Anglican
/ˈaŋɡlɪk(ə)n
/adjective
Relating to or denoting the Church of England or any Church in communion with it.It is no longer a question of whether communion among the Anglican churches will be broken....
- There were speakers from the Catholic, Presbyterian, Baptist and Anglican churches.
- However, such preaching was not well received by most Anglican clergy, and churches began to be barred to him.
noun
A member of any of the Anglican Churches.Or is there some uniquely superior way in which this is thought to be more true for Anglicans than for other churches?...
- Second, what is the role of the episcopacy in our vocation as Anglicans for the larger Church?
- Baptists did not arrive as missionaries as had Anglicans, Methodists, and Roman Catholics.
Origin
Early 17th century: from medieval Latin Anglicanus (its adoption suggested by Anglicana ecclesia 'the English church' in the Magna Carta), from Latin Anglicus, from Angli (see Angle).