FREE CHURCH OF ENGLAND
Online Encyclopedia
Originally appearing in Volume
V11,
Page 71
of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
See also:FREE 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 OF See also:ENGLAND
, a See also:Protestant episcopal 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 " essentially one with the established church of See also:England, but See also:free to go into any See also:parish, to use a revised edition of the See also:Book of See also:Common See also:Prayer, to See also:associate the laity with the See also:clergy in the See also:government and See also:work of the church, and to hold communion with Christians of other denominations." It was founded in 1844
in opposition to the Tractarian See also:movement, and embodies the distinctively evangelical elements of the See also:Reformation
.
It pre-serves and maintains to the See also:letter all that is Protestant and evangelical in the See also:liturgy and services of the See also:Anglican church, while its free constitution and revised formularies meet the needs of members of that communion who resent sacerdotal and ritualistic tendencies
.
There are two dioceses (See also:northern and See also:southern) each with a See also:bishop, about 30 churches and ministers, and about 1300 members
.
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