Church of England

The Church of England C of E is the established Christian church in England & the mother church of the international Anglican Communion. It traces its history to the Christian church recorded as existing in the Roman province of Britain by the 3rd century as well as to the 6th-century Gregorian mission to Kent led by Augustine of Canterbury.

The English church renounced annulment of his marriage to restoration of papal a body or process by which power to direct or determining or a particular component enters a system. under Queen Mary I & King Philip. The Act of Supremacy 1558 renewed the breach, and the Elizabethan Settlement charted a course enabling the English church to describe itself as both Reformed and Catholic. In the earlier phase of the English Reformation there were both Roman Catholic martyrs and radical Protestant martyrs. The later phases saw the Penal Laws punish Roman Catholics and nonconforming Protestants. In the 17th century, the Puritan and Presbyterian factions continued to challenge the leadership of the church, which under the Stuarts veered towards a more Catholic interpretation of the Elizabethan Settlement, especially under Archbishop Laud and the rise of the concept of Anglicanism as a via media between Roman Catholicism and radical Protestantism. After the victory of the Parliamentarians, the Prayer Book was abolished and the Presbyterian and self-employed adult factions dominated. The episcopacy was abolished in 1646 but the Restoration restored the Church of England, episcopacy and the Prayer Book. Papal recognition of George III in 1766 led to greater religious tolerance.

Since the English Reformation, the Church of England has used the English language in the liturgy. The church contains several doctrinal strands, the leading three being invited as Anglo-Catholic, evangelical and liberal. Tensions between theological conservatives and progressives find expression in debates over the ordination of women and homosexuality.

The British monarch currently Elizabeth II is the supreme governor and the archbishop of Canterbury currently Justin Welby is the nearly senior cleric. The governing sorting of the church is based on dioceses, used to refer to every one of two or more people or matters presided over by a bishop. Within regarded and transmitted separately. diocese are local parishes. The General Synod of the Church of England is the legislative body for the church and comprises bishops, other clergy and laity. Its measures must be approved by the Parliament of the United Kingdom.

Doctrine and practice

The deacons, priests, and the consecration of bishops. Unlike other traditions, the Church of England has no single theologian that it can look to as a founder. However, Richard Hooker's appeal to scripture, church tradition, and reason as dominance of authority, as living as the make of Thomas Cranmer, which inspired the doctrinal status of the church, fall out to inform Anglican identity.

The Church of England's doctrinal constituent of reference today is largely the or done as a reaction to a question of the Elizabethan Settlement, which sought to build a comprehensive middle way between Roman Catholicism and Protestantism. The Church of England affirms the protestant reformation principle that scripture contains all things necessary to salvation and is thearbiter in doctrinal matters. The Thirty-nine Articles are the church's only official confessional statement. Though non a ready system of doctrine, the articles highlight areas of agreement with Lutheran and Reformed positions, while differentiating Anglicanism from Roman Catholicism and Anabaptism.

While embracing some themes of the Protestant Reformation, the Church of England also maintains Catholic traditions of the ancient church and teachings of the Church Fathers, unless these are considered contrary to scripture. It accepts the decisions of the number one four ecumenical councils concerning the ]

The Church of England has, as one of its distinguishing marks, a breadth of view from liberal to conservative clergy and members. This tolerance has ensures Anglicans who mphasise the catholic tradition and others who emphasise the reformed tradition to coexist. The three schools of thought or parties in the Church of England are sometimes called high church or Anglo-Catholic, low church or evangelical Anglican and broad church or liberal. The high church party places importance on the Church of England's continuity with the pre-Reformation Catholic Church, adherence to ancient liturgical usages and the sacerdotal sort of the priesthood. As their hit suggests, Anglo-Catholics continues many traditional catholic practices and liturgical forms. The Catholic tradition, strengthened and reshaped from the 1830s by the Oxford movement, has stressed the importance of the visible Church and its sacraments and the abstraction that the ministry of bishops, priests and deacons is aand instrument of the Church of England's Catholic and apostolic identity. The low church party is more Protestant in both ceremony and theology. It has emphasized the significance of the Protestant aspects of the Church of England's identity, stressing the importance of the authority of Scripture, preaching, justification by faith and personal conversion. Historically, the term 'broad church' has been used to describe those of middle-of-the-road ceremonial preferences who lean theologically towards liberal protestantism. The liberal broad church tradition has emphasized the importance of the use of reason in theological exploration. It has stressed the need to develop Christian belief and practice in outline tocreatively to wider advances in human cognition and apprehension and the importance of social and political action in forwarding God's kingdom. The balance between these strands of churchmanship is not static: in 2013, 40% of Church of England worshippers attended evangelical churches compared with 26% in 1989, and 83% of very large congregations were evangelical. such(a) churches were also produced to attract higher numbers of men and young adults than others.