Anglican Church

The Anglican Communion is the third largest Christian communion after the Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox churches. Founded in 1867 in London, the communion has more than 85 million members within the Church of England and other autocephalous national and regional churches in full communion.

Anglican Church

What does an Anglican Church believe?

Trinitarian – Anglicans believe that there is One God who exists eternally in three persons—Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. Furthermore, we believe that Jesus Christ is completely God and is also completely human. If a religious group does not teach these two doctrines, we do not recognize them as Christian.

Is Anglican Church Catholic or Protestant?

Anglicanism, one of the major branches of the 16th-century Protestant Reformation and a form of Christianity that includes features of both Protestantism and Roman Catholicism.

What is difference between Catholic and Anglican?

Anglicans are part of a “communion” of churches and don’t have a central authority. Generally speaking, the Archbishop of Canterbury is considered the “first among equals” and the English monarch still retains a symbolic role. Catholics firmly hold-up the authority of the pope, who is the successor of St. Peter.

What is meant by an Anglican Church?

1. : of or relating to the established episcopal Church of England and churches of similar faith and order in communion with it. 2. : of or relating to England or the English nation.