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Sentence Examples Another brother, Henry, entered the Church and became chaplain to the Duke of York. Jesus' apostles and disciples in the early Church felt the importance of prayer ahead of missionary activity. He is a man who speaks forcefully, emphatically and, yes, sometimes controversially from the pulpit at First Baptist Church. Templar links to the local area have been found at the Old Church in Maghera where a bronze enamelled plaque was found in the graveyard. The Church was not a separate entity, but one that gave legal form and substance to the society of the time. St Augustine's was the first church in Ireland to be built by voluntary subscription since the Irish Church was disestablished and disendowed. The first major policy he introduced, in 1869, was the Irish Church Act, which disestablished and disendowed the Church of Ireland. When the Church of Ireland was disestablished in 1870, the Cathedral Chapter found itself totally disendowed and without funds. An Act of Parliament in 1920 disestablished and disendowed the Anglican Church within the Principality. The Utah-based Church in the late 19th century banned the practice of taking plural wives and ex-communicates members who practice polygamy. The race sets off from Durisdeer Church, and shows no mercy until the arrival at yet another church for a well-deserved cream tea. But my lot is cast in with the West Indian disendowed Church, and with the poorest diocese thereof. He disestablished and disendowed the Irish Church and established a national education system. In his 1868 to 1874 government, Gladstone disestablished the Church of Ireland. The simple alternative would be for the Church of England to be disestablished. A decree issued in February 1918 disestablished the Church and confirmed the equality of all religious faiths before the law. From the perspective of the liturgy of the Church this understanding of spirit has created a very formal and lifeless kind of worship. He hoped, in other words, to engineer a way around the recent disestablishment of the Anglican Church of Virginia. To many this seemed a first step towards the disestablishment of the Church of England. He and the Church are entering a period of reflection, contemplation, and prayer. Show More Sentences The bishop ended by apologising for upsetting his flock and saying he had been honoured to serve the Church. So he decided to make peace with the Church in order to have a free hand to deal with his more dangerous enemies. There were, then, good practical reasons why Englishmen should control the English Church and mould its character and personnel. The Church of England allows its celestial liturgy to be displaced by electric guitars. In contrast, Church was more favorably disposed towards the use of budgets in business. They also committed the Church to a future Anglican toleration of Protestant dissenters. But, receiving the Eucharist also means that one is in fact in full communion with Christ and His Church. The induction of the Eucharistic Ministers by Bishop Fleming takes place on Sunday next, January 23rd in Knockmore Church at 11 am Mass. Core values were duly identified as folk music, the sea, the countryside and the Church of England. The Church defines Christmas as the twelve days from Christmas Day until the eve of Epiphany. These gatherings are a major event for professed evangelicals in the Church of England. To evangelize, we must allow the testimony of God, of the apostles, and of the Church to speak through us. If the divertissement and the etiquette were excellent derivatives, Church music had also its role to maintain. The conventuals print lots of books, mainly in Church Slavonian, because Orthodoxy in America still grows. The foundation of the Church is always the sacrifice of Christ on the Cross. Leeds Parish Church and Chelsea choirs later got together for a festival evensong, followed by a recital by the Chelsea singers. The Mennonite Church in Canada expresses such concern in eloquent, thoughtful terms. Amongst the distinctives of this Church are its commitment to episcopacy, the 1662 Prayer Book, and the Authorised Version. The Church celebrates 6 January as Epiphany, the day on which the Christ child was shown to the three Kings. They are autonomous, episcopal, Protestant Churches in fellowship with the Church of England. Show More Sentences As in 1662 the Anglican squirearchy would permit no weakening of the hierarchical and episcopalian structure of the Church. His Dialogues inspiringly portrayed the Italian Church as ascetic, preaching, thaumaturgic, but episcopally controlled. The Church Society rejected any suggestion the episcopate should be open to women, and said their ordination had damaged the Anglican Church. They then carried a cross through the streets to the Methodist Church for a united act of worship led by the Rev Mary Teed. Strip the Church of its tax exemption and levy huge duties against its property value. The British converted it into an Anglican Church in 1795 and in 1949 it joined the fraternity of the Church of South India. Local saints are frequently included, as well as figures of general importance, apostles, and doctors of the Church. Bishops obfuscate, cardinals equivocate and Church spokesmen prevaricate as the tide of media condemnation surges around them. Maurice did not regard himself as Broad Church, and his socialism seems at odds with Arnold's Erastianism. The doctrine ever since known as Erastianism still lives on in the Church of England, as least so far as episcopal appointments are concerned. But in efforts to erect fire walls against same-sex relationships, the Mormon Church is unparalleled. The foundation of the Dominican and Franciscan Orders of friars in the thirteenth century transformed the spiritual life of the Western Church. But the Church wants to challenge that finding by meeting and debating with leading thinkers on faith and contemporary living. In Delaware, Allen also encountered exhorters of the Methodist Society, then still affiliated with the Church of England. Sixteen years later, his body was exhumed and returned to France, where it was eventually laid to rest in the Church of St. Germain-des-Pres. Neither the Established Church nor the clergy at a local level really wished for change, but it is obvious that something had to happen. Before joining Holy Rood he was assistant curate at St George's Church in Tyldesley. Thereafter, formal rituals of exorcism were adopted by the Church throughout the medieval centuries. The Church would neither exorcise the children of the faithful nor subject them to the rite of exsufflation. Easter is the most important religious holiday and is highly revered by the Russian Orthodox Church with elaborate rituals and extravagance. Show More Sentences Several nationalistic organisations pursue this agenda using extreme individuals from the Orthodox Church. In one incident, a 16-year-old boy was left with a damaged eye socket and a broken nose following a fight in the cemetery at St Michael's Church. In case you are wondering why the Church did not choose a venue in the South, you must be living in dreamland. The choir now has sixteen boy trebles and thirteen men, some of whom are professional singers and some of whom are students at Christ Church. But these were the one-off fruits of the disendowment of the Church, a windfall which was unrepeatable on the same scale. Baptism implies full membership of the Church and must never be separated from that understanding. A service was held at a funeral home in Fairfield followed by burial at St Thomas Aquinas Church in the town. Her remains were removed from her residence to Inver Church, burial took place following Requiem mass in Inver Cemetery. She was invested as a serving sister of the Order of St John at a ceremony in the order's Grand Priory Church in Clerkenwell, London. Holy Thursday, Good Friday and Easter Day are the three most important days in the Church year. On Easter Monday, April 21, the Ramblers will meet at Bonniconlon Church at 12 noon. Paddy's funeral took place on Saturday in St. Clare's Church with interment in Mullies Cemetery. Locally, fundraising consists of an annual Church Gate collection, a golf classic in May, an annual flag day and personal donations. Outside the Church the flagpoles were adorned with the National and Papal flags. Many mistakenly believe that, in the years that followed, the Church governed both ecclesial and civil affairs with a heavy hand. There are, of course, other forms of authority in the Church than ecclesial ones. A prayerful woman from her youth, she imagined a life free of family obligations and devoted to the Church. Throughout the history of the Church it has been seen in many preachers of the Gospel. Church and state are closely intertwined in England, unlike in the United States. For most of them the interests of the established Church took precedence over sentimental attachment to the Stuart dynasty. Show More Sentences Donaldson becomes Crown Princess Mary, a Danish citizen and member of Denmark's State Lutheran Church. So the Church, recognising that its irenic precepts were largely ignored, tried to reduce the savagery of war. The performance date is Tuesday, April 1,8 in St Peter and Paul's Church, Portlaoise. Their rather irregular position within the Church of Ireland could not really continue. The work involved the widening of the entrance gateway thus eradicating the danger of traffic emerging unto Church Road from the church grounds. The Sanfedists were made into the irregular troops of the Papacy and all justice was dispensed in Church courts. In the Colonies, the status and concept of the Church of England changed irretrievably. Whitefield was converted in the spring of 1735, ordained a deacon in the Church of England in 1736, and preached his first sermon. In 1861, after some hesitation, he was ordained deacon in the Anglican Church but never chose to advance to full priesthood. Ensuring that Father's Day wasn't purely a male celebration, three women were also ordained deacons by the Church of Ireland. At this time she decided to become a deaconess in the Methodist Church and worked towards that end. She has also proposed a creative revival of the order of deaconesses that once existed in the Eastern Church. What is more, the Church enjoyed a preponderant influence in the daily lives of Italians, literally from the cradle to the grave. What might be called the dead hand of the Church organist and the academician has lain heavily over music in this country for a great many years. It has its own script of more than 200 characters, based on the ancient language Ge'ez, used now only in the Orthodox Church. The Presbyterian Church is the largest Presbyterian denomination in the US, with around 2.5 million members. Free Church Presbyterians were certainly high on Douglass' list of desirable converts to the antislavery cause. In England the Queen is Supreme Governor of the Church of England but when she crosses the border she automatically converts to Presbyterianism. The theological views held by the Lutheran Church to the contrary, the tombs assert the contiguity of the community of the living with the dead. He supported the elders in their stance and together they established the first presbytery of the Free Presbyterian Church. Show More Sentences These monasteries preserved the cultural riches of Greece and Rome, as well as the growing wisdom accumulated by the Church herself. Realizing that he might need some help, the Church sent the generals of the Dominican and Franciscan orders as his advisors. One of the duties of the dean of Christ Church is to preach the annual Christmas sermon. The Church is not only about forbidding the use of contraception and warning against the sins of the flesh. Some of the little children he knew and loved best at Oxford were the daughters of Henry Liddell, the dean of Christ Church. The former church warden at St Mary's Church in Deane, Bolton, is lay chairman of his local deanery. Due to the wonderful generosity of the parishioners, the Church has been modernised using beautiful and innovative designs. Church air was found to be considerably higher in carcinogenic polycyclic hydrocarbons than air beside roads travelled by 45,000 vehicles daily. Nancy Moore checks out a Church of the Cross ornament Thursday while pricing items for the bazaar. They have set out plans for a club reunion with Mass in St. Abban's Church, Doonane, at 7.30 pm for the living and deceased members of the Club. Three members of the congregation at St James' Church in Devizes are to undergo training to become Anglican priests. To be ordained a priest in the Church, a person had to be able to read Syriac and learn the Syriac liturgy by heart. He prepared for the priesthood in the Anglican Church at St Stephen's House, gaining a First in Theology. He is the first prison inmate to become a candidate for ordination to the priesthood in the Episcopal Church. An excellent defense of the need for a reformed universal primacy of the Bishop of Rome in a reunited Church is also included. This new Bulgarian Church embraced eight dioceses, Tirnovo being the primatial see, but the union with Rome was not of long duration. Each Sunday the airport flight path will take these aircraft in over the strains of Gaelic psalm singing in Back Free Church. Some few years ago now the Anglican Church returned the land to the local iwi. In a documentary to be shown on BBC 2 tonight, he will reveal his distaste for pomp and ceremony in the Anglican Church. The road was once a private avenue and belonged to the Church of Our Lady of Health. Show More Sentences There was one church in Yarmouth, St. Nicholas's Church, which was dedicated to St. Benedict. The busiest is Kuan Yin Ten Temple, near St George's Church, which is dedicated to the goddess of mercy. In England, many churches were dedicated to her, most notably St. Bride's Church in London's Fleet Street. The former soldier's coffin was draped in a Union Jack and carried to St Bartholomew's Church, in Park Lane, on a carriage drawn by two horses. The procession of about 50 vehicles, each one full of mourners, made its way from Clifton to St Oswald's Church, through Bell Farm. The statutory demand was left at 82 Church Street on 18th June 1999 by a process server. He was the bird and the other birds flocking to the tree were the souls he would save by establishing a Church here. As Church settles in at the table, she is neither striving to be the centre of attention nor attempting to deflect it. Highly conservative in doctrine and bluntly liberal in his social views, the pontiff has galvanised the Church. Because it is a state church, however, the Lutheran Church cannot defrock him. The panels are adored with Glagolitic letters of Old Church Slavonic beside samples of Chinese characters. It is hoped to erect the memorial at the lych gate, which leads into the grounds of the Holy Cross Church. The doctrines of the Church of England in which she was educated provided an important political and emotional prop for the rest of her life. He added that Wilton was lucky that Old St Mary's Church was now floodlit at night, thanks to the town's Rotary Club. He favors protectionist trade policies, the reinstitution of the death penalty, and emphasizes the importance of the family and Church. In contrast with the established Church in Wales, attempts to promote Protestantism in Gaelic were late and half-hearted. Today we got the final go-aheads and completed procedural formalities for our documentary on the Armenian Church. The American Church is the wealthiest of all 38 Anglican provinces, and dioceses such as Liberia are almost entirely dependent on its support. In mid June the Church will host an array of beautiful floral arrangements depicting parish, celebration and community. She enjoyed singing lessons, sang as a contralto in St Mary's Anglican Church choir and took part in many local concerts. Show More Sentences This summer they celebrated their golden wedding anniversary at the Prairie Rose Church and how they enjoyed the love and friendship of so many! The initial contribution will be used to add public art to the area in front of Keighley Shared Church and the adjacent car park. Among his other devices to rally popular opinion was a relief of pressure on the Orthodox Church. The mouths of the High Church pulpiteers were encouraged to open as loud as possible. America's leading pulpiteer, Henry Ward Beecher, pastor of the Pilgrim Congregational Church in Brooklyn, denounced the strike in two sermons. Fruit punch and mince pies will be served in the interval of the Methodist Church performance. She broke off contact with her father, devastatingly losing her faith in both him and the Church. We do have a new development now in the situation at the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem. Currently 63 of the Grand Officers of the Orange Order are also Church of Ireland clergy. But this is just speculation and there may be many members of the Church who live devout lives. The Grand Inquisitor, who has essentially run the Church for the last few years, is now the public face. Church authorities decided to demolish the building because it was proving too costly to maintain. Whereas, in recent times, the diaconate was a stepping stone to priesthood, there is a long history of married deacons in the Church. Now, over 500 years later, the Ecumenical Patriarch of the whole Greek Church continues to be based in Istanbul. Visitation of Yorkshire records the coat of arms of Wodde in a north window of Almondbury Parish Church. For decades, its craven instinct for appeasement and its insane preoccupation with ecumenism has undermined the Church it is charged to defend. Detectives were tipped off and sent in two undercover officers posing as Church officials. There should never have been a car park in such a position of prominence as it is in Church Street. In effecting these controls, the Parish is making the point that the Church car park is private property and an asset belonging to the Church. My thinking on this curious dichotomous view of the Church can be found here. Show More Sentences Charlotte Church, with her perfect teeth and beautiful voice, has brought out the green-eyed monster in many of us. Church officials were appointed on a regional basis so as to bind a diffuse community. Church of Fools got off to a flying start on Tuesday May 11 th, until a computer crashed somewhere in York, England. Finally, in 1961, the couple moved to Antigonish, where Russell was posted by the United Church. The Church of Stop Shopping exists because consumerism has arguably become a religion itself. There is an identification of the church of Antioch with those liberal elements present in the contemporaneous Church of England. There are also plenty of priests who, themselves, want to see the bad elements within the Church excised. The issue has divided elements of the United Methodist Church, which sponsors more Scout troops than any other organization. The president and first lady attended St. John's Episcopal Church in Washington this morning. It is located in the diocese of Lucknow, one of 27 dioceses in the Church of North India. The Church will have to regain its doctrinal health once again before anything else. With good reason, they had come to believe that the path to freedom ran through the baptismal font of the Reformed Church. Before leaving the area, Church initiated a sweep of sensitive items and weapons to prevent capture by enemy forces. She had great dedication to the church and some years ago embroidered the altar cloths for Saleen Church. Rosemarie McIlwhan's Guides and Brownies meet in a Church of Scotland building in Glasgow's Hillhead. For centuries, despite forays into excesses and hypocrisy, the Church acted as a guardian of private and public morality. Two days after his arrival Wakefield held divine service on Church Hill. And viciously contemning the Church more often than not entails a disdainful sidelong glance at the benighted faithful who persist in allegiance to her. Next morning, on arriving at the corner of Church and Vesey Streets, I saw three pieces of equipment removing the sidewalk from the plaza area near the staircase. Cheap grace is the preaching of forgiveness without requiring repentance, baptism without Church discipline, Communion without confession, absolution without contrition. Show More Sentences It's even stranger when you consider the great cry for separation of Church and State whenever anyone wants to intrude the merest sniff of religion into politics. She would attend St Andrew's Church for morning and evening prayers. At a time when the Church was desperate to believe that Earth was the centre of the universe, pluralist de Fontanelle delighted in a contrary concept. Church elders speak with pride of the 403 toilets and, in particular, of their own invention, a machine capable of dispensing 40 cups of communion wine every two seconds. Castlecomer Basketball Club would like to thank all those who contributed to our flag day, both on the street and at the Church gates at the weekend. As experience outside St Mary's Church has repeatedly proved in the past, a good guard on point duty is better than any number of red, green and amber beacons. James remains as one of the most successful rulers of Scotland, extending the powers of the crown over the Church and to the Highlands and the Isles. Bow Church is already floodlit and hosts the occasional arty show. Attempts in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries to adopt the new calendar had broken on the rock of the Church of England, which denounced it as popish. The Church hopes that providing rent-free or subsidised facilities will cut the overheads of running a rural post office and persuade the Post Office to replace postmasters. Stone water fonts are to be placed at the doors in Midfield Church. The Act of Supremacy established the Church of England as the State religion. Those who rejected its outward forms and practices were fined, or worse. The magnificent Church of Our Lady of Victories was moved from its foundations and all smaller buildings in the church compound crumpled like a pack of cards. Two workmen building foundations for a meeting room extension at Skipton's Holy Trinity Church discovered a gold coin which experts believed dated from the Saxon period. A mendicant order of friars who preferred practical application of their beliefs to theological debate, the Franciscans served the Church as protectors of the Indians. The scheme would include ground floor shops, including a food store, on land fronting Bury New Road and Stanley Road, meaning Roma's and the Church pub would be demolished. For example, while acknowledging that Whitney wants us to worship religious monuments and funerary traditions, we may wonder which Church he is referring to. I entered the United Methodist Church on the far east side of Alexandria. Beside St. Mary's there is a short row of small, dainty cottages, administered by the Church, for the use of its employees and other deserving families. The profound relationship between the invisible and the visible elements of ecclesial communion is constitutive of the Church as the sacrament of salvation. Show More Sentences The Gospel writers wrote in the context of the evolving Church and sometimes skewed their portraits to match ecclesial interest rather than historical reality. His literary career, combined with his reputation for eccentricity, dandyism, and a love of dancing and theatre, prevented his preferment in the Church. The first tablet was unveiled in the Parish Church some months ago and is a memorial to the brave fellows who lost their lives in defence of their country's interests. There are many puritans in Lower Potawatomi Valley, who are possibly descendants of those who long ago opposed ceremonial worship and the prelacy of the Church of England. Sunday is observed as a day of rest for United Church members. The American Presbyterian Church recently approved gay marriages. And in particular, by engaging lay people as well as ordained ministers in the government of the Church, Presbyterianism prepared the people for participatory democracy. The mother of two was installed as the new dean of historic Salisbury Cathedral in Wiltshire at a ceremony attended by members of the Church of England hierarchy. Giovanni Boccaccio, the great 14th century Italian humanist writer offers us a humorous insight into the corruption and decadence of the Church of his day. The Bishop of Glasgow and Galloway has been voted in as the new Primus of the Scottish Episcopal Church by the Episcopal Synod earlier in the week. In the medieval times, most patronage came from the Church but the ruling classes, the kings, princes and nobles, made up a second group of patrons. Publican John Keating is redeveloping the deconsecrated St Mary's Church on Mary Street in Dublin 1, which is due to open as a bar and restaurant at the end of the summer. She was definite that no one from the Church had offered help. He was tried for heresy by the Free Church of Scotland and defrocked. Ten years after his consecration he was delated for heresy by an ecclesiastical court, and subsequently excommunicated from the Anglican Church altogether. James, who grew up in a house on Church Street, Bollington, set sail from Plymouth to Brisbane in search of a better life after hearing glowing reports of life Down Under. The walk takes 90 minutes and departs from St Nicholas' Church. Church had been pretty much a blur to her, she'd talked to the usual people listened to the sermon, sung the hymns, and read the psalms and prayers. Alan's concern was that as a Presbyterian clergyman he might not be permitted to preach in pulpits of the Church of England, but this was not a problem. Robert Stirling applied for his first patents for this engine and the economizer in 1816, only after a few months of getting nominated as a minister at the Church of Scotland. Show More Sentences Never mind that their own spiritual leader, Bartholomeus, Ecumenical Patriarch of the Eastern Orthodox Church, had chided them for opposing the Pope's pilgrimage. Within two years the band was back in the public eye as members played a fanfare from the top of Bretforton Church tower to mark the diamond jubilee of Queen Victoria. The Russian Orthodox Church had long forbidden the creation of sculpture in the round as contravening the biblical prohibition against graven images. The elders of Walton Evangelical Church led the induction service. As you know from the letters dimissory which were delivered to you a year ago this month, I am a priest in the Anglican Province of the Church of Rwanda. While some of these criticisms may be true for the most conservative elements of the Church, most of them have been invalid since the Council of Trent. The old gate of St. Pauls Church had a dint in it from a stone thrown during the fight, and this gate is still in the possession of a local farmer. The Second Lateran Council seems to have enacted the first written law making sacred orders a diriment impediment to marriage for the universal Church. A further reason is that the Church claims jurisdiction over such mixed marriages, institutes diriment impediments to them, and grants dispensations. He conducted the first Wesleyan Church service under a gum tree and was later instrumental in the building of the Richman's Creek Methodist Church. It is to be remembered, however, that the Church so restored was a disendowed and humbled Church, from which the State might be thought to have little to fear. The problem had to be approached from another side when it related to a Church disestablished and disendowed, and with no prospect of obtaining any endowment. It was not until 1870 when the Church of Ireland was finally disestablished that it had to review its assumptions about its natural place in Irish society. I am not advocating a complete break of the church from the constitution and disestablishment of the Church of England, just a reappraisal of all the roles within it. Later at 7.30 pm a ceremony of evening prayer was held in St. Micael and All Angels' Church in Abbeyleix, which was attended by a large gathering of local people. An Imber Day was also introduced so previous residents could return annually to tend graves, meet old friends and participate in Eucharist and evensong at St Giles' Church. By maintaining the practice of episcopacy, the post-Reformation Church of England drew its legitimacy from Medieval custom, not Biblical authority. English translations of the epitaphs on ancient tombstones of the Dutch and Portuguese in St. Francis Church at Fort Kochi will soon be displayed. He relied on the formula adopted by the Church two centuries before, the Easter shall fall on the first Sunday after the first full moon after the spring of the equinox. The pope excommunicated John and put England under a Church law that stated that no christening or marriage would be legal until the time the pope said that they would be. Show More Sentences He left for France and then Germany, where he was excommunicated by the Lutheran Church, and returned to Italy in the mistaken belief that it would be safe to do so. Because of its roots in the established Church of England, the Episcopal Church has long sought to play an establishmentarian role in the United States. The Virginia Synod is responsible for the congregations of the Lutheran Church. Luke's Church, built in the 17th century, is Virginia's oldest church building. Though Church doctrine increasingly purified Mary as the centuries passed, N-Town restages and foregrounds her scandalousness. Most Norwegians are registered at baptism as members of the Church of Norway which used to be the official state religion. A fine example, Urnes Stave Church in inner Sognefjord, is on UNESCO's World Heritage List. William also oversaw a purge of prelates from the Church, most notably Stigand, who was deposed from Canterbury. Other bequests included gifts to the Church and money to be distributed to the poor. Henry's desire to reform the relationship with the Church led to conflict with his former friend Thomas Becket, the Archbishop of Canterbury. When Philip besieged Aumale in Normandy, Richard grew tired of waiting and seized the manor, although the act was opposed by the Church. The role of the English Church had been a matter for great debate in the years prior to the 1215 charter. It began to develop early in the history of the Church, but is not mentioned in the scriptures. He created France's first standing army since Roman times, and limited papal power in the Gallican Church by the Pragmatic Sanction of Bourges. The bodies of the fallen were brought to St James Church at Dadlington for burial. Early accounts suggest that this was in the major Lancastrian collegiate foundation, the Church of the Annunciation of Our Lady of the Newarke. In 1485, following his death in battle against Henry Tudor at Bosworth Field, Richard III's body was buried in Greyfriars Church in Leicester. Holding both Church and Empire at bay, these city republics were devoted to notions of liberty. Much, if not most, of the new art was commissioned by or in dedication to the Church. Churchmen such as Erasmus and Luther proposed reform to the Church, often based on humanist textual criticism of the New Testament. Show More Sentences A factor that promoted the spread of secularism was the inability of the Church to offer assistance against the Black Death. Besides asserting the sovereign's supremacy over the Church of England, he greatly expanded royal power during his reign. This was approved by the Pope, unaware of the King's nascent plans for the Church. Royal Supremacy is specifically used to describe the legal sovereignty of the civil laws over the laws of the Church in England. Thus, it was through the Second Act of Supremacy that Elizabeth I officially established the now reformed Church of England. The Church of England is also the mother church of the international Anglican Communion. Since the English Reformation, the Church of England has used a liturgy in English. The General Synod of the Church of England is the legislative body for the church and comprises bishops, other clergy and laity. This event is known as the Gregorian mission and is the date the Church of England generally marks as the beginning of its formal history. The Church of England has been in continuous existence since the days of St Augustine, with the Archbishop of Canterbury as its episcopal head. With the Restoration of Charles II, Parliament restored the Church of England to a form not far removed from the Elizabethan version. In 2015 the Church of England admitted that it was embarrassed to be paying staff under the living wage. The Church of England had previously campaigned for all employers to pay this minimum amount. Unlike other traditions, the Church of England has no single theologian that it can look to as a founder. There are differences of opinion within the Church of England over the necessity of episcopacy. The Church of England's official book of liturgy as established in English Law is the Book of Common Prayer. The use of hymns and music in the Church of England has changed dramatically over the centuries. In December 2014, Libby Lane was announced as the first woman to become a bishop in the Church of England. In July 2015, Rachel Treweek was the first woman to become a diocesan bishop in the Church of England when she became the Bishop of Gloucester. The Church of England set up the Church Urban Fund in the 1980s to tackle poverty and deprivation. Show More Sentences Many prominent people in the Church of England have spoken out against poverty and welfare cuts in the United Kingdom. The Church of England has 18,000 active ordained clergy and 10,000 licensed lay ministers. The British monarch has the constitutional title of Supreme Governor of the Church of England. Another assembly is the Convocation of the English Clergy, which is older than the General Synod and its predecessor the Church Assembly. Additionally, there are Diocesan Synods and deanery synods, which are the governing bodies of the divisions of the Church. Of the 42 diocesan archbishops and bishops in the Church of England, 26 are permitted to sit in the House of Lords. In Guernsey the Church of England is the Established Church, although the Dean of Guernsey is not a member of the States of Guernsey. Although an established church, the Church of England does not receive any direct government support. Until the break with Rome, it was the Pope and general councils of the Church that decided doctrine. Church law was governed by the code of canon law with final jurisdiction in Rome. Church taxes were paid straight to Rome, and the Pope had the final word in the appointment of bishops. Under Mary, the whole process was reversed and the Church of England was again placed under papal jurisdiction. Finally, on 10 May, the King demanded of Convocation that the Church renounce all authority to make laws. The other group not to be tolerated was people who wanted reform to go much further, and who finally gave up on the Church of England. At the end of Elizabeth's reign, the Church of England was firmly in place, but held the seeds of future conflict. It allowed ministers to marry, banned images from churches, and confirmed Elizabeth as Supreme Governor of the Church of England. Supreme Governor was a suitably equivocal title that made Elizabeth head of the Church without ever saying she was. This third party was to become the core of the restored Church of England, but at the price for further division. This Elizabethan Religious Settlement was to evolve into the Church of England. The word Anglican originates in ecclesia anglicana, a medieval Latin phrase dating to at least 1246 that means the English Church. Find more words! 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