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43 unusual facts about Church of England


Alfred Hutchinson Dymond

Originally a Quaker, in 1852, Dymond married Helen Susannah Henderson, an Anglican, and later became active in the Anglican church.

Anglican Diocese of Southwark

In other ecclesiatical use, although having lost religious orders in the English Reformation, the diocese has the London home of the Archbishop of Canterbury and records centre of the Church of England in the diocese, Lambeth Palace.

Associateship of King's College

This was an ordination qualification in the Church of England and was a three-year, full-time course of studies.

Athanase Laurent Charles Coquerel

In 1817 he was invited to become pastor of the chapel of St Paul at Jersey, but he declined, being unwilling to subscribe to the Thirty-nine Articles of the Church of England.

Baron Rothschild

(Benjamin Disraeli, though born into a Jewish family, was a member of the Church of England.)

British industrial mission

Bishop Leslie Hunter, Bishop of Sheffield, was concerned that the Church of England had been losing touch with people in the industrialised cities during the inter-war years, and sent the Revd.

Burnett Hillman Streeter

He was ordained in 1899 and was a member of the Archbishop’s Commission on Doctrine in the Church of England (from 1922 to 1937).

Cape Island, Newfoundland and Labrador

According to the 1836 Census, 98 of the 100 inhabitants at Cape Island belonged to the Church of England and two were Roman Catholic.

Cathedral constable

Cathedral constables are employed by a small number of Church of England cathedrals in England.

Central Churchmanship

Central Churchmen value both the official liturgies of the Church of England, which they clothe in a moderate amount of ceremonial and a characteristically Anglican way of doing theology that is rooted in the Bible, and the Councils and Creeds of the Early Church, whilst acknowledging the contribution made by the English Reformation.

Chaplain-General of Prisons

He is also an ex officio member of the House of Clergy of the General Synod.

Christianity in the United States

The Church of England was legally established in the colony in 1619; 22 Anglican clergyman arrived by 1624.

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Puritans were English Protestants who wished to reform and purify the Church of England in the New World of what they considered to be unacceptable residues of Roman Catholicism.

Church of St. Mary Magdalene, Bridgnorth

The Church of St. Mary Magdalene, Bridgnorth, is a Parish Church in the Church of England.

Deanery of Christianity

The Deanery of Christianity is the name shared by two different deaneries of the Church of England.

Deanery synod

In the Church of England and other Anglican churches, a deanery synod is a synod convened by the Rural Dean (or Area Dean) and/or the Joint Lay Chair of the Deanery Synod, who is elected by the elected lay members.

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In England its lay members also elect the deanery's lay representatives to its diocese's synod (every three years by either plurality or STV) and its diocese's members of the House of Laity in the General Synod of the Church of England, every five years by a system of Single Transferable Vote.

Development of doctrine

Newman used the idea of development of doctrine to defend Catholic teaching from attacks by some Anglicans and other Protestants, who saw certain elements in Catholic teaching as corruptions or innovations.

Diocese of Madhya Kerala of the Church of South India

The Madhya Kerala Diocese is one of the twenty-two dioceses of the Church of South India (Commonly referred as CSI) (successor of the Church of England) covering the central part of Kerala.

Eaton Hodgkinson

She sent her son to Witton Grammar School in Northwich where he studied the classics with the intention that he would fulfill the family's ambition that he prepares for a career in the Church of England.

Endianness

It is widely assumed that Swift was either alluding to the historic War of the Roses or – more likely – parodying through oversimplification the religious discord in England and Scotland brought about by the conflicts between the Roman Catholics (Big Endians) on the one side and the Anglicans and Presbyterians (Little Endians) on the other.

English Churchman

The paper has a reputation for being outspokenly and unashamedly Protestant, Evangelical, Reformed and anti-ecumenical, believing that the Thirty-Nine Articles of the Church of England are good and true and so it does not recognise non-evangelical Churches as being truly Christian because they have erred in doctrine and practice.

Foochow Romanized

Subsequent missionaries, including Robert S. Maclay from American Methodist Episcopal Mission, R. W. Stewart from the Church of England and Charles Hartwell from the American Board Mission, further modified White's System in several ways.

History of Methodism in Ripley Derbyshire

The Methodists formed a new church in the early 18th century as a break away movement from the established Church (Church of England), mainly by two Anglican ministers, John Wesley, the preacher and his brother, Charles Wesley, the hymn writer.

House of Commons Disqualification Act 1975

Since the House of Commons (Removal of Clergy Disqualification) Act 2001, no clergy except for Church of England bishops (see Lords Spiritual) are now prohibited from serving.

John Whishaw

While a student he lost a leg, disqualifying him for an intended career in the Church of England.

Josephine Henry

Henry served on the internationally renowned Revising Committee, a group of women from Europe and the U.S. who drafted commentary on the 1888 Revised Version of the Bible published by the Church of England.

Methodist diaconal order

Unlike the position in the Roman Catholic Church, and formerly in the Church of England, in the Methodist Church the term deaconess simply means a female deacon, and is not a distinct from the male order.

Monition

In English law and the canon law of the Church of England, a monition, contraction of admonition, is an order to a member of the clergy to do or refrain from doing a specified act.

North Marston

The North Marston Church of England School is a mixed Church of England primary school.

Ornaments Rubric

The "Ornaments Rubric" is found just before the beginning of Morning Prayer in the Book of Common Prayer of the Church of England.

Paleo-orthodoxy

Similar approaches can be found in the theology of Marva Dawn, a Lutheran; Alister McGrath, a Church of England Reformed evangelical; Andrew Purves, a Presbyterian; Dr. Timothy George (Baptist),and Christopher Hall, an Episcopalian.

Places of Worship Registration Act 1855

It applies only in England and Wales, and does not cover the Church of England (that country's Established Church): it is exempt from the Act's requirements.

Prayer of Humble Access

The prayer was an integral part of the early Books of Common Prayer of the Church of England and has continued to be used throughout much of the Anglican Communion.

Resistance: Fall of Man

Sony and Insomniac Games have since become embattled with the Church of England for using interior shots of Manchester Cathedral to recreate the building within the game, as well as "promoting violence" within the building.

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The combat scenes that take place within a virtual representation of Manchester Cathedral in England caused controversy with the leaders of the Church of England.

Richard Blackmore

He also produced A New Version of the Psalms of David in 1721 and tried to get the Church of England to accept them as canonical translations.

Royal Naval Cemetery

The majority of World War II (1939-1945) graves are together in the Church of England section, near the Cross of Sacrifice, which itself was erected after the first war to commemorate the men near the southern wall of the western part overlooking the harbour.

Salim L. Lewis

He started with Bear, Stearns' partnership in 1937 with $20,000, loaned by his first and only wife, Diana Felger Bonnor Lewis, who was born in Newark, New Jersey of an American woman whose parents were German Lutheran, and an English father, Church of England—and he became a general partner of that firm.

Septimus Burt

He was a synodsman, trustee and legal advisor for the Church of England, and a close friend of Archbishop Charles Riley.

Solemn Declaration of 1893

The Solemn Declaration of 1893 is a statement that was adopted by the first General Synod of the Anglican Church of Canada (then called The Church of England in Canada) held in 1893.

Towards the conversion of England

Towards the Conversion of England was a 1945 report produced by the Church of England Commission on Evangelism, chaired by the evangelical Bishop of Rochester, Christopher Chavasse.

Tract 90

In Tract 90, Newman engaged in a detailed examination of the 39 Articles, suggesting that the negations of the 39 Articles (a key doctrinal standard for the Church of England) were not directed against the authorized creed of Roman Catholics, but only against popular errors and exaggerations.


Aberford

The village contains a number of functional buildings, such as Aberford Church of England primary School, affiliated with the St Ricarius parish church adjacent to it.

Bergen Anglican Church

Bergen Anglican Church are a part of the Archdeaconry of Germany and Northern Europe in the Diocese of Gibraltar in Europe, which is part of the province of Canterbury in the Church of England.

Black Rubric

The term Black Rubric is the popular name for the declaration found at the end of the "Order for the Administration of the Lord's Supper" in the Prayer Book of the Church of England (BCP) which explains why the communicants should kneel and excludes possible misunderstandings of this action.

Bow, Devon

In the late 19th and early 20th centuries Bow was spiritually divided between the Church of England, the Congregationalists and the Plymouth Brethren.

Carenza Lewis

Educated at the school (since closed) of the Church of England Community of All Hallows, Norfolk, and at the University of Cambridge, in 1985 she joined the Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England (now part of English Heritage) as a field archaeologist for Wessex.

Charles Henry Wharton

In May, 1784, having adopted the views of the Church of England, he published his celebrated "Letter to the Roman Catholics of Worcester" (Philadelphia, 1784), and became rector of Immanuel Church, New Castle, Delaware.

Christ Church, Birmingham

Christ Church, Birmingham was a parish church in the Church of England on Colmore Row, Birmingham from 1805 to 1899.

Church of Pakistan

Its most internationally famous clergyman, Bishop Michael Nazir-Ali, formerly diocesan bishop of Raiwind in West Punjab, was given sanctuary by Robert Runcie, the then-Archbishop of Canterbury when his life was imperilled; he then taught at Oxford and served as Bishop of Rochester, England.

Church of St. Mary the Virgin, Plumtree

The Church of St. Mary the Virgin, Plumtree is a parish church in the Church of England in Plumtree, Nottinghamshire.

Clergy reserve

Although the first lieutenant governor of Upper Canada, John Graves Simcoe interpreted Protestant clergy to mean the clergy of Church of England only, by 1824, the Church of Scotland was also granted a share of the projected revenues.

Fisherton Delamere

The Church of England parish church, St Nicholas's Church, built in the 14th century in a chequerboard pattern of flint and Chilmark stone, sits on a hill overlooking the River Wylye at the centre of the village.

Greater Churches Group

The Greater Churches Network is a self-help organisation within the Church of England.

Hugh M‘Neile

Early in 1822, his preaching in London so impressed the banker and parliamentarian Henry Drummond (1786–1860) that Drummond appointed M‘Neile to the living of the parish of Albury Park, Surrey, from where M‘Neile’s first collection of sermons, Seventeen Sermons, etc.

Injinoo, Queensland

Although self-sufficient, through fishing and gardening, the Community made requests to the then Church of England to establish a mission and school.

John Drane

He has been a personal guest of HM Queen Elizabeth II at her Scottish home, Balmoral Castle, while also being regarded as an important theological resource person for the emerging church in the UK (he is deputy chair of the board of mission shaped ministry, which is part of the Fresh Expressions initiative of the Church of England).

John Poynder

He was eldest son of a tradesman in the city of London; his mother belonged to the evangelical wing of the Church of England.

Joseph Priestley and Dissent

Between 1660 and 1665, Parliament passed a series of laws that restricted the rights of dissenters: they could not hold political office, teach school, serve in the military or attend Oxford and Cambridge unless they ascribed to the thirty-nine Articles of the Church of England.

Lancelot Joynson-Hicks, 3rd Viscount Brentford

Lord Brentford was also Chairman of the Automobile Association and served as a member of the House of Laity in the National Assembly of the Church of England.

London Borough of Wandsworth

In 1842 Whitelands College was founded in Chelsea by the Church of England, and heavily under the influence of John Ruskin.

Midhurst

Midhurst Deanery is a Deanery of the Church of England comprising 22 churches in the Rother Valley between Midhurst and Petersfield.

Nondenominational Christianity

Denominationalism was accelerated in the aftermath of the Westminster Assembly convened by the English Parliament to formulate a form of religion for the national churches of England and Scotland.

Pendleton District, South Carolina

In the colonial period, the land around the coast was divided into parishes corresponding to the parishes of the Church of England.

Peter Bailey Williams

Peter Bayley Williams (August 1763 – 22 November 1836) was a Welsh Anglican priest and amateur antiquarian.

R v Wallace

In a unique act, the Church of England offered special prayers - "intercessions extraordinary" at Liverpool Cathedral.

Religious images in Christian theology

During the period of Archbishop William Laud's conflicts with Puritans within the Church of England, the use of ritual implements prescribed by the Book of Common Prayer was a frequent cause of conflict.

Richard Rubinstein

After converting from Judaism to the Church of England, he married Gay, with whom he had been friends since their childhood, in 1943.

Sarn, Powys

The historic parish church is Holy Trinity, part of the Ridgeway Benefice, in the Clun Forest deanery of the Church of England's Diocese of Hereford.

Share Jesus International

The Board of Share Jesus International includes leaders from the following agencies: Methodist Church, Scripture Union, Baptist Union of Great Britain, Youth for Christ, Ichthus Christian Fellowship, Church of England Board of Mission, The Salvation Army, Premier Christian Radio, Evangelical Alliance, Churches Together in England, and United Reformed Church.

Soke of Peterborough

The Church of England, however, still describes the diocese as consisting of Northamptonshire, Rutland and the Soke of Peterborough (i.e. the part of the city north of the River Nene).

Solemn Declaration of 1893

Until the 1830s, the Anglican church in Canada was synonymous with the Church of England: bishops were appointed and priests supplied by the church in England, and funding for the church came from the British Parliament.

St John's Anglican Church, Dalby

The Reverend Benjamin Glennie had a plan to establish the (then) Church of England on the Darling Downs through four churches in the larger towns named after the four apostles: Matthew, Mark, Luke and John.

The Communards

Coles followed his Christian leanings and, after periods as a journalist for the Times Literary Supplement and Catholic Herald, he was ordained in the Church of England, spending time as the curate of St Botolph's (The Stump) in Boston, Lincolnshire and as assistant priest at St Paul's Knightsbridge and Chaplain to the Royal College of Music.

Vernon Corea

Vernon Corea was a Christian, he was very involved in the work of the church in the UK - he was a Lay Reader of the Church of England at Emmanuel Church in Wimbledon Village, South-West London and previous to that appointment he was Lay Reader at Christ Church, Gipsy Hill in South-East London.

Welford, Northamptonshire

There is a Church of England parish church, St Mary's, which according to Pevsner dating from c.13th century and with a north aisle and arcade of 1872 by Edmund Francis Law).

Wesleyanism

In 1736, these two brothers traveled to the Georgia colony in America as missionaries for the Church of England; they left rather disheartened at what they saw.

Whiggism

The opposing Tory position was held by the other great families, the Church of England, and most of the landed gentry and officers of the army and the navy.