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Fresh expressions is a Church of England missionary initiative to youth begun in 2005, and has ministries at a skate park [99] through the efforts of St George's Church, Benfleet, Essex, the Diocese of Chelmsford, or youth groups with evocative names, like the C.L.A.W (Christ Little Angels – Whatever!) youth group at Coventry Cathedral.
It is the location of St Peter's Church, the oldest-surviving Anglican church outside the British Isles (Britain and Ireland), and the oldest surviving non-Roman Catholic church in the New World, also established in 1612. It remained part of the Church of England until 1978, when the Anglican Church of Bermuda separated.
In the years 1968 to 1999, Anglican Sunday church attendances almost halved, from 3.5 percent of the population to 1.9 per cent. [184] By 2014, Sunday church attendances had declined further to 1.4 per cent of the population. [185]
The first Anglican church in Latin America, St. John's Cathedral (Belize City), was built in the colony of British Honduras in 1812. Soon afterwards, in 1835 and 1837, the sees of Madras and Bombay were founded, while in 1836 Broughton himself was consecrated as the first Bishop of Australia. Thus down to 1840 there were but ten colonial ...
The Anglican Communion is the third largest Christian communion after the Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox churches. [2] [3] [4] Formally founded in 1867 in London, the communion has more than 85 million members [5] [6] [7] within the Church of England and other autocephalous national and regional churches in full communion. [8]
The Anglican Church in North America was founded by ... pledging "to make common cause for the gospel of Jesus Christ ... the year the church was founded when the ...
Anglican Marian theology is the summation of the doctrines and beliefs of Anglicanism concerning Mary, mother of Jesus.As Anglicans believe that Jesus was both human and God the Son, the second Person of the Trinity, within the Anglican Communion and Continuing Anglican movement, Mary is accorded honour [citation needed] as the theotokos, a Koiné Greek term that means "God-bearer" or "one who ...
In the same year, Augustine consecrated Justus as the first bishop of Rochester for the people of west Kent. [26] Upon Augustine's death around 604, he was succeeded as archbishop by Laurence of Canterbury, a member of the original mission. [27] The church experienced a setback when the pagan Eadbald succeeded his father Æthelberht in 616 ...