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Anglicanism is a Western Christian tradition which developed from the practices, liturgy, and identity of the Church of England following the English Reformation, [1] in the context of the Protestant Reformation in Europe.
It is the location of St. Peter's Church, the oldest-surviving Anglican church outside of 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 was formed.
It remained part of the Church of England until 1978, when the Anglican Church of Bermuda separated. The Church of England was the state religion in Bermuda and a system of parishes was set up for the religious and political subdivision of the colony (they survive, today, as both civil and religious parishes). Bermuda, like Virginia, tended to ...
From 1796 to 1818 the Church began operating in Sri Lanka (formerly Ceylon), following the 1796 start of British colonisation, when the first services were held for the British civil and military personnel. In 1799, the first Colonial Chaplain was appointed, following which CMS and SPG missionaries began their work, in 1818 and 1844 respectively.
The Church of England was fundamentally changed. The "Jacobean consensus" was shattered, and the Church of England began defining itself less broadly. [114] 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."
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]
1700s – Kingdom of Bolaang Mongondow (Reformed Church) 1819 – Kingdom of Tahiti, Kingdom of Hawaii (Congregational Church) 1829 – Spokane, Kutenai (Anglican Church) 1830 – Samoa (Congregational Church) 1838 – Nez Perce (Presbyterian Church) 1869 – Merina Kingdom (Reformed Church) 1882 – Blackfoot Confederacy (Roman Catholic Church)
1814 – First recorded baptism of a mainland Chinese Protestant convert, Cai Gao; [218] American Baptist Foreign Mission Society formed; [202] [219] Netherlands Bible Society founded [210] Samuel Marsden officiated at the first service on Christmas Day to begin the Church Missionary Society work in New Zealand. [220] [221]