglicanism spread outside of the British Isles by means of emigration as well as missionary effort.
Though many Anglicans are members of religious orders recognized by the Anglican Communion, others may be members of ecumenical Protestant or Old Catholic religious orders while maintaining their Anglican identity and parochial membership in Anglican churches.
The Episcopal Church (TEC), also officially the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America (PECUSA), [6] is a member church of the worldwide Anglican Communion based in the United States with additional dioceses elsewhere.
The Protestant Church is the youngest of these, resulting from the Reformation of 1517 which was in protest of major problems within the Roman Catholic Church. In England and Wales, Protestantism was definitively established in the 1530s when Henry VIII separated the Church of England from Rome. The Protestant church does not have one human ...