Time to Face Facts (for Anglican Church)IT'S NOW ABSOLUTELY CLEAR that the church's national corporate structure, the General Synod, is...Harris, David
Ireland was the last Western European country to adopt Catholicism. Until the 15th century the Irish belonged to the Celtic Church, and mass was universally given in Gaelic, not Latin (as was the norm then). Ironically the Irish joined the Roman Catholic Church at the time when Henry...
Throughout most of the 1600s, Massachusetts consisted of not one, but two primary colonies: the “Old Colony” of Plymouth and the larger, more powerful Massachusetts Bay colony. Plymouth Colony was settled by Pilgrims, a band of religious exiles that separated from the Anglican Church while Ma...
Wales contains some of the UK's most beautiful scenery. It's also a country that has had a turbulent past. Find out some interesting facts about the "land of song".
A churchrefers to a building or a place of worship for Christians. It serves as a gathering place for members of a Christian religious community to come together for communal worship, prayer, and other religious activities. See the fact file below for more information about the Church, or you...
Also known as ‘St John the Unfinished’, it is the largest Anglican church in the world and the seat of the Bishop of New York. Despite its huge size, about half has yet to be built. 5. Milan Cathedral Location: Milan, Italy Built: 1386-1965 Area: 10,186 square metres (109,641 ...
A common misconception about Henry is that he wrote the songGreensleeves, when in reality this is unlikely. Henry VIII founded the Anglican Church by breaking away from the Catholic Church mainly because the Pope refused to grant Henry an annulment of his marriage to Catherine of Aragon. ...
Dorothy Kerin, the first Anglican with the stigmata Another one of the first experiences of the stigmata outside the Catholic Church involves a British woman namedDorothy Kerin(1889-1963). She is believed to be the first Anglican to have ever experienced the stigmata. Her mystical experiences beg...
6) Throughout most of its history, the people of England have been mainly Christian in religion, and today the Anglican Christian Church of England is England's established church. This church also has a constitutional position within the United Kingdom. Other religions practiced in England includ...
She was baptised by the Anglican Archbishop of York, Cosmo Gordon Lang, in the private chapel of Buckingham Palace on 29 May. She was named Elizabeth after her mother Alexandra after her paternal great-grandmother, who had died six months earlie, and Mary after her paternal grandmother. ...