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See also:ANGLICAN COMMUNION , the name used to denote that See also:great See also:branch of the See also:Christian See also:- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
Church consisting of the various churches in communion with the Church of See also:England. The See also:necessity for such a phrase as " Anglican Communion," first used in the 19th See also:century, marked at once the immense development of the Anglican Church in See also:modern times and the See also:change which his taken See also:place in the traditional conceptions of its See also:character and See also:sphere. The Church of England itself is the subject of a See also:separate See also:article (see ENGLAND, CHURCH OF); and it is not without significance that for more than two centuries after the See also:Reformation the See also:history of Anglicanism is practically confined to its developments within the limits of the See also:British Isles. Even in See also:Ireland, where it was for over three centuries the established See also:religion, and in See also:Scotland, where it See also:early gave way to the dominant See also:Presbyterianism, its religious was See also:long overshadowed by its See also:political significance. The Church, in fact, while still claiming to be See also:Catholic in its See also:creeds and in its religious practice, had ceased to be Catholic in its institutional conception, which was now See also:bound up with a particular See also:state and also with a particular conception of that state. To the native Irishman and the Scots-See also:man, as indeed to most Englishmen, the Anglican Church was one of the See also:main buttresses of the supremacy of the See also:English See also:crown and nation. This conception of the relations of church and state was hardly favourable to missionary zeal; and in the See also:age succeeding the Reformation there was no disposition on the See also:part of the English Church to emulate the wonderful activity of the See also:Jesuits, which, in the 16th and 17th centuries, brought to the Church of See also:Rome in countries beyond the ocean See also:compensation for what she had lost in See also:Europe through the See also:Protestant reformation. Even when English churchmen passed beyond the seas, they carried with them their creed, but not their ecclesiastical organization. See also:Prejudice and real or imaginary legal obstacles stood in the way of the erection of episcopal See also:sees in the colonies; and though in the 17th century See also:Archbishop See also:Laud had attempted to obtain a See also:bishop for See also:Virginia, up to the See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time of the See also:American revolution the churchmen of the colonies had to make the best of the legal fiction that their spiritual needs were looked after by the bishop of See also:London, who occasionally sent commissaries to visit them and ordained candidates for the See also:ministry sent to England for the purpose.
The change which has made it possible for Anglican churchmen to claim that their communion ranks with those of Rome and the Orthodox See also:East as one of the three great See also:historical divisions of the Catholic Church, was due, in the first instance, to the American revolution. The severance of the colonies from their See also:allegiance to the crown brought the English bishops for the first time See also:face to face with the See also:idea of an Anglican Church which should have nothing to do either with the royal supremacy or with British See also:nationality. When, on the conclusion of See also:peace, the church-See also:people of See also:Connecticut sent Dr See also:Samuel See also:Seabury to England, with a See also:request to the archbishop of See also:Canterbury to consecrate him, it is not surprising that Archbishop See also:Moore refused. In the See also:opinion of prelates and lawyers alike, an See also:act of See also:parliament was necessary before a bishop could be consecrated for a see abroad; to consecrate one for a See also:foreign See also:country seemed impossible, since, though the bestowal of the poteslas ordinis would be valid, the crown, which, according to the See also:law, was the source of the episcopal See also:jurisdiction, could hardly issue the necessary See also:mandate for the See also:consecration of a bishop to a sec outside the See also:realm (see Bishop). The Scottish bishops, however, being hampered by no such legal restrictions, were more See also:amen-able; and on the 11th of See also:November 1784 Seabury was consecrated by them to the see of Connecticut.
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