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Definition of Church of England

1. Noun. 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.

Definition of Church of England

1. Proper noun. The established Christian Church in England, and the mother church of the Anglican Community. Abbreviated as C of E. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Church Of England

Literary usage of Church of England

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1911)
"... also, for the great reformation that issued in the commonwealth under Cromwell and the prevalence of Puritanism in the Church of England. ..."

2. The History of England from the Accession of James II by Thomas Babington Macaulay Macaulay (1907)
"Bishop Parkhurst uttered a fervent prayer that the Church of England would propose to herself the Church of Zurich as the absolute pattern of a Christian ..."

3. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"This enacts that the same ornaments shall be retained "as was in this Church of England, by authority of Parliament, in the second year of King Edward VI". ..."

4. The History of England: From the Invasion of Julius Cæsar, to the Revolution by David Hume (1810)
"... sincere and zealous member of the church of England, . and trusted that she would support the ecclesiastical estab- reasons . . ti-i.ii • Respective ..."

5. The Harvard Classics by Charles William Eliot (1910)
"LETTER V ON THE Church of England ENGLAND is properly the country of ... called the Church of England, or simply the Church, by way of eminence. ..."

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