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- 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
- American Episcopalians maintain stubborn resistance to warnings by the world Anglican Communion that they have recklessly broken fellowship.
- It is an issue that threatens to tear asunder the world-wide Anglican Communion and it may even cause a split in the Church of Ireland, both North and South.
- The most important figure today in the Anglican Communion, a worldwide federation of churches with some 75 million adherents, is probably a man few people in the West know anything about: Archbishop Peter Jasper Akinola, of Nigeria. Defender of the Faith
- As leader of the Anglican Communion, the archbishop faced growing demands on his time from Anglican churches abroad.
- His call in a sermon in Leeds came on the 10th anniversary of the Act, as the campaign to allow women to be consecrated as bishops has reignited the controversy in the Anglican communion.
- In April, I attended the meeting of the primates of the Anglican Communion in my capacity as staff to the Presiding Bishop.
- A cleric acting in the place of a rector or bishop in the Anglican Communion generally.
- Turned down the ultimatum from "The Anglican Communion" that a committee of bishops from abroad must come to the U.S. and "administer" on behalf of the anti-gay conservatives. Gail Godwin's 'Solo Notes' Journal: Narrative Magazine's Friday Feature
- He believed in religious toleration but supported an established church, the Anglican Communion.
- Any pro-gay action, he said, would "imperil" the future of the Anglican Communion. The Christian Post RSS Feed
