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The Church of England is the state church in England. It is divided into two provinces, York and Canterbury, with 43 dioceses and about 27 million members. The queen or the king is the head of the ecclesiastical hierarchy and secondly the archbishops of Canterbury and York.
The beginnings of the English church lie in the 2-nd century as businesspeople and other travellers than first the Christianity to Britain brought. The transmission of the holy Augustinus of Canterbury in the year 597 is ordinarily looked as the formal beginning of the church under the papal authority how there also remained the whole Middle Ages through. In her today's form the church goes back on the English Reformation in the 16-th century when the royal supremacy was introduced and the authority of the pope was rejected. At the beginning of the British colonization the church of England on all continents spread and came too international meaning. With the time these churches attained her independence, but they stayed in connection with there mother church in the Anglican community.
The church of England distinguishes itself by the takeover of the triple office of bishop, priest and deacon, and by a common order of the service, as it is to be found in the Book of Common Prayer (book for the common prayer). The church is characterized by a general loyal posture to the Christian tradition, during a huge number of people and opinions is tried to take up at the same time. She stands in the tension between the authorities of tradition, reason and Bible and the Bible has the precedence. Thus she tries Catholic, humane and reformed elements spend together which are reflected historically in the Anglo Catholic (high church), the liberals (broad church) and the Protestants (low church).
The state churches status of the church of England means that all bishop's appointments are carried out by the king or queen and that all liturgical changes must be confirmed by the parliament. In today's time the parliament from non-Anglicans and Anglicans consists, and, hence, the church is in a bad position. This led to strains how they are represented, for example, by Oxford Movement, they try to receive the intactness of the church by a separation from the state. On the other side strains been undertaken other Christians are just thereby to be integrated, however, also into the state church. The church of England is also active in the economic movement.
In the 70s and 80s of our century the church of England was in discussions about the licensing of women to the office of the ordained priest. In November 1992 after a hard debate, agreed the churches-leading organs with the brief majority of a measure which allowed the ordination of women. |
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