The Church of England (C of E) is the established Christian church in England and the Crown Dependencies. It is the origin of the Anglican tradition,...
144 KB (15,384 words) - 18:25, 17 December 2024
Catholic Church in England and Wales (Latin: Ecclesia Catholica in Anglia et Cambria; Welsh: Yr Eglwys Gatholig yng Nghymru a Lloegr) is part of the worldwide...
147 KB (18,076 words) - 23:28, 11 December 2024
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It is located on the island of Great Britain, of which it covers about 62%, and more than 100...
228 KB (21,702 words) - 21:53, 14 December 2024
The Church of England traces its history back to 597. That year, a group of missionaries sent by the pope and led by Augustine of Canterbury began the...
85 KB (10,521 words) - 01:42, 10 November 2024
A parish church in the Church of England is the church which acts as the religious centre for the people within each Church of England parish (the smallest...
14 KB (740 words) - 20:56, 7 May 2024
The active bishops of the Church of England are usually either diocesan bishops or suffragan bishops. Several also hold portfolios of national responsibility...
152 KB (7,343 words) - 16:49, 14 December 2024
Presbyterian Church of England was a late-19th century and 20th century Presbyterian denomination in England. The church's origins lay in the 1876 merger of the...
1 KB (108 words) - 20:44, 15 June 2024
legislative organ of the Church of England. The synod was instituted in 1970, replacing the Church Assembly, and is the culmination of a process of rediscovering...
12 KB (1,391 words) - 00:11, 6 December 2024
The Free Church of England (FCE) is an Episcopal Church based in England. The church was founded when a number of congregations separated from the established...
16 KB (1,717 words) - 17:32, 8 November 2024
Malmesbury (redirect from Malmesbury Church of England School)
Wiltshire, England, which lies approximately 14 miles (23 km) west of Swindon, 25 miles (40 km) northeast of Bristol, and 9 miles (14 km) north of Chippenham...
48 KB (5,630 words) - 21:59, 5 December 2024
There are 42 dioceses of the Church of England. These cover England, the Isle of Man, the Channel Islands and a small part of Wales. The Diocese in Europe...
36 KB (1,670 words) - 19:14, 6 June 2024
The Supreme Governor of the Church of England is the titular head of the Church of England, a position which is vested in the British monarch. Although...
11 KB (815 words) - 16:24, 31 August 2024
Westminster (redirect from St Gabriel's Church of England Primary School)
Peter's Abbey to provide himself with a royal burial church. It was the first church in England built in the Romanesque style. The building was completed...
26 KB (2,624 words) - 14:07, 20 November 2024
shore up the position of the re-established Church of England. Charles acquiesced to these new laws even though he favoured a policy of religious tolerance...
84 KB (9,769 words) - 22:26, 18 December 2024
The title of Supreme Head of the Church of England was created in 1531 for King Henry VIII when he first began to separate the Church of England from the...
5 KB (275 words) - 11:12, 11 September 2024
The flag of England is the national flag of England, a constituent country of the United Kingdom. It is derived from Saint George's Cross (heraldic blazon:...
38 KB (3,979 words) - 07:16, 19 December 2024
asserted the exclusivity of church weddings to unions between a man and a woman. At General Synod in 2019, the Church of England announced that same-gender...
295 KB (29,280 words) - 01:30, 21 December 2024
a church was extended to churches that their parents or grandparents were married in or if they were baptised or confirmed in it. Church of England and...
33 KB (4,152 words) - 00:35, 4 December 2024
Stratford, London (redirect from West Ham Church Of England Primary School)
town in East London, England, in the London Borough of Newham. Part of the Lower Lea Valley, it is 6 miles (9.7 km) northeast of Charing Cross, and includes...
63 KB (6,879 words) - 21:51, 6 December 2024
The Kingdom of England was a sovereign state on the island of Great Britain from the early tenth century, when it was unified from various Anglo-Saxon...
58 KB (6,435 words) - 00:31, 15 December 2024
Middle Ages. The (Anglican) Church of England became the independent established church in England and Wales in 1534 as a result of the English Reformation...
74 KB (8,803 words) - 02:27, 21 November 2024
Movement/Anglo-Catholic/High Church, which sought to reintroduce a range of Roman Catholic liturgical practices to the Church of England. Ritualism is also seen...
22 KB (2,959 words) - 09:42, 22 November 2024
Twyford C of E High School is a co-educational Church of England Academy school located in Acton, west London. It consists of just under 1500 pupils aged...
9 KB (679 words) - 13:22, 8 December 2024
the Church of England, the Church in Wales, the Scottish Episcopal Church and the Church of Ireland. For a list of all dioceses worldwide see List of Anglican...
5 KB (61 words) - 22:25, 1 December 2023
allegiance to the British monarch as Supreme Governor of the Church of England. The Episcopal Church describes itself as "Protestant, yet catholic" and asserts...
157 KB (16,931 words) - 00:19, 21 December 2024
accepting Henry VIII of England as head of the church, rather than the Pope. This marks the founding of the reformed Church of Ireland, confirmed when...
82 KB (8,544 words) - 23:15, 20 December 2024
Henry VIII (redirect from Henry VIII, King of England)
Reformation, separating the Church of England from papal authority. He appointed himself Supreme Head of the Church of England and dissolved convents and...
142 KB (16,931 words) - 15:49, 18 December 2024
religions. The Church of England is the nation's established state church, whose supreme governor is the monarch. Other Christian traditions in England include...
53 KB (4,604 words) - 10:35, 19 December 2024
Congregationalism (redirect from Congregational Church)
United Kingdom, the Puritan Reformation of the Church of England laid the foundation for these churches. In England, the early Congregationalists were called...
45 KB (5,316 words) - 20:32, 28 October 2024
The Church of England commemorates many of the same saints as those in the General Roman Calendar, mostly on the same days, but also commemorates various...
29 KB (3,324 words) - 05:16, 19 August 2024