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Church of England - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (1543 words) |
 | The Church of England is the officially established Christian church in England and acts as the mother and senior branch of the worldwide Anglican Communion as well as a founding member of the Porvoo Communion. |
| The Church of England traces its formal corporate history from the 597 Augustinian mission, stresses its continuity and identity with the primitive universal Western church, and notes the consolidation of its particular independent and national character in the post-Reformation events of Tudor England. |
| In Scotland, the Church of Scotland is recognised in law (Church of Scotland Act 1921) as the "national church", but since 1929 it has not been "established" in the same manner as the Church of England. |
| Church of England: Definition and Much More From Answers.com (3184 words) |
| England, Church of, the established church of England and the mother church of the Anglican Communion. |
| During the Middle Ages the church in England was affected by the same clashes that bedevilled the relationship between church and state elsewhere in Europe. |
| The Church of England is Protestant and is governed by bishops, with the king or queen as its official head. |
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