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I'm not an expert on the CofE. Looking at Doncaster Minster I started to wonder about the Major Churches Network: the minster is listed in the {{ Major Churches Network}} template but there seems no reliable source which confirms the membership of that network. See Talk:Major Churches Network for discussion: please contribute there.
But I then found a listing of the churches designated "Major Parish Church", all 312 of them, in the Church Heritage Record, along with some other interesting "types" such as Festival Church. I've added a section to this article, expanding "Online Directory" to "Online Directories". It may be that there is some more appropriate place for this information: if so, of course please move the content (using {{ copied}} to retain attribution), with appropriate navigation to make it easy to find. Pam D 09:02, 9 December 2021 (UTC)
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I feel it is too soon to report a schism of the Global South and to give it prominence in the lede. Disregarding the writers of headlines in the sources, we have only a dissenting statement by a number of prelates. The ABC source says "The move brings a schism in the communion closer" and that nothing has formally changed. -- Wire723 ( talk) 18:36, 22 February 2023 (UTC)
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The church of England does not consider itself Protestant. The Church claims to be both Catholic and Reformed. Not Protestant. With high, middle and low, Anglican churches.
The church of England is not Roman Catholic. Roman Catholic, Orthodox and Anglican churches are different, but they are not Protestant. Although the protestant reformation did play a big part in the Anglican separation from Rome, the Anglican church (C of E) is catholic in that it views itself as the "unbroken continuation of the early apostolic and later medieval "universal church", rather than as a "new formation".
I am an Anglican nun.
https://www.history.com/topics/european-history/church-of-england#
https://www.cs.mcgill.ca/~rwest/wikispeedia/wpcd/wp/c/Church_of_England.htm
https://www.church-of-england.org/2017/07/28/4-differences-between-catholicism-and-the-church-of-england/ SophiaWrose ( talk) 18:18, 12 May 2023 (UTC)
There are definitely historians we could cite saying that the Church of England was historically Protestant in its theology and its self-identification. The CofE's identity becomes more contested when we look at how Anglicans see themselves today. The influence of the Oxford Movement and Anglo-Catholicism is strong, and many Anglicans would not identify as Protestants today. Ltwin ( talk) 22:25, 17 May 2023 (UTC)
Re the recent revert of 'less than 1 million' under the 'congregations' field - the editor who inserted this meant to say that there were fewer than 1 million worshippers rather than congregatiosn in the sense of worship groups. He or she has earlier tried to isnert this number under a non-existent 'worshippers' field in the infobox, which I reverted. So the figure is plausible, not being meant to be the same as the number of churches; but there is nowhere to put it (and it is unsourced although the article sourced figures suggets it isn't unrealistic). Sbishop ( talk) 10:07, 7 July 2023 (UTC)
In this diff, @ Pbritti reverted text describing one of the first usages of the prayers of love and faith.
Hello, you say "Unencyclopedic; the November action sufficiently captures the change".
The key fact here is that at least one blessing actually took place. There has been much confusion over whether permission had been given and when it might happen, so it is WP:DUE to include this occurrence. AndyGordon ( talk) 21:21, 18 December 2023 (UTC)
The recent edit to include mention of Protestant and Catholic practises (and note the correct British spelling of "practises" when its used as a verb) was not only historically and theologically correct, it was also balanced and appropriate (unlike the previous version). The Church of England is not just a "Protestant church" (despite what some may want to believe) and many Anglicans reject that description. Whatever it may have been at various times in history, Anglicanism is now properly understood as being a distinct Christian tradition of its own which combines strong elements of both the Reformed and Catholic traditions. The present wording should not be reverted or changed without consensus. Anglicanus ( talk) 04:38, 9 May 2024 (UTC)
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I'm not an expert on the CofE. Looking at Doncaster Minster I started to wonder about the Major Churches Network: the minster is listed in the {{ Major Churches Network}} template but there seems no reliable source which confirms the membership of that network. See Talk:Major Churches Network for discussion: please contribute there.
But I then found a listing of the churches designated "Major Parish Church", all 312 of them, in the Church Heritage Record, along with some other interesting "types" such as Festival Church. I've added a section to this article, expanding "Online Directory" to "Online Directories". It may be that there is some more appropriate place for this information: if so, of course please move the content (using {{ copied}} to retain attribution), with appropriate navigation to make it easy to find. Pam D 09:02, 9 December 2021 (UTC)
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I feel it is too soon to report a schism of the Global South and to give it prominence in the lede. Disregarding the writers of headlines in the sources, we have only a dissenting statement by a number of prelates. The ABC source says "The move brings a schism in the communion closer" and that nothing has formally changed. -- Wire723 ( talk) 18:36, 22 February 2023 (UTC)
![]() | → Talk:Church of England/Archive 1#Protestantism |
The church of England does not consider itself Protestant. The Church claims to be both Catholic and Reformed. Not Protestant. With high, middle and low, Anglican churches.
The church of England is not Roman Catholic. Roman Catholic, Orthodox and Anglican churches are different, but they are not Protestant. Although the protestant reformation did play a big part in the Anglican separation from Rome, the Anglican church (C of E) is catholic in that it views itself as the "unbroken continuation of the early apostolic and later medieval "universal church", rather than as a "new formation".
I am an Anglican nun.
https://www.history.com/topics/european-history/church-of-england#
https://www.cs.mcgill.ca/~rwest/wikispeedia/wpcd/wp/c/Church_of_England.htm
https://www.church-of-england.org/2017/07/28/4-differences-between-catholicism-and-the-church-of-england/ SophiaWrose ( talk) 18:18, 12 May 2023 (UTC)
There are definitely historians we could cite saying that the Church of England was historically Protestant in its theology and its self-identification. The CofE's identity becomes more contested when we look at how Anglicans see themselves today. The influence of the Oxford Movement and Anglo-Catholicism is strong, and many Anglicans would not identify as Protestants today. Ltwin ( talk) 22:25, 17 May 2023 (UTC)
Re the recent revert of 'less than 1 million' under the 'congregations' field - the editor who inserted this meant to say that there were fewer than 1 million worshippers rather than congregatiosn in the sense of worship groups. He or she has earlier tried to isnert this number under a non-existent 'worshippers' field in the infobox, which I reverted. So the figure is plausible, not being meant to be the same as the number of churches; but there is nowhere to put it (and it is unsourced although the article sourced figures suggets it isn't unrealistic). Sbishop ( talk) 10:07, 7 July 2023 (UTC)
In this diff, @ Pbritti reverted text describing one of the first usages of the prayers of love and faith.
Hello, you say "Unencyclopedic; the November action sufficiently captures the change".
The key fact here is that at least one blessing actually took place. There has been much confusion over whether permission had been given and when it might happen, so it is WP:DUE to include this occurrence. AndyGordon ( talk) 21:21, 18 December 2023 (UTC)
The recent edit to include mention of Protestant and Catholic practises (and note the correct British spelling of "practises" when its used as a verb) was not only historically and theologically correct, it was also balanced and appropriate (unlike the previous version). The Church of England is not just a "Protestant church" (despite what some may want to believe) and many Anglicans reject that description. Whatever it may have been at various times in history, Anglicanism is now properly understood as being a distinct Christian tradition of its own which combines strong elements of both the Reformed and Catholic traditions. The present wording should not be reverted or changed without consensus. Anglicanus ( talk) 04:38, 9 May 2024 (UTC)