The Preamble and Declaration of the Church of Ireland is a primary constitutional document, the actual founding text the Church of Ireland's General Convention adopted in 1870 upon disestablishment from the state, setting out its doctrinal continuity with the pre-Reformation and Reformation church and its new governance as a voluntary body. As primary text its authority for the church's own stated self-understanding at the moment of disestablishment is direct and unmediated. It is a foundational legal-doctrinal statement rather than a history of how that self-understanding was later interpreted or contested within the church, and readers wanting the document's reception and ongoing theological significance within Irish Anglicanism should pair it with the broader historical literature on Irish disestablishment.
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The Preamble and Declaration of the Church of Ireland is the primary constitutional document itself, adopted by the church's own General Convention, treated at the top tier as direct unmediated authority for the church's own stated self-understanding at disestablishment. NotesAdopted in 1870 by the General Convention called after the Irish Church Act of 1869, which disestablished the church with effect from 1 January 1871. It stands at the head of the Constitution of the Church of Ireland.
Custodian
Custodian SourceYes
Custodian BodyThe Church of Ireland
Custodian BasisThe constituting declaration a church adopted for itself. Authoritative for what the Church of Ireland holds and how it governs itself, not independent evidence about it.
Citation
AuthorThe General Convention of the Church of Ireland
Publication Year1870
Source Typeprimary-text
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This source names Anglicanism directly: "theological significance within Irish Anglicanism should pair it with the broader historical literature on Irish disestablishment."
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- Sources, 12 claims: 9 well-attested, 3 holds.
- Doctrines, 4 claims: 1 rejected Here, 1 held Differently, 2 general references.
- Denominations, 3 claims: 2 well-attested, 1 general references.
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