(a.) English; of or pertaining to England or the English nation; especially, pertaining to, or connected with, the established church of England; as, the Anglican church, doctrine, orders, ritual, etc.
(a.) Pertaining to, characteristic of, or held by, the high church party of the Church of England.
(n.) A member of the Church of England.
(n.) In a restricted sense, a member of the High Church party, or of the more advanced ritualistic section, in the Church of England.
Example Sentences:
(1) McDaniel supported his 2003 election as bishop of New Hampshire, which, caused conservative Episcopalians in the US to break away and was the subject of intense debate in the worldwide Anglican church.
(2) The Rt Rev Stephen Lowe, the Bishop of Hulme, who speaks for the Anglican church on urban life and faith, is less sanguine.
(3) He helped her cope when her mother and then her father, who had been an Anglican cleric, died in quick succession in 1981.
(4) It quickly became evident that there was an opportunity to take the idea beyond a one-off event between Anglicans and Catholics and reach out to other religions, like the Muslim community.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest The St Peter’s XI practise under the Vatican flag.
(5) Archbishop Eliud Wabukala of Kenya said the “truth [of the Gospel] continues to be called into question in the Anglican communion” and warned against “the global ambitions of a secular culture”.
(6) He is an Anglican bishop who has shown his moral strength to the world better than anybody.
(7) Sixteen Anglican chaplains are understood to be spending Remembrance Sunday on active service in Helmand, Afghanistan.
(8) The Anglican communion was given substance only by the British empire and next week’s meeting will be one of the final moments in the dismantling of the empire, or of the further process of forgetting that it ever mattered.
(9) She said therapies endorsed by Anglican Mainstream and Core Issues were not coercive and were appropriate for people who wanted to change their sexual attractions, for example if they were married and worried about the impact of a "gay lifestyle" on their children.
(10) I wish him - with Caroline and the family - every blessing, and hope that the church of England and the Anglican communion will share my pleasure at this appointment and support him with prayer and love."
(11) During his time at Westcott House theological college in Cambridge, he turned away from the theology of the faculty and from the more catholic Anglicanism of Sir Edwin Hoskyns and later Michael Ramsey.
(12) On the other hand, there is no doubt that the schism in the Anglican Communion would have happened much more slowly and perhaps not at all without the help of the internet.
(13) About 1.6 million Canadians identify themselves as Anglican, according to Statistics Canada.
(14) Over the past year, facilitated by the steering group of the Anglican Communion Environmental Network we were invited through email, personal study, and virtual conferencing, to begin considering how we might live out, with urgency and in hope, the Fifth Mark of Mission “to strive to safeguard the integrity of creation and sustain and renew the life of the earth.” Our reflections entered a new depth when, in February 2015, ACEN chair Archbishop Thabo Makgoba graciously hosted a face to face meeting in South Africa.
(15) Williams's departure comes after a turbulent decade in which he has fought to maintain unity within the Anglican communion amid rows over Church teaching on homosexuality and gay marriage.
(16) Jayne Ozanne, a prominent campaigner for LGBT equality within the Anglican church, said: “Jeffrey is already a bishop in many of our eyes – he has been the ‘chief pastor’ to those of us who have felt discriminated against and vilified for the sake of our sexuality.
(17) Although South Africa legalised same-sex marriage in 2006, the Anglican church in the country teaches that marriage is a union of a man and woman.
(18) However, Thabo Makgoba, the archbishop of Cape Town, has said: “We overcame deep differences over the imposition of sanctions against apartheid and over the ordination of women, and we can do the same over human sexuality.” The global Anglican communion has threatened to split over the issue.
(19) Polling shows that a great majority of the Anglican laity are in favour of Lord Falconer's assisted dying bill, and even some of the bishops I have spoken to here, although they are bitter about what they feel is the unfairness of the argument, are resigned to losing in the long term.
(20) Even among Muslims and Baptists, there are majorities for this kind of live-and-let-live liberalism – certainly among Catholics (85%) and Anglicans (92%); but among nones it is absolute.
Episcopalian
Definition:
(a.) Pertaining to bishops, or government by bishops; episcopal; specifically, of or relating to the Protestant Episcopal Church.
(n.) One who belongs to an episcopal church, or adheres to the episcopal form of church government and discipline; a churchman; specifically, in the United States, a member of the Protestant Episcopal Church.
Example Sentences:
(1) McDaniel supported his 2003 election as bishop of New Hampshire, which, caused conservative Episcopalians in the US to break away and was the subject of intense debate in the worldwide Anglican church.
(2) The Episcopalian church will host a webcast on 24 March to kick off a month-long action campaign designed to encourage church members to reduce their own carbon footprints and lobby government and international corporations to fight climate change.
(3) Robinson was not born Episcopalian, and everything in his background legislated against what he has since become.
(4) In an atmosphere where the archbishop of Uganda can describe the Episcopalian decision as "a form of neocolonialism," separating doctrinal from cultural prejudices becomes a remarkably tricky task.
(5) I really hope to motivate average Episcopalians to see the severity of this issue, the morality of this issue,” she said.
(6) Katharine Jefferts Schori “Episcopalians understand the life of the mind is a gift of God and to deny the best of current knowledge is not using the gifts God has given you,” she said.
(7) It is true that all national churches in the communion are autonomous, and thus the Episcopalians were perfectly within their rights to proceed unilaterally, but could it perhaps have been done more carefully?
(8) Williams, for instance, seems to want to take it all slower, and thus have a greater chance of bringing more of the communion round to the Episcopalian point of view.
(9) So by the time he arrived at the University of the South in Sewanee, Tennessee, he was ready to be an Episcopalian, which, doctrinally at least, was more forgiving and inclusive (socially it tended to be the religion of Wasp landowners: eight of the first 14 presidents were Episcopalian; George Bush was an Episcopalian before he stopped drinking and became a Methodist).
(10) Part of Williams's strategy was to require a general moratorium on the blessing of same-sex partnerships and the election of clergy in gay relationships to bishoprics until a general consensus could be thrashed out; in July, at their triennial general convention in Anaheim, California, the Episcopalians pointedly removed themselves from it.
(11) While the details of our situation will remain appropriately private, I am seeking to be as open and honest in the midst of this decision as I have been in other dramatic moments of my life – coming out in 1986, falling in love, and accepting the challenge of becoming Christendom’s first openly gay priest to be elected a bishop in the historic succession of bishops stretching back to the apostles.” He added: “It is at least a small comfort to me, as a gay rights and marriage equality advocate, to know that like any marriage, gay and lesbian couples are subject to the same complications and hardships that afflict marriages between heterosexual couples.” Jim Naughton, an advocate for gay rights and co-founder of Canticle Communications, told the Associated Press the "strength, grace and generosity" shown by Robinson and Andrew would “always be a source of inspiration" for Episcopalians and Anglicans seeking acceptance of gay relationships.