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The British monarch (at present, Elizabeth II), has the constitutional title of "Supreme Governor of the Church of England". In practice, however, the administrative leadership of the church falls to the Archbishop of Canterbury. The worldwide Anglican Communion of independent national or regional churches recognises the Archbishop of Canterbury as a kind of 'symbolic' leader. The Most Revd and Rt Hon. D ...

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On August 2003 the Episcopal Diocese of New Hampshire elected an openly gay priest, Gene Robinson as bishop. This came shortly after a similar controversy in the UK, when the gay Canon Jeffrey John was almost consecrated Bishop of Reading. However, at that time John agreed to withdraw in order to avoid division. Although later in 2004 in the aftermath of the Gene Robinson, Jeffrey John was then installed as ...

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List of Christian denominations - Oriental Orthodox Communion. Armenian Apostolic Church Coptic Orthodox Church Ethiopian Orthodox Church Eritrean Orthodox Church Indian Orthodox Church ("Malankara Syrian") Syrian Orthodox Church ("Jacobite Syrian") The Antiochian Catholic Church in America is theologically aligned with these Churches, but is not in full communion with them, primarily ...

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There is a wide range of beliefs within the Anglican Communion regarding homosexuality. Some of the more specific issues which member churches and dioceses are struggling with are: Homosexual members of the church/communion May they exist? Must they be celibate? Should we bless same sex unions of GLBT members? Homosexual Clergy May they exist? May they be openly Homosexual? To what extent may they be "out" (eg. only to their Bishop/their partner/their mot ...

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All clergy are in theory appointed by the crown. Indeed no clergyman can be inducted into a parish without the reading of the royal warrant. For practical purposes parish clergy are appointed by the bishops. The process of appointing diocesan bishops is more complex, and is handled by a body called the Crown Nominations Committee, which submits names to the Prime Minister (acting on behalf of the Crown) for consideration. This process is described in the ...

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Main article: History of the Church of England 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. Christianity arrived in Britain in the first or second centuries (probably via the tin trade route through Ireland and Spain), and existed independently of the Church of Rome, ...

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List of Christian denominations - Catholic churches accepting the primacy of the Roman Pontiff. Albanian Catholic Church Armenian Catholic Church Belarusian Catholic Church Bulgarian Catholic Church Byzantine Catholic Church Chaldean Catholic Church Coptic Catholic Church Ethiopian Catholic Church Georgian Catholic Church Greek Catholic Church Hungarian Catholic Church Italo-Albanian Catholic Church L ...

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List of Christian denominations - Episcopal. General Church of the New Jerusalem The Lord's New Church which is Nova Hierosolyma List of Christian denominations - Congregational. General Conference of the New Church (England) Swedenborgian Church of North America formerly General Convention of the New Jerusalem (USA)See also:

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List of Christian denominations - Eastern Orthodox Churches. (In order of precedence. Indentation indicates autonomy rather than autocephaly) Orthodox Church of Constantinople: the Ecumenical Patriarchate Orthodox Church of Mount Sinai Orthodox Church of Finland Orthodox Church of Estonia Orthodox Church of Alexandria Antiochian Orthodox Church Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese of North America Orth ...

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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. In particular, the state 'recognises' the independence of the Church of Scotland in matters spiritual, thus no ministers are appointed by the Crown or the State. The Church of Scotland has a Presbyterian system of government. A smaller Anglican church also exists in Scotland, known as the Scottish Episcopal Church, ...

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