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The word Episcopal ("of or pertaining to bishops") is preferred in the title of the Episcopal Church (the province of the Anglican Communion covering the United States) and the Scottish Episcopal Church, though the full name of the former is The Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America.
The Anglican confessions are considered Protestant, and more specifically, Reformed, [15] and leaders of the English Reformation were influenced by Calvinist, rather than Lutheran theologians. Still the Church of England retained elements of Catholicism such as bishops and vestments , unlike continental Reformed churches , and thus was ...
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. It is a mainline Protestant denomination and is divided into nine provinces.
Anglican doctrine (also called Episcopal doctrine in some countries) is the body of Christian teachings used to guide the religious and moral practices of Anglicanism. [ 1 ] Thomas Cranmer , the guiding Reformer that led to the development of Anglicanism as a distinct tradition under the English Reformation , compiled the original Book of ...
The high church are the beliefs and practices of Christian ecclesiology, liturgy, and theology that emphasize "ritual, priestly authority, [and] sacraments". [1] Although used in connection with various Christian traditions, the term originated in and has been principally associated with the Anglican tradition, where it describes churches using a number of ritual practices associated in the ...
The first Anglican missionaries arrived in Nigeria in 1842 and the first Anglican Nigerian was consecrated a bishop in 1864. However, the arrival of a rival group of Anglican missionaries in 1887 led to infighting that slowed the Church's growth. In this large African colony, by 1900 there were only 35,000 Anglicans, about 0.2% of the population.
The suppression and marginalisation of Prayer Book Protestants during the 1640s and 1650s had made the prayer book "an undisputed identifier of an emerging Anglican self-consciousness." [ 115 ] Historian Judith Maltby writes that Anglicanism as a recognisable tradition "owes more to the Restoration than the Reformation". [ 116 ]
All Souls Church, Langham Place is an evangelical congregation in the Church of England.. Evangelical Anglicanism or Evangelical Episcopalianism is a tradition or church party within Anglicanism that shares affinity with broader evangelicalism.