Anglicanism

This source names Anglicanism directly: "Kevin Ward's A History of Global Anglicanism, Cambridge University Press, 2006, is the standard academic history of the Anglican Communion's formation from the sixteenth century to the present..."

The prayer book Charles ordered the Scottish church to adopt was modeled directly on the Church of England's own liturgy, and it was that imposition, rather than any Anglican initiative against Scotland, that triggered the crisis.

Durham Cathedral is a cathedral of the Church of England.

Laud's ceremonial programme in the Church of England provoked the crisis, and episcopacy was abolished in 1646 and restored in 1660.

This source names Anglicanism directly: "Center's 2008 report on global Anglicanism, read 2026-08-22, estimating worldwide Anglican membership at roughly 80 million and discussing the difficulty of an exact count."

This source names Anglicanism directly: "into the Catholic Church from Anglicanism, and revised it in 1878 as a Catholic."

This source names Anglicanism directly: "Protestant denominations and parts of Anglicanism, have reached different conclusions that this document neither addresses nor is meant to."

Her reign covers the decades of the widest Anglican expansion.

This source names Anglicanism directly: "real and ongoing dispute within global Anglicanism, not a Communion wide consensus, and provinces that did not participate in GAFCON are not represented by it."

This source names Anglicanism directly: "theological significance within Irish Anglicanism should pair it with the broader historical literature on Irish disestablishment."

This source names Anglicanism directly: "The Study of Anglicanism gathers chapters from specialist scholars on Anglican doctrine, history, liturgical calendar and historical figures from the Reformation forward, each contributor addressing..."

Westminster Abbey, Lambeth Palace and St Paul's stand on its banks, and a blessing of the river is held each January at London Bridge.

This source names Anglicanism directly: "Wikipedia's article on Anglicanism, a continuously edited tertiary source with no fixed publication year, accessed 2026-08-20."

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

None was not carried into the Prayer Book, for the same stated reason.

Article XXXVII of the Thirty-Nine Articles denies the Bishop of Rome any jurisdiction in this tradition's national church.

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.

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.

Sext was not carried into the Prayer Book, for the same stated reason.

Terce was not carried into the Prayer Book, for the same stated reason.

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.

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

Article XXXVII of the Thirty-Nine Articles denies the Bishop of Rome any jurisdiction in this tradition's national church.

Article XXII of the Thirty-Nine Articles calls the Romish doctrine of Purgatory a fond thing vainly invented.

Article 37 of the Thirty-nine Articles states that the bishop of Rome has no jurisdiction in the realm of England, and the Act of Supremacy of 1534 had already removed it.

The Articles of Religion deny that the bishop of Rome has jurisdiction in this realm, and the Anglican response to the definition of 1870 was to refuse it outright.

The Articles of Religion state plainly that the bishop of Rome has no jurisdiction in this realm of England, and the refusal is constitutional as well as doctrinal.

The Articles of Religion were given their final form against Trent, and refuse its account of the sacraments, of purgatory, of indulgences and of the invocation of saints.

The Church of England refuses the Vatican definitions of papal jurisdiction and infallibility, and they remain the sharpest of the questions between the two communions.

The Articles of Religion condemn the worshipping and adoration of images and of relics as a thing repugnant to the word of God, so the council decree is not received.

The English church repudiated the claim the bull makes when it repudiated papal jurisdiction, and its formularies say so directly.

The Thirty-Nine Articles, Article XXVIII, reject transubstantiation as repugnant to Scripture, while this tradition affirms a spiritual real presence in a different formulation.

The Articles of Religion state that we are accounted righteous before God only for the merit of Christ by faith, and not for our own works, which is a different account of what faith does from the one Rome teaches.

The prayer book of 1552 moved the Gloria to the end of the communion service, where the Latin rite has it near the beginning, so the hymn of the angels became a hymn of thanksgiving after receiving. Most modern Anglican rites have moved it back.

The prayer book replaced the ninefold Kyrie with a response after each of the ten commandments, so the petition is answered ten times and against a different text.

Anglican authority is dispersed across scripture, the ancient creeds and councils, the formularies and the synod, and is not held by a single teaching office.

The English houses were dissolved between 1536 and 1541 and religious life was revived from the eighteen forties, so Anglicanism has communities under vows that stand in a broken rather than a continuous line.

The Articles of Religion have the Church read Tobit for example of life and instruction of manners but not to establish any doctrine, and Raphael is named in no other book of the Anglican canon.

The Church of England keeps a calendar of saints and commemorates them, while the Articles condemn the invocation of saints. They are remembered and thanked for, and they are not prayed to.

One of the two Esdras books named in Article VI of the Thirty-Nine Articles, 1571, numbered differently across manuscript traditions, among the books the Church of England reads for example of life and instruction of manners, but does not apply to establish doctrine.

One of the two Esdras books named in Article VI of the Thirty-Nine Articles, 1571, numbered differently across manuscript traditions, among the books the Church of England reads for example of life and instruction of manners, but does not apply to establish doctrine.

Named in Article VI of the Thirty-Nine Articles, 1571 (as the Song of the Three Children, Susanna and Bel and the Dragon), among the books the Church of England reads for example of life and instruction of manners, but does not apply to establish doctrine.

Named in Article VI of the Thirty-Nine Articles, 1571 (as "the rest of the Book of Esther"), among the books the Church of England reads for example of life and instruction of manners, but does not apply to establish doctrine.

Apostolic succession, an unbroken line of ordination from the apostles, is claimed and taught as doctrine by this tradition.

Atonement for sin through Christ is affirmed across Nicene Christianity, including this tradition.

Named in Article VI of the Thirty-Nine Articles, 1571, among the books the Church of England reads for example of life and instruction of manners, but does not apply to establish doctrine, a status short of full doctrinal canon.

Named in Article VI of the Thirty-Nine Articles, 1571, among the books the Church of England reads for example of life and instruction of manners, but does not apply to establish doctrine, a status short of full doctrinal canon.

Named in Article VI of the Thirty-Nine Articles, 1571, among the books the Church of England reads for example of life and instruction of manners, but does not apply to establish doctrine, a status short of full doctrinal canon.

Named in Article VI of the Thirty-Nine Articles, 1571, among the books the Church of England reads for example of life and instruction of manners, but does not apply to establish doctrine, covering both First and Second Maccabees.

Grace as God's unearned favor and enabling power is affirmed across Nicene Christianity, including this tradition.

Named in Article VI of the Thirty-Nine Articles, 1571 (as "the Prayer of Manasses"), among the books the Church of England reads for example of life and instruction of manners, but does not apply to establish doctrine.

Named in Article VI of the Thirty-Nine Articles, 1571 (as "Jesus the Son of Sirach"), among the books the Church of England reads for example of life and instruction of manners, but does not apply to establish doctrine.

Named in Article VI of the Thirty-Nine Articles, 1571, among the books the Church of England reads for example of life and instruction of manners, but does not apply to establish doctrine, a status short of full doctrinal canon.

A real presence with the mode left undefined, which is the deliberate settlement of the Articles and the reason the Anglican formularies can be read in more than one direction.

Ordinary where the eucharistic vestments are worn and absent where they are not, so its use marks the churchmanship of a parish rather than the doctrine of the church.

The Prayer Book says holy table and the catholic revival said altar, and Anglican practice has carried both words for the same furniture ever since.

Written by John Newton, curate of Olney, for a parish sermon at the new year.

Prose psalms in English sung to a short harmonised formula. It is the form the cathedral tradition made its own, and the reason the Anglican psalter is sung rather than said.

The Church of England kept the threefold ministry of bishops, priests and deacons through the Reformation, and its ordinal states that these orders have existed from the apostles time.

One book holds the offices, the eucharist and the occasional services, and the doctrine of the church is read out of it as much as out of the Articles.

Worn with the surplice for the daily offices, and with the scarf or the stole according to the use of the parish.

The cup is given to the laity by rubric, and the Articles name the withholding of it as an abuse.

Use divides by churchmanship rather than by the formularies: ordinary in Anglo-Catholic parishes, absent in the evangelical tradition, and never required of the communion as a whole.

The organ and the choral tradition built on it are among the most distinctive things the Anglican churches have made.

Ordinary street dress for Anglican clergy of every churchmanship, and one of the few points of vesture on which the parties do not divide.

Kept for cathedral and pontifical occasions in most provinces, and used more widely in Anglo-Catholic parishes.

The third of the three orders of the Anglican ordinal, ordinarily served for a year before priesting.

Incense divides by churchmanship rather than by the formularies. It is ordinary in Anglo-Catholic parishes, unknown in evangelical ones, and the Prayer Book neither commands nor forbids it.

Gabriel is kept with Michael in the Anglican observance of 29 September and is named in the Annunciation collect.

The black preaching gown belongs to the evangelical end of the church, where it says that the minister stands in the pulpit as a preacher of the word rather than at an altar.

The Institutes shaped the English reformers and left its mark on the Articles of Religion, without the Church of England ever adopting it as a standard.

Sung at Evensong every day where a choir keeps the office, and set by English composers more often than any other text.

Michael and All Angels on 29 September is one of the few holy days the English reformers kept in the Book of Common Prayer, with a collect that asks God to order the ministries of angels and men.

Anglican bishops kept the mitre in the western two peaked form, though it fell out of use for two centuries after the Reformation and returned in the nineteenth.

The English religious houses were dissolved at the Reformation, and Anglican religious life was refounded in the nineteenth century. It exists and is honoured, and it is required of no one.

Anglican sisterhoods date from the nineteenth century revival rather than from an unbroken inheritance, and they stand outside the canonical framework of the Roman orders.

Kept with the chalice among the vessels of the holy table.

The word is kept in the Anglican ordinal for the second order, though the Articles deny that the eucharist is a sacrifice offered for the living and the dead.

Chanted as prose to Anglican chant rather than versified, which is the point at which Anglican and Presbyterian singing of the same psalm parts.

Anglican religious communities founded from the nineteenth century onward took the Rule, and the condensation of the monastic hours into morning and evening prayer carried its shape into the Book of Common Prayer.

Worn by the ordained in the colour of the season. Its return in the nineteenth century was contested and is now general.

Anglican divinity has read Aquinas since Hooker without binding itself to him, so the work is a resource of the tradition rather than a standard within it.

The vestment the Prayer Book rubrics name for the minister at morning and evening prayer, and the garment the Vestiarian Controversy was fought over.

Appointed at Morning Prayer in the Book of Common Prayer.

The royal supremacy is the legal foundation of the Church of England and of the Anglican Communion that grew from it.

The Chalcedonian definition of two natures in one person is the Christology the Church of England receives and teaches.

Received in the Church of England for its Christology, on the principle that a general council is to be believed so far as its decrees may be shown to be taken out of holy scripture.

The creed of this council is one of the three the Articles of Religion require the Church of England to receive and believe.

The Articles of Religion require that nothing be taught contrary to the ancient creeds, and the Nicene Creed is one of the three the Church of England holds to be proved by most certain warrants of holy scripture.

The Agnus Dei was removed from the 1552 book and restored in the later ones, and it is sung at the fraction.

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.

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.

Apocalyptic and eschatological revelation is received as canonical and doctrinally significant across Nicene Christianity, including this tradition.

Clergy or specialist role within Anglicanism.

The Archbishops of Canterbury and York head the two ecclesiastical provinces of the Church of England, the senior sees of the wider Anglican Communion.

Senior leadership office of Anglicanism.

Clergy or specialist role within Anglicanism.

Printed among the Anglican formularies with the Apostles' and Nicene creeds.

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.

The baptismal covenant is the framework of the catechism and of the renewal of vows at Easter.

The Benedictus is the second canticle at Morning Prayer, said every morning of the year.

Anglicanism retains the historic episcopate, bishops ordained in a claimed unbroken succession, as constitutive of holy orders, per the Thirty-Nine Articles, Article XXXVI, Of Consecration of Bishops and Ministers.

Clergy or specialist role within Anglicanism.

Clergy or specialist role within Anglicanism.

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.

He trained for the Anglican clergy; he later described himself as an agnostic rather than an atheist.

Christian eschatology, the doctrine of last things, is affirmed across Nicene Christianity, including this tradition, though particulars vary.

Anglican in doctrine and order.

The Thanksgiving of Women after Child-birth, commonly called the Churching of Women, is a service of the Prayer Book.

Compline was not in the sixteenth-century books and was restored in the twentieth, and it is now in general use.

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.

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 biblical covenant tradition, old and new, is affirmed across Nicene Christianity, including this tradition.

Creation ex nihilo is affirmed across Nicene Christianity, including this tradition.

Clergy or specialist role within Anglicanism.

Deacon is the first order of Anglican ordained ministry, assisting at the Eucharist and in pastoral and charitable work, per the Thirty-Nine Articles, Article XXXVI, Of Consecration of Bishops and Ministers.

Clergy or specialist role within Anglicanism.

Clergy or specialist role within Anglicanism.

Anglicanism kept the threefold order of bishops, priests and deacons at the Reformation, and the historic episcopate remains the frame of its provinces and a condition of its 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.

Anglicanism keeps Lent in its calendar and prayer book, commending fasting and self-denial as a discipline to be taken up freely rather than imposed under the detailed rules of canon law.

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.

The Gloria Patri follows each psalm and canticle at Morning and Evening Prayer.

The concept of heresy as a formally rejected teaching is operative in this tradition's own doctrinal and disciplinary system.

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.

The Holy Spirit as the third person of the Trinity is affirmed across Nicene Christianity, including this tradition.

The hypostatic union of two natures in one person of Christ is affirmed per the Chalcedonian Definition, binding on this tradition.

The Incarnation, God the Son taking human nature, is affirmed per the Chalcedonian Definition, binding on this tradition.

Anglicanism baptises infants on the promises of parents and godparents, with confirmation serving later as the moment the baptised claim for themselves the faith professed on their behalf.

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

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

Anglicanism affirms justification by faith in its Articles of Religion, while its formularies also give weight to sacrament and good works, one of the balances that make up its middle way.

The Roman sequence of colours was retained in use and was made explicit again in the modern service books.

The Logos Christology of John's Gospel prologue is affirmed across Nicene Christianity, including this tradition.

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.

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.

The libretto, compiled by Charles Jennens, draws entirely from the King James Bible and the Book of Common Prayer, Anglicanism's own defining liturgical book.

Vows of poverty, chastity and obedience are made in the refounded religious communities of this church.

Twenty-seven-book New Testament canon, shared across the Roman Catholic, Eastern Orthodox and Anglican traditions.

The Nunc Dimittis is the second canticle at Evening Prayer, said every evening of the year.

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

God's omnipotence is affirmed as classical theism common ground across Nicene Christianity, including this tradition.

God's omnipresence is affirmed as classical theism common ground across Nicene Christianity, including this tradition.

God's omniscience is affirmed as classical theism common ground across Nicene Christianity, including this tradition.

Original sin is affirmed in Article IX of the Thirty-Nine Articles, Of Original or Birth-Sin.

Pilgrimage was suppressed at the Reformation and revived from the nineteenth century onward, most visibly at Walsingham.

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.

Predestination and election are addressed in Article XVII of the Thirty-Nine Articles, in a moderate, pastorally cautious formulation.

Anglican priests are ordained by a bishop to preach the word and administer the sacraments in a parish, per the Thirty-Nine Articles, Article XXXVI, Of Consecration of Bishops and Ministers.

Old and New Testament prophecy is affirmed as a mode of divine revelation across Nicene Christianity, including this tradition.

Clergy or specialist role within Anglicanism.

Redemption through Christ's sacrifice is affirmed across Nicene Christianity, including this tradition.

The bodily resurrection of the dead is affirmed across Nicene Christianity, including this tradition.

Salvation through Christ is affirmed across Nicene Christianity, including this tradition, though the mechanism of justification is debated separately.

Anglicanism teaches salvation as God's free gift, expressed less in confessional definition than in the prayers and collects of its liturgy, which shape belief through worship rather than through system.

Consecrated in 1864 as the first African Anglican bishop, for the territories of the Niger.

Article XI states that we are accounted righteous before God only for the merit of Christ by faith, and not for our own works or deservings, and calls this a most wholesome doctrine.

Article VI holds that holy scripture containeth all things necessary to salvation, so that nothing may be required of any man as an article of the faith unless it may be read there or proved by it.

Christ as the Son of God is affirmed across Nicene Christianity, including this tradition.

The Order of St John's Royal Head is the Supreme Governor of the Church of England and the Order is identified with the Anglican tradition, though its own membership and honours are ecumenical and reach beyond it, so linked to Anglicanism as its primary identified tradition.

The St John of Jerusalem Eye Hospital Group is a wholly owned corporate subsidiary of the same Anglican-identified Order of St John that operates St John Ambulance, so linked to Anglicanism as its parent order's primary identified tradition.

Senior leadership office of Anglicanism.

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

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.

The Filioque appears in the historic Book of Common Prayer's text of the Nicene Creed.

The breaking of the bread is a distinct action of the rite and in the modern books has its own words.

The Grace closes services and meetings throughout this church, and is the most widely used of its short forms.

Anglicanism confesses the Trinity of the Nicene and Athanasian creeds, recited in its services, and treats the ancient creeds as a settled inheritance rather than a matter for fresh definition.

The Kingdom of God, present and coming, is affirmed across Nicene Christianity, including this tradition.

Article IV confesses that Christ ascended and sits at the right hand until he return to judge all men at the last day.

The Lord's Prayer opens Morning Prayer, Evening Prayer and the communion service, and the doxology at its end entered English use through the Prayer Book.

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.

Anglicanism confesses the resurrection in the creeds and orders its year around Easter, whose liturgy is the high point of the prayer book's calendar and of parish life.

The doctrinal articles of the Church of England, and through it a historic formulary of the Anglican Communion.

The middle way is Anglicanism's own self-description, a church claiming to be at once catholic and reformed, which is why it holds bishops, liturgy and sacraments alongside Reformation doctrine.

The virgin birth of Christ is affirmed across Nicene Christianity, including this tradition.

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 problem of evil is a live theological question this tradition addresses within classical theism.

Mary as Theotokos, God-bearer, is affirmed per the Chalcedonian Christological definition, binding on this tradition.

God's transcendence and immanence are affirmed as classical theism common ground across Nicene Christianity, including this tradition.

The doctrine of the Trinity, one God in three persons, is affirmed across Nicene Christianity, including this tradition.

Clergy or specialist role within Anglicanism.

Amillennial, held as the historic Anglican reading.

The Chalcedonian definition, received in the Articles of Religion.

Open communion for the baptised of other trinitarian bodies.

The royal supremacy is the legal foundation of the Church of England and of the Anglican Communion that grew from it.

The founding episode of Anglicanism's own spread history.

Adds a specific, dated milestone in Anglican history between the 1888 Lambeth Conference adopting the Chicago-Lambeth Quadrilateral and traditionalists founding the Anglican Church in North America over the ordination of women in 2009, both already recorded here: Bishop Ronald Hall's ordination of Li Tim-Oi as a priest on 25 January 1944, the Anglican Communion's first ordination of a woman to the priesthood.

Adds a milestone in Anglicanism's missionary expansion between the Anglican Communion beginning to form through colonial expansion in 1787 and the Archbishop of Canterbury convening the first Lambeth Conference in 1867, both already recorded here: evangelical clergy founding the Church Missionary Society in London on 12 April 1799.

The true founding episode, predating the existing earliest event (the 1559 Elizabethan settlement) by twenty-five years.

The genuine reversal the existing arc omitted entirely: Anglicanism's existing earliest event (1559) is in fact a resettlement after this suppression, not an uninterrupted founding.

Closes a three year gap since 2023's citation, moving the map from an earlier moment in the communion's life to the historic succession at Canterbury itself.

Adds a specific, dated ecumenical milestone between the first Lambeth Conference in 1867 and the Anglican Church in North America's founding in 2009, both already recorded here: the 1888 Lambeth Conference's adoption of the Chicago-Lambeth Quadrilateral, the four point statement of essentials for church unity first put forward at Chicago in 1886.

Closes a 17 year gap since 2009's Traditionalists Found the Anglican Church in North America, the most recent event already on Anglicanism's map, with the Communion's first Lambeth Conference in fourteen years.

Adds a specific, dated institutional milestone between the Anglican Communion's formation from colonial expansion and its early twenty first century conferences already recorded here: the Archbishop of Canterbury's own 1867 invitation that brought bishops from across the world together at Lambeth for the first time, establishing the consultative gathering that has continued roughly every ten years since.

Closes a 1 year gap since 2022's The Anglican Communion Convenes the 2022 Lambeth Conference, the most recent event already on Anglicanism's map, with the established Church's own Archbishop of Canterbury presiding this time not over the Communion's bishops but over the monarch's own coronation.

Adds a milestone in Anglican history between William III chartering the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in 1701 and the Episcopal Church separating from the Church of England in 1784, both already recorded here: the Bangorian Controversy of 1717, in which King George I prorogued the Church of England's own Convocation rather than let it censure Bishop Benjamin Hoadly, silencing Convocation as a governing body until 1852.

The disestablishment and refounding is as much a part of Anglicanism's own spread history as any arrival, and this atlas records it exactly that plainly.

Adds a milestone in Anglican history between the Act of Uniformity establishing the Church of England in 1559 and the Interregnum suppressing Anglican worship in 1645, both already recorded here: Robert Hunt holding the Church of England's first service and first communion at Jamestown in 1607, thirteen years before the Pilgrims reached Plymouth.

Closes a 222-year gap since 1787's Anglican Communion formation, the most recent event already on Anglicanism's map, with a documented modern schism rather than a policy vote inside an existing body.

Adds a specific, dated milestone in Anglicanism's missionary history between the Interregnum suppressing Anglican worship in 1645 and the Episcopal Church separating from the Church of England in 1784, both already recorded here: King William III's 16 June 1701 royal charter founding the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts, the Church of England's first sustained instrument for sending its own clergy and teachers overseas.