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The church ended up excommunicating Elizabeth I in 1570 in response to the 1558 act of settlement. The Archbishop of Canterbury functions as the spiritual head of the communion. The Primates' Meeting is the most recent manifestation of international consultation.

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Anglican Church

The church ended up excommunicating Elizabeth I in 1570 in response to the 1558 act of settlement. The Archbishop of Canterbury functions as the spiritual head of the communion. The Primates' Meeting is the most recent manifestation of international consultation.

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Anglican Church

• The Anglican Church was created by Elizabeth I.


• Elizabeth I merged a centralized Episcopal system
that she firmly controlled with broadly defined
Protestant doctrine and traditional catholic ritual.
• Elizabeth hoped to avoid both Catholic and
Protestant extremism by pursuing a “middle way.”
• Her first Archbishop of Canterbury was Matthew
Parker and he agreed with Elizabeth’s ideals.
– At some times he was even considered to be the
representative of Elizabeth’s ideals.
• There are only member churches of the
present Anglican Communion existing by
the mid-18th century.
– These churches consisted of the Church of
England, its closely-linked sister church, the
Church of Ireland (which also separated from
Roman Catholicism under Henry VIII), and the
Scottish Episopal Church which for parts of the
17th and 18th centuries was partially
underground
• The church ended up • The Church of
excommunicating England has always
Elizabeth I in 1570 in thought of itself not as
response to the 1558 a new foundation but
rather as a reformed
Act of Settlement. continuation of the
ancient "English
Church" and a
reassertion of that
church's rights.
• The Archbishop of Canterbury's role is
strictly symbolic and unifying; and the
Communion's three international bodies are
consultative and collaborative.
• Their resolutions have no legal effect on the
independent provinces of the Communion.
• Taken together, however, the four do
function as "instruments of communion",
since all churches of the communion
participate in them.
1. The Archbishop of Canterbury functions as the
spiritual head of the Communion. He is the
focus of unity, since no church claims
membership in the Communion without being in
communion with him.
2. The Lambeth Conference (first held in 1867) is
the oldest international consultation. It is a
forum for bishops of the Communion to
reinforce unity and collegiality through
manifesting the episcopate, to discuss matters of
mutual concern, and to pass resolutions intended
to act as guideposts. It is held roughly every ten
years and invitation is by the Archbishop of
Canterbury.
1. The Primates’ Meeting (first met in 1979) is the
most recent manifestation of international
consultation and deliberation, having been first
convened by Archbishop Donald Coggan as a
forum for "leisurely thought, prayer and deep
consultation."
2. The Anglican Consultative Council (first met in
1971) was created by a 1968 Lambeth
Conference resolution, and meets usually at
three year intervals. The council consists of
representative bishops, clergy, and laity chosen
by the thirty-eight provinces. The body has a
permanent secretariat, the Anglican Communion
Office, of which the Archbishop of Canterbury
is president.
John Knox
• Scottish Reformer
• Publicly voiced his opinion against the
Queen’s private mass and catholic practices.
– Scottish Law made this a capital offence for
everyone but him
• He also won support in his role as watchdog
from Elizabeth.
• He also wrote First
Blast of the Trumpet
against the Terrible
Regiment of Women,
to try to provoke a
revolt against Mary
Tudor, but he
published when
Elizabeth Ascended to
the thrown.

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