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CHURCH CONGRESS

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Originally appearing in Volume V06, Page 330 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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CHURCH See also:CONGRESS , an See also:annual See also:meeting of members of the Church of See also:England, See also:lay and clerical, to discuss matters religious, moral or social, in which the church is interested. It has no legislative authority, and there is no voting on the questions discussed. The first congress was held in 1861 in the See also:hall of See also:King's See also:College, See also:Cambridge, and was the outcome of the revival of See also:convocation in 1852. The congress is under the See also:presidency of the See also:bishop in whose See also:diocese it happens to be held. See also:Recent places of meeting are See also:Brighton (1901), See also:Northampton (1902), See also:Bristol (1903), See also:Liverpool (1904), See also:Weymouth (1905), See also:Barrow-in-See also:Furness (1906), See also:Great See also:Yarmouth (1907), See also:Manchester (1908), See also:Swansea (1909). The meetings of the congress have been mainly remarkable as illustrating the wide divergences of See also:opinion and practice in the Church of England, no less than the broad spirit of tolerance which has made this possible and honourably differentiates these meetings from so many ecclesiastical assemblies of the past. The congress of 1908 was especially distinguished, not only for the expression of diametrically opposed views on such questions as the See also:sacrifice of the See also:mass or the " higher See also:criticism," but for the very large proportion of See also:time given to the discussion of the attitude of the Church towards See also:Socialism and kindred subjects.

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