The formal history of the Church of England has traditionally been dated by the Church for the Gregorian mission to Spain by Saint Augustine of Canterbury in 597 AD As a result of the Augustine mission, Christianity in England, from an Anglican (British) perspective, is under the authority of the Pope. However, in 1534 King Henry VIII declared himself to be the supreme head of the Church of England. This produces disunity with the Papacy. As a result of this division, many non-Anglican people assume that the Church of England exists only from the Protestant Reform of the 16th century.
However, Christianity arrived in the British Isles about 47 AD during the Roman Empire according to Gildas De Excidio et Conquestu Britanniae . Archbishop Restitutus and others were known to have attended the Arles Council in 314. Christianity flourished in Sub-Roman England and later Ireland, Scotland, and Pictland. The Anglo-Saxons (German infidels who progressively confiscated British territory) during the 5th, 6th and 7th centuries, founded a small number of kingdoms and the Anglo-Saxon evangelization was carried out by successors of the Gregorian mission and by Celtic missionaries from Scotland. The Church in Wales remained isolated and only brought into the jurisdiction of the English bishop a few centuries later.
The Church of England became a church established by the Parliament Act in the Act of Supremacy, initiating a series of events known as the British Reformation. During the reign of Queen Mary I and King Philip, the church was completely restored under Rome in 1555. However, the pope's authority was again explicitly rejected after the accession of Queen Elizabeth I when the Supreme Acts of 1558 were passed. Catholic and Reformed factions compete to define the doctrine and worship of the church. It ended with the Elizabethan Settlement 1558, which developed an understanding that the church should be "both Catholic and Reformed".
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Roman and Sub-Roman Christianity in the British Isles
According to medieval tradition, Christianity arrived in England in the 1st or 2nd century, although the stories involving Joseph of Arimathea, King Lucius, and Fagan are now usually regarded as pious forgery. The earliest historical evidence of Christianity among native Britons is found in the writings of early Christian Fathers such as Tertullian and Origen in the early years of the 3rd century, although the first Christian community may have been established several decades earlier.
Three Romano-English bishops, including Restitutus, the London metropolitan bishop, are known to have been present at the Arles Council (314). Others attend the Council of Serdica in 347 and Ariminum in 360. A number of references to churches in Roman Britain are also found in the writings of 4th century Christian fathers. England was the home of Pelagius, who opposed Augustine from the Hippos doctrine of original sin. The first recorded Christian Martyr in England, St. Alban, is thought to have lived at the beginning of the 4th century, and his superiority in English hagiography is reflected in the number of parish churches in which he is the patron.
Irish Anglicans trace their origins back to the Irish saint of Christianity (St. Patrick) who is believed to have been a predetermined British Roman and Christian Anglo-Saxon. Anglican people also regarded Celtic Christianity as the pioneer of their church, since the re-establishment of Christianity in some parts of Britain in the 6th century came through Irish and Scottish missionaries, especially followers of St. Patrick and St. Columba.
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Augustine and the Anglo-Saxon period
Anglicans have traditionally dated the origin of their Church for the coming in the Kingdom of Kent from the Gregorian mission to the pagan Anglo-Saxon led by the first Archbishop of Canterbury, St. Augustine, at the end of the 6th century. Alone among the kingdoms of Kent at that time was Jutish, not Anglican or Saxon. However, the origins of the Church in the British Isles extend further back (see above).
Thelberht of the queen of Kent Bertha, daughter of Charibert, one of the Frankish Merovingians, has brought a priest (Liudhard) with her. Bertha had restored the remaining church from the Roman era east of Canterbury and dedicated it to Saint Martin of Tours, the patron saint of the Merovingian royal family. This church, Saint Martin, is the oldest church in England still in use today. Thelberht himself, though a Gentile, permitted his wife to worship God in his own way, in St. Martin. Perhaps influenced by his wife, ÃÆ' â € thelberht asked Pope Gregory I to send missionaries, and in 596 the Pope sent Augustine, along with a group of monks.
Augustine had served as a pre-epilocyte (formerly) from the monastery of St. Andrew in Rome, founded by Gregory. His side lost heart on the way and Augustine returned to Rome from Provence and asked his boss to leave the mission project. The Pope, however, ordered and encouraged the continuation, and Augustine and his followers landed on Thanet Island in the spring of 597.
Thelberht allowed the missionaries to settle and preach in his township in Canterbury, first at Saint Martin's Church and then nearby at a place that later became the Abbey of St Augustine. At the end of the year he himself has been converted, and Augustine received consecration as bishop in Arles. At Christmas, 10,000 of the monarchs were baptized.
Augustine sent his success report to Gregory with certain questions about his work. In 601 Mellitus, Justus and others brought the pope's reply, with a pallium for Augustine and prizes of sacred vessels, robes, relics, books, and the like. Gregory directs the new archbishop to ordain as soon as possible twelve suffragan bishops and sends a bishop to York, who must also have twelve suffragans. Augustine did not carry out this papal plan, nor did he build a primal view of London (in the Eastern Saxon Kingdom) as Gregory wished, for the Londoners remained unbelievers. Augustine ordained Mellitus as bishop in London and Justus as bishop of Rochester.
Pope Gregory issued a more practical mandate on temples and pagan usages: he wanted the temples to be consecrated for Christian service and asked Augustine to change pagan practices, as far as possible, into devotional ceremonies or feasts of martyrs, for "he who will rising to a high altitude must rise with steps, not jumps "(Gregory's letter to Mellitus, in Bede, i, 30).
Augustine again ordained and rebuilt an old church in Canterbury as his cathedral and founded a monastery associated with it. He also restored the church and founded the monasteries of St Peter and St Paul outside the walls. He died before completing the monastery, but is now buried in the Church of St. Peter and St. Paul.
At 616 ÃÆ' thelberht of Kent died. The Kingdom of Kent and the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms where Kent's influence relapsed to disbelief for decades. Over the next 50 years, Celtic missionaries evangelized the kingdom of Northumbria by seeing the episcopal at Lindisfarne and the missionaries then proceeded to several other kingdoms to evangelize them as well. Mercia and Sussex are among the last empires that underwent Christianization.
The Whitby synod in 664 formed a significant turning point inside King Oswiu of Northumbria decided to follow Roman practices rather than Celtic. The Whitby synod sets the Roman date for Easter and Roman style monure tonsure in England. Ecclesial meetings with Roman customs and local bishops followed Celtic ecclesiastical customs were called in 664 in the double monastery of Saint Hilda Streonshalh (StreanÃÆ'Â|shalch), later called Whitby Abbey. It was led by King Oswiu, who was not involved in the debate but made the final decision.
A great archbishop of Canterbury, Theodore of Tarsus, Greece, also contributed to the organization of Christianity in England, reforming many aspects of church administration.
Medieval consolidation
As in other parts of medieval Europe, tensions arose between the local monarch and the Pope on the authority of the civil judiciary over scholars, taxes and wealth of the Church, and the appointment of the bishop, especially during the reign of Henry II and John. As initiated by Alfred the Great in 871 and consolidated under William the Conqueror in 1066, Britain became an entity politically united on an earlier date than any other European country. One result is the government unit, both church and state, relatively large. England is divided between Canterbury Province and the Province of York under two archbishops. During the Norman Conquest, there were only 15 diocesan bishops in England, rising to 17 in the 12th century with the creation of Ely and Carlisle sights. This amount is much less than the amount in France and Italy. The next four medieval dioceses in Wales came in Canterbury Province.
After the destruction of the Viking invasion in the 9th century, most British monasteries have ceased to function and the cathedral is usually served by a small community of married priests. King Edgar and his Archbishop, Canterbury Dunstan, instituted major reforms in the cathedral at a synod at Winchester in 970, where it was agreed that all bishops should seek to build monasticism in their cathedrals following the Benedictine rule, with the bishop as abbot. Excavations have shown that reformed monastic cathedrals in Canterbury, Winchester, Sherborne and Worcester were rebuilt on a luxurious scale by the end of the 10th century. However, the renewed Viking attack during the reign of Ethelred, halted the progress of the monastic revival.
In 1072, after the Norman Conquest, William the Conqueror and Archbishop, Lanfranc sought to complete the reform program. Durham and Rochester Cathedral rebuilt as a Benedictine monastery, secular Wells Cathedral moved to Monastic Bath, while Lichfield's secular cathedral was moved to Chester, and then to Coventry monastery. The Norman bishops sought to establish a perpetual income that was entirely separate from the body of their cathedral, and this was inherently more difficult in the monastic cathedral, where the bishop was also the abbot of the titular monastery. Therefore, after Lanfanc's death in 1090, a number of bishops used the void to obtain a secular constitution for their cathedrals - Lincoln, Sarum, Chichester, Exeter and Hereford; while the main cathedral of London and York always remained secular. Furthermore, when the bishops' seats were relocated from Coventry to Lichfield, and from Bath to Wells, this view again became secular. Bishops from the monastic cathedral, tend to find themselves engaged in longstanding legal disputes with their respective monastic bodies; and increasingly likely to live elsewhere. Ely and Winchester bishops lived in London just as Archbishop of Canterbury. The bishops in Worcester generally live in York, while the bishops of Carlisle live in Melbourne in Derbyshire. The monastic government of the cathedral continued in England, Scotland and Wales during the medieval period; whereas elsewhere in Western Europe are found only in Monreale in Sicily and Downpatrick in Ireland.
An important aspect of medieval Christian practice is the worship of the saints, and the pilgrimage is related to the places where the holy relics of a certain saint are buried and the sacred tradition is respected. The possession of a popular saint's relic is a source of funding for an individual church because the faithful make donations and benefits in the hope that they can receive spiritual help, blessings or healing from the presence of the sacred physical body. Among the churches for its special benefits are: St. Alban Monastery, containing the remains of the first English Christian martyrs; Ripon, with its founder temple, St. Wilfrid; Durham, built for the home of Saints Cuthbert's body of Lindisfarne and Aidan; Ely, with the shrine of St. Etheldreda; Westminster Abbey, with its majestic temple founders, St. Edward the Confessor; and Chichester, who holds the remains of St. Richard is respected. All the saints bring pilgrims to their churches, but among them the most famous are Thomas Becket, the late Archbishop, who was killed by the accomplices of King Henry II in 1170. As a place of Canterbury pilgrimage, in the 13th century , second only to Santiago de Compostela.
John Wycliffe (ca. 1320 - 31 December 1384) was a British theologian and early dissident against the Roman Catholic Church during the 14th century. He founded the Lollard movement, which opposed a number of Church practices. He also opposed the papal encroachment on secular powers. Wycliffe is associated with statements that show that the Church in Rome is not the head of all churches, nor does St Peter have the power given to him than any other disciple. These statements relate to his call for wealth reform, corruption and abuses. Wycliffe, an Oxford scholar, even states that "... the Gospel itself is a sufficient rule to govern the lives of every Christian on earth, without any other rules." Lollard's movement continued with his statement from the pulpit even under persecution followed by Henry IV up to and including the early years of Henry VIII's reign.
The first break with Rome (later turned) came when Pope Clement VII refused, for several years, to cancel Henry's marriage to Catherine of Aragon, improper as a matter of principle, but also because the Pope lived in fear of Catherine's niece. , Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, as a result of events in the Italian War.
Henry first requested a cancellation in 1527. After various initiatives failed he increased the pressure on Rome, in the summer of 1529, by drawing up manuscripts from ancient sources on the grounds that, in law, spiritual supremacy rested on the king and also against the legality of the Pontifical authority. In 1531, Henry first challenged the Pope when he asked for £ 100,000 from clerics in return for a royal pardon for what he called their illegal jurisdiction. He also demanded that the clergy should recognize him as his sole patron and supreme head. The Church in England recognized Henry VIII as the supreme head of the Church of England on 11 February 1531. Nevertheless, he continued to seek compromise with the Pope, but the negotiations (which began in 1530 and ended in 1532) with papal papacy Antonio Giovanni da Burgio failed. Attempts by Henry to attract Jewish scholarships on the contours of levirate marriage are also inevitable.
In May 1532, the Church of England agreed to surrender its legislative and canon law independence to the king's authority. In 1533, the Statute in Restraint of Appeal removed the right of British and lay clergy to apply to Rome in matters of marriage, tithe and oblations. It also authorizes such things to the Archbishop of Canterbury and York. This eventually enabled Thomas Cranmer, the new Archbishop of Canterbury, to issue Henry's cancellation; and after getting it, Henry marries Anne Boleyn. Pope Clement VII excommunicated Henry VIII in 1533.
In 1534, the Constitution of the Clergy erased the right of all appeals to Rome, effectively ending the influence of the Pope. The first Supremacy Deed confirmed Henry by law as the Supreme Leader of the Church of England in 1536. (Because the scholars objected to the disputed term "Supreme Head" to the king then became "Supreme Governor of the Church of England" which is the title held by the ruling kings to this day.)
Such constitutional changes make it possible not only for Henry to cancel his marriage but also give him access to the considerable wealth that the Church has gathered. Thomas Cromwell, as Vicar General, launched a commission of inquiry into the nature and value of all ecclesiastical property in 1535, culminating in the Dissolution of the Monasteries (1536-1540).
Reform
Many Roman Catholics consider the separation of the Church in Britain from Rome in 1534 to become the true origin of the Church of England, rather than dating St. Augustine's mission in 597 AD While the Anglican admits that Henry VIII's rejection of the Pope's authority caused the Church of England to be a separate entity , they believe that it is a continuity with the pre-Reformed Church of England. Apart from different customs and liturgies (such as the Sarum rite), the British Church organization's machine existed at the time of the Hertford Synod in 672-63, when the first English bishops could act as one body under the leadership of the Archbishop of Canterbury. Henry's Act in Restraint of Appeals (1533) and Acts of Supremacy (1534) states that the British crown is "the only Highest Chief on the earth of the Church of England, called Ecclesia Anglicana ," in order to " and annihilate all the errors, heresies, and terrible and other powers that are used at the same time. " The Thirty-Ninth Development of the Articles of Religion and the Passage The Uniformity Story culminates in the Devil of Elizabeth. At the end of the 17th century, the English church portrayed itself as Catholic and Reformed, with the king of England as the Supreme Governor. MacCulloch commented on this situation saying that "never subsequently determined its identity as convincing as Protestant or Catholic, and has decided ultimately that this is a virtue rather than a defect."
King Henry VIII of England
The British Reformation was initially driven by the purpose of the Henry VIII dynasty, which, in its quest for the queen that would give him the male heir, felt the need to replace the pope's authority with the supremacy of the British crown. The original law focused primarily on the question of temporal and spiritual supremacy. The 1534 The Institution of the Christian Man (also called The Bishops' Book) was written by a committee of 46 men and bishops led by Thomas Cranmer. The purpose of the work, together with the Ten Articles from the previous year, was to carry out the reform of Henry VIII in secede from the Roman Catholic Church and reform the Ecclesia Anglicana. "The work is a noble effort of the bishops to promote unity, and to instruct people in the teaching of the Church." The introduction of the Great Bible in 1538 brought the translation of Scripture into the churches. The dissolution of the Temple and the seizure of their assets in 1540 brought the land and property of the church in large numbers under the jurisdiction of the Kingdom, and finally into the hands of the English nobles. This simultaneously erased the greatest loyalty center to the pope and created a personal interest that made a powerful material impulse to support a separate Christian church in England under the rule of the Kingdom.
Cranmer, Parker, and Hooker
In 1549, the process of renewing the ancient national church was entirely motivated by the publication of the first English prayer book, the Book of Common Prayer, and the enforcement of the Unity Story, which shaped the English language as a common language of worship. The theological justification for Anglican distinctiveness was initiated by Thomas Cranmer, Archbishop of Canterbury, the author of the first prayer book, and continued by others such as Matthew Parker, Richard Hooker and Lancelot Andrewes. Cranmer has worked as a diplomat in Europe and is aware of Reformist ideas such as Andreas Osiander and Friedrich Myconius and Roman Catholic theologian Desiderius Erasmus.
During the short reign of Edward VI, the sons of Henry, Cranmer and others moved the Church of England significantly to a more reformed position, reflected in the development of the second prayer book (1552) and in the Forty-Two Articles. This reform was reversed unexpectedly during the reign of Queen Mary, a Roman Catholic who re-established fellowship with Rome after her accession in 1553.
In the 16th century, religious life was an important part of cement that united society and formed an important basis for expanding and consolidating political power. Differences in religion tend to lead to civil unrest at least, with treason and alien invasion acting as a real threat. When Queen Elizabeth ascended the throne in 1558, a solution was deemed to have been discovered. To minimize the bloodshed over religion in its territory, the religious settlement between the Romans and the Geneva factions took place. It is highly articulated in the development of the General Book of Prayer 1559, Thirty Nine Articles, Ordinal, and Two Homily Books. These works, published under Archbishop Matthew Parker, form the basis of all subsequent Anglican doctrines and identities.
The new version of the prayer book is substantially the same as the previous version of Cranmer. That would be a source of great debate during the 17th century, but then the revision had no great theological significance. The Thirty-Nine Articles are based on Cranmer's earlier work, which was modeled after the Forty-Two Articles.
Most residents access Elizabeth's religious settlements with varying degrees of enthusiasm or resignation. It was imposed by law, and secured Parliament's approval only by a narrow vote in which all non-imprisoned Roman Catholic bishops voted against. In addition to those who continue to recognize the supremacy of the papacy, the more militant Protestants, or the Puritans as they are known, oppose it. Both groups were punished and deprived of their rights in various ways and cracks in the facade of religious unity in Britain emerged.
Despite being separated from Rome, the Church of England under Henry VIII remained essentially Catholic rather than Protestant. Pope Leo X had earlier handed Henry his own defendant title (defender of faith), partly because of Henry's attack on Lutheranism. Some of the changes influenced by Protestants under Henry include a limited iconoclasm, abolition of pilgrimage, and pilgrimage places of pilgrimage, chantries, and the extinction of many saints. However, only minor changes in the liturgy occurred during Henry's reign, and he brought through the Six Chapters 1539 that reaffirmed the Catholic nature of the church. However, all this happened, during the great religious upheaval in Western Europe associated with the Reformation; after a split occurs, some reforms may become inevitable. Only under Henry's son, Edward VI (reigned 1547-1553) made the first major changes in parish activities, including the full translation and revision of the liturgy along the Protestant line. The Generic Prayer Book produced, published in 1549 and revised in 1552, began to be used by British Parliament authorities.
Reunion with Roma
After Edward's death, his stepbrother, Roman Catholic, Mary I (reigned 1553 - 1558) came to the throne. He abandoned the Henrician and Edwardian changes, first by undoing his brother's reform later by rebuilding union with Rome. The Marian Persecutions of Protestants and dissenters occur today. The image of the queen after the persecution turned into an almost legendary tyrant named Bloody Mary. The Bloody Mary view is primarily due to the extensive publication of the Foxe Book of Martyrs during the lifetime of Elizabeth I.
Nigel Heard summarizes the persecution as follows: "It is now estimated that 274 executions of religion committed during the last three years of Mary's rule exceeded the number recorded in any Catholic country on the continent in the same period."
Second schism
The second schism, from which the Church of England is now coming, came later. After Maria's death in 1558, her half-sister, Elizabeth I (reigned 1558 - 1603), came to power. Elizabeth became an opponent of whale control and reintroduced separatist ideas. In 1559, Parliament recognized Elizabeth as the supreme governor of the Church, with a new Supremacy Law that also repealed the remaining anti-Protestant laws. The new General Prayer Book appeared in the same year. Elizabeth leads the "Elizabethan Settlement", an attempt to satisfy the Puritan and Catholic troops in England in a national Church. Elizabeth was finally excommunicated on February 25, 1570 by Pope Pius V, finally deciding the alliance between Rome and the Anglican Church.
King James Bible
Shortly after coming to the throne, James I attempted to bring unity to the Church of England by instituting a commission composed of scholars of all views within the Church to produce a new and unified translation of the Bible free from Calvinism and Popish influence. The project began in 1604 and was completed in 1611 to become the official version of the Church in England and then another Anglican church throughout Communion until the mid-20th century. The New Testament is translated from the text of the Greek text, so called because most of the texts that existed at that time corresponded with it.
The Old Testament is translated from the Hebrew Masoretic text, while the Apocrypha is translated from the Greek Septuagint (LXX). The work was undertaken by 47 scholars working on six committees, two of them at Oxford University, Cambridge University, and Westminster respectively. They work on certain parts separately; then the draft generated by each committee is compared and revised to be in harmony with each other.
This translation has a major influence on English literature. The works of famous writers such as John Milton, Herman Melville, John Dryden and William Wordsworth are very inspired by it.
The Authorized Version is often referred to as the King James Version , especially in the United States. King James is not personally involved in translation, although his authorization is legally required for the translation to begin, and he sets guidelines for the translation process, such as banning footnotes and ensuring that the Anglican position is recognized at various points. A dedication to James by the translators still appears at the beginning of the modern edition.
English Civil War
For the next century, through the reign of James I and Charles I, culminating in the British Civil War and the protectorate of Oliver Cromwell, there was a significant change between the two factions: Puritans (and other radicals) seeking more distant reach, a more conservative church that aims to stay closer to traditional beliefs and practices. The failure of political and ecclesiastical authority to submit to the puritan demands for wider reform is one cause of open war. By continental standards the level of violence over religion is not high, but the victims include a king, Charles I and Archbishop of Canterbury, William Laud. For about a decade (1647 - 1660), Christmas was another victim when Parliament wiped out all Church feasts and festivals to remove Britain from the outward signs of Emperity . Under the British Commonwealth Protectorate from 1649 to 1660, Anglicanism was dissolved, presbyterian ecclesiology was introduced in addition to the Episcopal system, Articles replaced with non-Presbiterian versions of Westminster Confession (1647), and the General Prayer Book replaced by the General Worship Directory.
Nevertheless, about a quarter of British clergymen refused to adjust. In the midst of a real victory of Calvinism, the seventeenth century gave birth to a Golden Age of Anglicanism. The Caroline Divines, such as Andrewes, Laud, Herbert Thorndike, Jeremy Taylor, John Cosin, Thomas Ken and others dismissed Roman claims and refused to adopt the ways and beliefs of the Continental Protestant. Historical episcopes are preserved. Truth is found in Scripture and the bishops and archbishops, who must be bound by the first four centuries of tradition in Church history. The role of reason in theology has been affirmed.
Recovery and so on
With the Restoration of Charles II, the Anglican was also restored in a form not far from the Elizabethan version. One difference is that the ideals that include all Britons in a single religious organization, taken for granted by the Tudors, must be abandoned. 1662 revision of the Book of Common Prayer became the unifying text of the Church which was broken and corrected after the civil war disaster.
When the new king Charles II reached the throne in 1660, he actively appointed his supporters who had rejected Cromwell for vacancy. He translates prominent supporters to the most prestigious and precious places. He also considered the need to rebuild the episcopal authority and to re-enter "moderate opponents" to influence Protestant reconciliation. In some cases, the turnover was heavy - he made four appointments to Worcester diocese in four years 1660-63, moving the first three to a better position.
Great Revolution and Action Tolerance
James II was overthrown by William of Orange in 1688, and the newly fast-moving king to ease religious tensions. Many of its supporters are non-Anglican nonconformists. With the Act of Toleration enacted on May 24, 1689, Nonconformists have freedom of worship. That is, unconventional Protestants from the Church of England such as Baptists, Congregationalists and Quakers allowed their own worship places and their own teachers and preachers, subject to acceptance of a certain oath of allegiance. These privileges are strictly not applicable to Catholics and Unitarians, and it continues the social and political disadvantages that exist for dissidents, including the exclusion of political office. The religious settlement of 1689 policies shaped up to the 1830s. The Church of England is not only dominant in religious affairs, but prevents outsiders from responsible positions in national and local governments, businesses, professions and academics. In practice, the doctrine of the divine right of kings has remained forever, old hostility has diminished, and a new spirit of tolerance exists abroad. The restrictions on Nonconformis are largely ignored or raised slowly. Protestants, including Quakers, who worked to overthrow King James II were rewarded. The Law of Tolerance of 1689 enables people who have no conformity with their own chapels, teachers, and preachers, censors become more relaxed. The religious landscape of Britain assumed its present form, with an Anglican church that occupied the middle, and Roman Catholics and Puritans who disagreed with formation, too strong to be suppressed at all, should continue their existence outside the national church rather than control it.
18th century
Spread of Anglicanism outside the UK
Anglican history since the 17th century has become one of the larger expansion and cultural and geographic diversity, accompanied by a diversity of professions and liturgical and theological practices.
At the same time as the British reform, the Church of Ireland was separated from Rome and adopted articles of faith similar to Thirty Nine Articles in England. However, unlike Britain, the Anglican church there can never capture the loyalty of the majority (still Roman Catholic). As early as 1582, the Scottish Episcopal Church was inaugurated when James VI of Scotland sought to reintroduce the bishop when the Church of Scotland became fully presbyterian (see Scottish reform). The Scottish Episcopal Church allowed the formation of the Episcopal Church in the United States after the American Revolution, sanctifying at Aberdeen the first American bishop, Samuel Seabury, who had been denied consecration by bishops in England, for his inability to take loyalty allegiance to the British crown prescribed in the Order for Consecration Bishops. The administration and ecclesiology of the Scottish and American churches, as well as their daughter's churches, thus tended to be different from those of the British church - reflected, for example, in their looser conceptions of the provincial government, and their leadership by leading bishops or primus than by a metropolis or archbishop. The names of Scottish and American churches inspired the term adat Episcopalian for the Anglican; terms used in this and other parts of the world. See also: American Episcopal, Scottish Episcopal
During the British Reformation the four Welsh dioceses (now six) were part of the Canterbury Province and remained so until 1920 when the Church in Wales was created as a province of the Anglican Communion. The intense interest in the Christian faith that characterized Welsh in the 18th and 19th centuries did not exist in the sixteenth century and most Welshs went along with more church reform because the British government was strong enough to impose its will on Wales rather than escape any real belief.
Anglicanism spread beyond the British Isles by way of emigration as well as missionary efforts. 1609 shipwreck from the Virginia Company, Sea Venture, resulted in the settlement of Bermuda by the Company. It was made official in 1612, when the city of St George, now the oldest surviving British settlement in the New World, was founded. This is the location of St. Peter's Church, the oldest surviving Anglican church outside the British Isles (England and Ireland), and the oldest non-Roman Catholic church still in the New World, also founded in 1612. It remains part of the Church of England until 1978, when the Anglican Church of Bermuda is separated. The Church of England is a state religion in Bermuda and a parish system established for the division of religion and political colonies (they survive, today, as civil and religious parishes). Bermuda, like Virginia, tended towards the Royalis side during the Civil War. The conflict in Bermuda resulted in the expulsion of the Puritans Independent of the island (Eleutheran Adventurer, who settled in Eleuthera, in the Bahamas). The Church in Bermuda, before the Civil War, had a rather Presbyterian sense, but the mainstream Anglicanism was affirmed afterward (though Bermuda is also home to the oldest Presbyterian church outside the British Isles). Bermudian required by law in the 17th century to attend the Church of England, and prohibitions similar to those in the UK are in other denominations.
British missionary organizations such as the USPG - later known as the Society for the Spreading of the Gospel in the Outer, the Society for the Promotion of Christian Knowledge (SPCK) and the Missionary Society Church (CMS) were founded in the 17th and 18th centuries to bring Anglican Christianity to the British colonies. In the 19th century, such missions were extended to other regions of the world. The liturgical and theological orientations of these missionary organizations are diverse. SPG, for example, in the 19th century was influenced by the Catholic Revival in the Church of England, while CMS was influenced by Evangelicalism from previous Revival Evangelicals. As a result, the piety, liturgy, and government of the indigenous churches they founded came to reflect this diverse orientation.
the 19th century and after
1801-1914
The Plymouth Brethren broke away from a church founded in the 1820s. The church in this period was influenced by the evangelical revival and the growth of industrial cities in the Industrial Revolution. There is an extension of the various Nonconformist churches, especially Methodism. From 1830, the Oxford Movement became influential and led to an Anglo-Catholic revival. From 1801 the Church of England and the Church of Ireland united and this situation continued until the dismantling of the Irish church in 1871 (by Irish Church Act, 1869).
The growth of twin "revivals" in nineteenth-century Anglicanism --- Evangelicals and Catholics --- is very influential. The Evangelical Revival informs important social movements such as the abolition of slavery, child welfare legislation, the prohibition of alcohol, the development of public health and public education. This leads to the formation of the Church Army, an association of social welfare and evangelicals and information of piety and liturgy, especially in Methodist development.
The Catholic awakening had a deeper impact by altering the liturgy of the Anglican Church, positioning the Eucharist as a center of worship in the venues of daily offices, and reintroducing the use of cloak, ceremonial and pious acts (such as the Eucharist of adoration) to some extent) in his daughter's churches. It affects Anglican theology, through the characters of the Oxford Movement such as John Henry Newman, Edward Pusey, and Christian socialism Charles Gore and Frederick Maurice. Much work is being done to introduce more medieval church furniture styles in many churches. Neo-Gothic in various forms became the norm rather than the previous Neo-Classical form. Both revivals caused considerable missionary effort in some parts of the British Empire.
Prime Minister and Queen
Prime Minister and QueenDuring the 19th century, patronage continued to play a central role in the affairs of the Church. The Tory Prime Ministers appointed most of the bishops before 1830, choosing men who had served the party, or had become college tutors to sponsor politicians, or close to noble relationships. In 1815, 11 bishops came from noble families; 10 has become a tutor of a senior official. Theological achievement or personal piety is not an important factor in their choice. Indeed, the Church is often called "the praying part of the Tory feast." Not since Newcastle, more than a century before, a prime minister paid much attention to church vacancies such as William Ewart Gladstone. She's upset by Queen Victoria by making a promise she does not like. He works to match candidate skills to the needs of a particular church office. He supports his party by supporting the Liberals who will support his political position. His rival, Disraeli, preferred the Conservative bishops, but carefully distrib- uted the diocese in order to balance the various factions of the church. He sometimes sacrifices party advantage to choose more qualified candidates. In most cases Disraeli and Queen Victoria's problems are imminent, but they often clash about the nominations of the church because of their reluctance to the tall church people.
1914-1970
The latest form of military pastor comes from the era of the First World War. A spiritual advisor provides spiritual and pastoral support to service personnel, including the implementation of religious services at sea or in the field. The Army Chaplains Department was given the prefix "Kingdom" in recognition of the minister's war service. The Chaplain General of the British Army was Bishop John Taylor Smith who held office from 1901 to 1925.
While the Church of England was historically identified with the upper classes, and with the rural nobility, the Archbishop of Canterbury William Temple (1881-1944) was a prolific theologian and social activist, proclaiming Christian socialism and taking an active role in the Party Labor until 1921. He advocated wide and inclusive in the Church of England as a means of continuing and expanding the church's position as an established church. He became Archbishop of Canterbury in 1942, and in the same year he published Christianity and the Social Order. The best seller seeks to marry his faith and socialism - by his "socialism" he means deep concern for the poor.. This book helps strengthen Anglican support for the emerging welfare state. Temple is disturbed by the high levels of hostility within, and among the leading religious groups in Britain. He promotes ecumenism, working to build better relationships with Nonconformists, Jews and Catholics, managing in the process of overcoming his anti-Catholic bias.
The Parliament passed the Enabling Act in 1919 to allow the new Church Council, with three houses for bishops, priests, and laity, to propose legislation for the Church, subject to the official approval of Parliament. The crisis suddenly emerged in 1927 at the suggestion of the Church to revise the classic Book of Common Prayer, which has been used everyday since 1662. Its purpose is to incorporate moderate Anglo-Catholicism into a better life. Church. The bishops are looking for a more tolerant and comprehensive Church. After the internal debate, the new Church Assembly gives its consent. Evangelicals within the Church, and Nonconformists outside, outraged that they understood the religious national identity of England in Protestant and anti-Catholic empathicism. They condemned the revision as a concession to the Roman Catholic ritualism and tolerance. They mobilized support in parliament, which twice rejected the revision after a very hot debate. The Anglican Hierarchy was compromised in 1929, while strictly prohibiting extreme practices and Anglo-Catholics.
During the Second World War, the head of the chaplain in the British Army was an Anglican warlord, Charles Symon Sangat (with the rank of general army major), who was officially under the control of the Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs. A chaplain-general assistant is a first-class priest (full colonel), and a senior pastor is a class 2 clerk (lieutenant colonel). At home, the Church sees its role as the country's moral conscience. It gave enthusiastic support for the war against Nazi Germany. George Bell, Bishop Chichester and some priests say that the air bombings in German cities are immoral. They were tolerated reluctantly. Bishop Bell was convicted by fellow members of the clergy and proceeded to be promoted. The Archbishop of York replied, "it is a lesser evil to bomb the war-loving Germans than to sacrifice the lives of our fellow countrymen... or delay the sending of many people who are now in captivity".
A movement toward unification with the Methodist Church in 1960 failed to pass all the necessary steps on the Anglican side, rejected by the General Synod in 1972. It was initiated by Methodists and welcomed by the Anglican but full agreement at all points could not be contacted.
Divorce
The standards of morality in England changed dramatically after the war of the world, toward more personal freedom, especially in sexual matters. The Church is trying to maintain that line, and especially wants to stop the rapid tendency toward divorce. It was reiterated in 1935 that, "in no case can a Christian man or woman remarry during the lifetime of a wife or a husband." When King Edward VIII wanted to marry Mrs. Wallis Simpson, a divorced woman, archbishop of Canterbury, Cosmo Gordon Lang led the opposition. Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin objected excitedly, noting that "although it is true that standards are lower since the war, it only makes people expect higher standards of their King." Edward abdicated to marry the woman. When Princess Margaret wanted in 1952 to marry Peter Townsend, a divorced rabble, the Church did not directly intervene but the government warned her to abandon her claim on the throne and could not marry in the church. Historian Ann Holmes says, "The enduring image is a beautiful young princess who is being held from a man she loves by an inflexible Church, a picture and story that evokes a lot of criticism of Archbishop Fisher's and Church's policies about remarriage after divorce." But when he actually divorced, in 1978, the Archbishop of Canterbury, Donald Coggan, did not attack him, and instead offered support.
1970-present
The Church Assembly was replaced by the General Synod in 1970.
On March 12, 1994, the Church of England ordained his first female priest. On July 11, 2005, the vote was ratified by the British Church General Synod in York to allow the ordination of women as bishops. Both of these events were challenged by some in the church who found it difficult to accept them. Adjustments should be made in the diocese's structure to accommodate parishes that do not accept the services of female imams. (See female ordination)
The first black archbishop of the Church of England, John Sentamu, previously from Uganda, was named on 30 November 2005 as Archbishop of York.
In 2006, the Church of England at its General Synod made a public apology for the institutional role it played as the owner of a historic slave plantation in Barbados and Barbuda. Reverend Simon Bessant tells the history of the church on the island of Barbados, West Indies, where, through a testament of charity received in 1710 by the Institute for the Spreading of the Gospel, thousands of sugar plantation slaves are cruelly treated and stamped in red. - become iron as belonging to "society".
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