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Anglican Church ("English Church") refers to Christian churches in the Anglican tradition. Anglican Church may refer to: The Church of England, mother church of the Anglican Communion. The Anglican Communion or one of its member churches. Anglican Church (Bordighera), in Italy. Anglican Church (Bucharest), in Romania.
The Anglican Church of Tanzania ( ACT; Swahili: Kanisa la Anglikana la Tanzania) is a province of the Anglican Communion based in Dodoma. It consists of 28 dioceses (27 on the Tanzanian mainland, and 1 on Zanzibar) headed by their respective bishops. It seceded from the Province of East Africa in 1970, which it shared with Kenya.
The Global Fellowship of Confessing Anglicans (branded as GAFCON or Gafcon) is a communion of conservative Anglican churches that formed in 2008 in response to ongoing theological disputes in the worldwide Anglican Communion. Conservative Anglicans met in 2008 at the Global Anglican Future Conference, creating the Jerusalem Declaration and ...
The ordination of women in the Anglican Communion has been increasingly common in certain provinces since the 1970s. Several provinces, however, and certain dioceses within otherwise ordaining provinces, continue to ordain only men. Disputes over the ordination of women have contributed to the establishment and growth of progressive tendencies ...
C. S. Lewis. Clive Staples Lewis FBA (29 November 1898 – 22 November 1963) was a British writer, literary scholar, and Anglican lay theologian. He held academic positions in English literature at both Magdalen College, Oxford (1925–1954), and Magdalene College, Cambridge (1954–1963). He is best known as the author of The Chronicles of ...
Anglican Communion. Primates in the Anglican Communion are the most senior bishop or archbishop of one of the 42 [1] churches of the Anglican Communion. [2] The Church of England, however, has two primates, the Archbishop of Canterbury and the Archbishop of York .
The Anglican Church of Canada ( ACC or ACoC) is the province of the Anglican Communion in Canada. [2] The official French-language name is l'Église anglicane du Canada. [3] [4] In 2022, the Anglican Church counted 294,931 members on parish rolls in 1,978 congregations, organized into 1,498 parishes. [1] [5] The 2021 Canadian census counted ...
