NOUN
- the national church of England (and all other churches in other countries that share its beliefs); has its see in Canterbury and the sovereign as its temporal head
How To Use Anglican Communion In A Sentence
- We believe that if he is consecrated, the unity of the Church of England and Anglican Communion will be disrupted.
- The 650-odd bishops who attended the once-a-decade Lambeth conference went home with open schism between the liberal and conservative wings of the worldwide Anglican Communion averted.
- Compared with the Book of Common Prayer, modern prayer books in the Anglican Communion are grossly overweight.
- The disease has been so long associated with illicit sexual activity that there's been an overpowering silence on the issue," admits the Rev. Ted Karpf, HIV/AIDS missioner for the Anglican Communion in southern Africa. Time To Get Religion
- The current unhappy divisions among some bishops of the Anglican Communion has this issue of creedal Christianity and propositional revelation at its root.
- I observe, as well, that the Archbishop of Canterbury affirmed in February 2008 that his “office and that of the Anglican Communion recognize one ecclesial body in Canada as a constitutive member of the Communion, the Anglican Church of Canada”. ANiC loses buildings in New Westminster court battle « Anglican Samizdat
- But the archbishop is perhaps the most powerful member of a global alliance of conservative bishops and theologians, generously supported by foundations and individual donors in the United States, who seek to dominate the Anglican Communion and expel those who oppose them, particularly the Episcopal Church and the Anglican Church of Canada. Civil Rights
- He believed in religious toleration but supported an established church, the Anglican Communion.
- The king denied papal authority over England, and the Anglican Communion was born.
- If we assume 10% of those same-sex couples were Anglican, that means that the Anglican Church of Canada is about to alienate itself from the world wide Anglican Communion, jeopardise ecumenical relations with all other conservative denominations, drive out the orthodox from its midst, and continue its Gadarene plunge into oblivion for the sake of 0.00083% of the population. How many gay people actually want to get married in an Anglican church? « Anglican Samizdat
