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Anglican Church
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Cultural formation | Penelope Mortimer | Welsh by birth (although she lived her adult life in England and the USA), she was, as a clergyman's daughter, brought up in the Church of England
. Her father's Communist affiliation seems not to... |
Cultural formation | Isabella Bird | To dedicate herself to her medical missionary work, she had herself baptized in a ceremony of total immersion. She did not, however, leave the AnglicanChurch
for the Baptist church. |
Cultural formation | Susan Smythies | SS
was an Englishwoman born into a family in which a high proportion of the men became clergymen in the Church ofEngland
. “Genealogical Notes to the Pedigree of the Smythies Family”. Miscellanea Genealogica et Heraldica, Vol. 4: 4 , pp. 276 - 86, 306. 315,317 |
Cultural formation | Marianne Chambers | |
Cultural formation | Jane Williams | Her writings evince considerable pride in being Welsh as well as a certain chauvinism with respect to the English. Though not a native speaker, she learned Welsh while still young. She had prominent Nonconformist
ancestors... |
Cultural formation | Sophia Jex-Blake | Both of SJB
's parents descended from well-established Norfolk families, presumably white, and belonged to the Anglican Church
. Sophia and her siblings were denied many social indulgences in favour of the work expected of... |
Cultural formation | Rose Macaulay | Her brother's death impelled her to search in Anglican
ritual, liturgy, and sacraments for a faith to sustain her. |
Cultural formation | Elizabeth Ashbridge | She grew up in a pious Anglican
household, and confirmed into the Church at thirteen. Ashbridge, Elizabeth, and Arthur Charles Curtis. Quaker Grey. Astolat Press. 28 |
Cultural formation | Elizabeth Strickland | Her High Anglican
family was well-positioned in the English middle class at the time of her birth, but although her father had aspirations to rise higher, the opposite happened. They became more and more short... |
Cultural formation | Queen Elizabeth I | Brought up both by her teachers and by Katherine Parr
in evangelical Protestantism, she developed into a pragmatic Anglican
, probably both by conviction and by informed political choice. She exercised her diplomatic skills to... |
Cultural formation | Laurence Hope | Adela Cory's English parents were living in India at the time of her birth, as did many Britons throughout the period of British rule over the sub-continent. Her mother's family heritage was Irish. Adela was... |
Cultural formation | Annie Keary | Having found she could live with Broad Church
theology as to the issue of damnation, she later encountered further difficulties over new scientific theories. These threatened her intellectual hold on religion, though her sister insists... |
Cultural formation | Mary Masters | |
Cultural formation | Sarah Pearson | She belonged to the (presumably white) English, Anglican
, middling ranks. The idea that she was a servant and a Baptist has arisen from confusion with Susanna (Flinders) Pearson. Basker, James G., editor. Amazing Grace. Yale University Press. 412 |
Cultural formation | Louisa Baldwin | The family's narrow social life revolved around the Methodist society. Taylor, Ina. Victorian Sisters. Adler and Adler. 20 Middlemas, Keith, and John Barnes. Baldwin: A Biography. Weidenfeld and Nicholson. 7-8 |
Timeline
23 December 1919: The Enabling Act was given Royal Assent as...
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23 December 1919
The Enabling Act was given Royal Assent as the Church of England Assembly (Powers) Act: this gave the Church of England
greater control over its own affairs, thereby reducing the power of the institutional connection...
23 December 1919: The Enabling Act was given Royal Assent as...
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23 December 1919
The Enabling Act was given Royal Assent as the Church of England Assembly (Powers) Act: this gave the Church of England
greater control over its own affairs, thereby reducing the power of the institutional connection...
31 March 1920: The Welsh Disestablishment Bill, which disestablished...
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31 March 1920
The Welsh Disestablishment Bill, which disestablished the Anglican Church
in Wales, came into effect.
1921: Lord Dawson of Penn, the King's physician,...
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1921
Lord Dawson of Penn
, the King's physician, advocated birth control on medical, social and especially personal grounds in his address to a Church of England
congress in Birmingham.
Brookes, Barbara. Abortion in England: 1900-1967. Croom Helm.
64
15 June 1928: A new Book of Common Prayer, on which the...
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15 June 1928
A new Book of Common Prayer, on which the Church of England
had been working for years and which among other details deleted the word obey from women's marriage vows, was rejected by Parliament
.
October 1928: The Church Militant, a feminist Anglican...
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October 1928
1936: The Church of England Archbishops' Commission...
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1936
The Church of EnglandArchbishops' Commission on Women and the Ministry
drew its conclusions and published its report.
After June 1936: Under the Tithe Act, the British government...
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After June 1936
Under the Tithe Act, the British government paid the Church of England
something over seventy-two million pounds in lieu of the tithes it would have received over the next sixty years. But payment of tithes...
1942: The Anglican Church relaxed its expectation...
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1942
The Anglican Church
relaxed its expectation that women should invariably wear hats in church.
1944: The Bishop of Hong Kong, Dr R. V. Hall, ordained...
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1944
The Bishop of Hong Kong, Dr R. V. Hall
, ordained the first Anglican woman priest, Lei Tim Oi
. Hall's church colleagues, however, asked her to resign, and she did so in 1946.
1944: Deaconess Florence Li Tim Oi was ordained...
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1944
Deaconess Florence Li Tim Oi
was ordained by Bishop R. O. Hall
as the first woman Anglican
minister in the world.
1958: The Lambeth Conference of bishops from the...
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1958
The Lambeth Conference
of bishops from the Church of England
gave its seal of approval to the practice of birth control.
2 December 1960: Pope John XXIII met Dr Fisher, Archibishop...
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2 December 1960
11 October 1962: Pope John XXIII convened the Second Vatican...
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11 October 1962
After 5 March 1971: Following an important meeting of the Anglican...
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After 5 March 1971
Following an important meeting of the Anglican Consultative Council at Limuru in Kenya, the bishop of Hong Kong and Macao (the diocese in which Florence Li
was in 1944 ordained the world's first female...
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