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Each of the autonomous member churches of the communion, however, does have a canonical system. Some, such as the Church of England, has an ancient, highly developed canon law while others, such as the Episcopal Church in the United States have more recently developed canonical systems originally based on the English canon law.
The Dennis Canon is a common (though unofficial and unfavored) name used for Title I.7.4 (as presently numbered) of the Canons of the Episcopal Church in the United States of America (also called The Episcopal Church, or TEC). The Canon seeks to impose a trust in favor of the Episcopal Church, on property held by a local group of Episcopal ...
The Episcopal Church in crisis: How sex, the bible, and authority are dividing the faithful (Greenwood, 2008). Painter, Bordon W. "The Vestry in Colonial New England." Historical Magazine of the Protestant Episcopal Church 44#4 (1975): 381–408. in JSTOR; Prichard, Robert W., ed. Readings from the History of the Episcopal Church. (1986).
Canon law (from Ancient Greek: κανών, kanon, a 'straight measuring rod, ruler') is a set of ordinances and regulations made by ecclesiastical authority (church leadership) for the government of a Christian organization or church and its members.
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 ...
In canon law, a canon designates some law promulgated by a synod, an ecumenical council, or an individual bishop. [2] The word "canon" comes from the Greek kanon, which in its original usage denoted a straight rod that was later the instrument used by architects and artificers as a measuring stick for making straight lines.
The United Episcopal Church of North America (UECNA) is a church in the Anglican tradition and is part of the Continuing Anglican movement. It is not part of the Anglican Communion . The UECNA describes itself as "embracing the broad base of ceremonial practice inherent in the Historic Anglican Communion" [ 1 ] although historically the UECNA ...
The title canon Episcopi (or capitulum Episcopi) is conventionally given to a certain passage found in medieval canon law. The text possibly originates in an early 10th-century penitential , recorded by Regino of Prüm ; it was included in Gratian's authoritative Corpus juris canonici of c. 1140 ( Decretum Gratiani , causa 26, quaestio 5, canon ...