Anglican Communion

This source names Anglican Communion directly: "is not itself a member province of the Anglican Communion, while maintaining full communion with several Anglican Global South primates."

This source names Anglican Communion directly: "Wikipedia's article on the Anglican Communion, describing it as forty-two autonomous, self-governing provinces with no central legal or doctrinal authority binding them and no legal effect to its..."

A focus of unity rather than a head of the Communion. The Archbishop of Canterbury holds no jurisdiction in any province outside England: each province is self-governing, and Canterbury's place among the Instruments of Communion is one of precedence and convening, not of command.

This source names Anglican Communion directly: "ordained to the priesthood in the Anglican Communion, fifty six years after the 1888 Lambeth Conference adopted the Chicago-Lambeth Quadrilateral, already recorded here, and sixty five years before..."

The Anglican Communion is the empire's most durable religious institution, and its membership is now overwhelmingly outside Britain.

This source names Anglican Communion directly: "charismatic spirituality across the Anglican Communion and into other mainline Protestant and eventually Catholic churches for two decades."

This source names Anglican Communion directly: "Twelve years after the Anglican Communion began forming through colonial expansion in 1787, and sixty eight years before the Archbishop of Canterbury convened the first Lambeth Conference in 1867..."

This source names Anglican Communion directly: "women were ordained priest in the Anglican Communion."

This source names Anglican Communion directly: "Baker, the first province of the Anglican Communion to formally and permanently authorise the ordination of women to the priesthood, when Jane Hwang Hsien-yuen and Joyce Bennett were ordained, years..."

This source names Anglican Communion directly: "document her recognition across the Anglican Communion as its first woman priest, her ministry in China and later in Canada, and the Church's own account of her significance in convincing the wider..."

This source names Anglican Communion directly: "as a symbolic head of the worldwide Anglican Communion."

This source names Anglican Communion directly: "Between 27 July and 7 August 2022, the Anglican Communion held the fifteenth Lambeth Conference, the once a decade gathering of its bishops, in Canterbury, England, its first meeting since 2008..."

This source names Anglican Communion directly: "The meeting was the first time bishops of the young Anglican Communion had gathered as a single family for mutual counsel, and it began the pattern of roughly decennial Lambeth Conferences that has..."

This source names Anglican Communion directly: "for a reset of authority within the Anglican Communion."

This source names Anglican Communion directly: "The Anglican Communion Office's own description of the Lambeth Conference as an institution, the once a decade gathering of the Communion's bishops convened by the Archbishop of Canterbury, and of..."

This source names Anglican Communion directly: "it is not evidence for how the modern Anglican Communion currently applies or interprets them, which is a separate and evolving question."

This source names Anglican Communion directly: "a member province of the worldwide Anglican Communion, but it belongs to GAFCON and holds full communion with several Anglican Global South primates."

The organized international fellowship that gives the wider Anglican tradition its institutional form.

A member province of the Anglican Communion.

A member province of the Anglican Communion.

Kept across the provinces of the Anglican Communion. Article XXVIII holds that the sacrament of the Lord's Supper was not by Christ's ordinance reserved, carried about, lifted up, or worshipped.

Kept across the provinces of the Anglican Communion. None was not carried into the Prayer Book, for the same stated reason.

Kept across the provinces of the Anglican Communion. Prime was not carried into the Prayer Book. The Preface Concerning the Service of the Church says plainly that the ancient orders had become so altered and broken that they were put aside for one book with two daily services.

Kept across the provinces of the Anglican Communion. Article XXV holds that there are two sacraments ordained of Christ in the Gospel, and that the other five are not to be counted for sacraments of the Gospel.

Kept across the provinces of the Anglican Communion. Sext was not carried into the Prayer Book, for the same stated reason.

Kept across the provinces of the Anglican Communion. Terce was not carried into the Prayer Book, for the same stated reason.

Kept across the provinces of the Anglican Communion. Article XXII names the worshipping and adoration of images and of relics among the things it calls a fond thing vainly invented and grounded upon no warranty of Scripture.

Kept across the provinces of the Anglican Communion. Article XXII names the invocation of saints in the same sentence, and the Prayer Book addresses no prayer to any saint.

No province accepts the universal jurisdiction of the see of Rome or the papal infallibility defined in 1870. The Quadrilateral locates continuity in the episcopate as a whole and names no see, and the Communion's own cohesion rests on four instruments that consult rather than command.

The Lambeth Conference of 1930 accepted the use of contraception within marriage where there was a moral obligation to limit parenthood, and the Communion has not withdrawn that.

Carried wherever the English cathedral tradition went, and one of the few things the provinces of the communion sing in common.

The seat of the archbishop of Canterbury, whose office is one of the four instruments through which the communion holds together.

The provinces of the Communion outside England are not established and are not governed by the English statute, though the Communion's origin runs through it.

The Anglican shrine draws pilgrims from provinces across the communion and has become a focus for the catholic strand within it.

Named in Article VI of the Thirty-Nine Articles, 1571, among the books the Church reads for example of life and instruction of manners but does not apply to establish any doctrine. Printed and appointed to be read, at a status deliberately short of the canon affirmed at Trent in 1546.

Named in Article VI of the Thirty-Nine Articles, 1571, among the books the Church reads for example of life and instruction of manners but does not apply to establish any doctrine. Printed and appointed to be read, at a status deliberately short of the canon affirmed at Trent in 1546.

Named in Article VI of the Thirty-Nine Articles, 1571, among the books the Church reads for example of life and instruction of manners but does not apply to establish any doctrine. Printed and appointed to be read, at a status deliberately short of the canon affirmed at Trent in 1546.

Named in Article VI of the Thirty-Nine Articles, 1571, among the books the Church reads for example of life and instruction of manners but does not apply to establish any doctrine. Printed and appointed to be read, at a status deliberately short of the canon affirmed at Trent in 1546.

Named in Article VI of the Thirty-Nine Articles, 1571, among the books the Church reads for example of life and instruction of manners but does not apply to establish any doctrine. Printed and appointed to be read, at a status deliberately short of the canon affirmed at Trent in 1546.

Named in Article VI of the Thirty-Nine Articles, 1571, among the books the Church reads for example of life and instruction of manners but does not apply to establish any doctrine. Printed and appointed to be read, at a status deliberately short of the canon affirmed at Trent in 1546.

Named in Article VI of the Thirty-Nine Articles, 1571, among the books the Church reads for example of life and instruction of manners but does not apply to establish any doctrine. Printed and appointed to be read, at a status deliberately short of the canon affirmed at Trent in 1546.

Named in Article VI of the Thirty-Nine Articles, 1571, among the books the Church reads for example of life and instruction of manners but does not apply to establish any doctrine. Printed and appointed to be read, at a status deliberately short of the canon affirmed at Trent in 1546.

Named in Article VI of the Thirty-Nine Articles, 1571, among the books the Church reads for example of life and instruction of manners but does not apply to establish any doctrine. Printed and appointed to be read, at a status deliberately short of the canon affirmed at Trent in 1546.

The Communion's 1998 Lambeth resolution upheld marriage between a man and a woman and could not advise blessing same sex unions, but the Communion has no single church government binding its forty two provinces to that resolution. The Scottish Episcopal Church has married same sex couples since 2017 and the Church in Wales has blessed same sex civil marriages since 2021, while other provinces hold the 1998 resolution as settled teaching, so the Communion holds a different account of the question altogether: that each province decides it for itself rather than the Communion deciding it once for all.

Named in Article VI of the Thirty-Nine Articles, 1571, among the books the Church reads for example of life and instruction of manners but does not apply to establish any doctrine. Printed and appointed to be read, at a status deliberately short of the canon affirmed at Trent in 1546.

Named in Article VI of the Thirty-Nine Articles, 1571, among the books the Church reads for example of life and instruction of manners but does not apply to establish any doctrine. Printed and appointed to be read, at a status deliberately short of the canon affirmed at Trent in 1546.

Kept across the provinces of the Anglican Communion.

Kept across the provinces of the Anglican Communion. The offertory sentences of the communion service are a sustained instruction on giving to the poor, and the alms are collected at that point in the rite.

Kept across the provinces of the Anglican Communion. The Prayer Book provides for the visitation and the anointing of the sick, and the Articles decline to number it among the two sacraments of the gospel.

The fourth article of the Quadrilateral keeps the historic episcopate, but the clause allowing it to be locally adapted in the methods of its administration was put there on purpose. The Communion commits to the succession of bishops without committing to any one account of what that succession conveys.

Kept across the provinces of the Anglican Communion. Baptism is ordinarily by pouring, and the Articles call it a sign of regeneration by which the promises of forgiveness are visibly signed and sealed.

Kept across the provinces of the Anglican Communion. The baptismal covenant is the framework of the catechism and of the renewal of vows at Easter.

Kept across the provinces of the Anglican Communion.

Kept across the provinces of the Anglican Communion. Religious orders were dissolved in the sixteenth century and refounded from 1841 onward, so that this church now has communities of monks and nuns under vows.

Kept across the provinces of the Anglican Communion. The Thanksgiving of Women after Child-birth, commonly called the Churching of Women, is a service of the Prayer Book.

Kept across the provinces of the Anglican Communion.

Kept across the provinces of the Anglican Communion. Compline was not in the sixteenth-century books and was restored in the twentieth, and it is now in general use.

Kept across the provinces of the Anglican Communion. Anglicanism keeps auricular confession available but not required, summarised in the maxim that all may, none must, some should; a general confession said by the whole congregation is the ordinary form.

Kept across the provinces of the Anglican Communion. Confirmation is conferred by a bishop at an age of discretion, and the Prayer Book requires the candidate to renew the promises made at baptism in person.

The Quadrilateral was written as terms for reunion and the Communion has acted on them. The Porvoo Common Statement, agreed in 1993, brought British and Irish Anglican churches into communion with Nordic and Baltic Lutheran churches on the basis of a shared historic episcopate rather than an agreed confession.

Kept across the provinces of the Anglican Communion. The Prayer Book sets out a table of the fasts of the church: Ash Wednesday, the forty days of Lent, the ember days, the rogation days and the Fridays of the year.

Kept across the provinces of the Anglican Communion. The Order for the Burial of the Dead is in the Prayer Book, and the sixteenth-century books removed the prayers for the dead that the medieval rite had carried.

Kept across the provinces of the Anglican Communion.

Kept across the provinces of the Anglican Communion.

Kept across the provinces of the Anglican Communion. The threefold order of bishops, priests and deacons was retained, and since the twentieth century women have been ordained to all three orders in most provinces, which is the sharpest present difference from Rome and the Orthodox churches.

Kept across the provinces of the Anglican Communion. The Articles direct that the baptism of young children is in any wise to be retained as most agreeable with the institution of Christ.

Kept across the provinces of the Anglican Communion. Intinction is widely used, and the church has argued about it, since the Prayer Book directs that the cup be given to each communicant.

Kept across the provinces of the Anglican Communion. The Roman sequence of colours was retained in use and was made explicit again in the modern service books.

Kept across the provinces of the Anglican Communion.

Kept across the provinces of the Anglican Communion. The marriage service of the Prayer Book, with its vow to have and to hold, is the ancestor of the wedding words used across the English-speaking world, including by people of no religion.

Kept across the provinces of the Anglican Communion. Morning Prayer is the surviving daily office, and it is Matins and Lauds combined into one service. The reduction of eight hours to two was deliberate and is the plainest liturgical difference between this church and Rome.

Kept across the provinces of the Anglican Communion. Vows of poverty, chastity and obedience are made in the refounded religious communities of this church.

Kept across the provinces of the Anglican Communion.

Kept across the provinces of the Anglican Communion. Sunday is kept as the Lord's Day with the duty of public worship, without the sabbatarian rigour the Reformed churches attached to it.

Kept across the provinces of the Anglican Communion. Pilgrimage was suppressed at the Reformation and revived from the nineteenth century onward, most visibly at Walsingham.

Kept across the provinces of the Anglican Communion. Prayer is shaped by a single authorised book rather than by a devotional culture, so that a congregation anywhere says the same words on the same day.

Kept across the provinces of the Anglican Communion.

Kept across the provinces of the Anglican Communion.

Kept across the provinces of the Anglican Communion. The Prayer of Consecration is the Anglican anaphora, and the arrangement of its parts differs between the English, Scottish and American books.

The four articles agreed at Lambeth in 1888 as the minimum basis for reunion: the holy scriptures, the Nicene and Apostles Creeds, baptism and the Lord's Supper, and the historic episcopate locally adapted. It is the nearest thing the Communion has to a common doctrinal instrument, and it was written as a floor for talks with other churches, not as a confession binding its own members.

Kept across the provinces of the Anglican Communion. The invocation of the Spirit was in the 1549 book, removed in 1552, and restored in the Scottish and American books, from which it came back into the modern English ones.

Kept across the provinces of the Anglican Communion. The breaking of the bread is a distinct action of the rite and in the modern books has its own words.

Kept across the provinces of the Anglican Communion.

Kept across the provinces of the Anglican Communion.

Kept across the provinces of the Anglican Communion. Anglicans call it Holy Communion, the Eucharist or the Mass according to churchmanship, and the Thirty-Nine Articles reject transubstantiation while leaving the manner of Christ's presence deliberately undefined.

Kept across the provinces of the Anglican Communion. The words of institution stand in the Prayer of Consecration, and the Articles deny that the sacrament was ordained to be gazed upon or carried about.

The second article of the Quadrilateral takes the Nicene Creed as the sufficient statement of the Christian faith, with the Apostles Creed as the baptismal symbol. The Communion's trinitarian commitment is creedal rather than confessional, which is why it survives provinces that share no other doctrinal standard.

An Episcopal parish chartered in 1697, within the Anglican Communion.

Twenty three of the executed converts were Anglican; the Anglican Communion commemorates them as its own martyrs on the same 3 June feast day it shares with the Catholic canonization.

Kept across the provinces of the Anglican Communion. The book is Anglicanism's common thread in place of a magisterium, holding morning and evening prayer, communion, baptism, marriage and burial in one volume in the people's hands. Each province has its own version and modern-language rites are now more used, but the 1662 book remains legally established in England.

Kept across the provinces of the Anglican Communion.

An Episcopal cathedral, seat of the Bishop of Washington, within the Anglican Communion.

Sung at the coronation of the sovereign who serves as Supreme Governor of the Church of England, the Anglican Communion's own mother church, without exception since 1727.