Anglican Church

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Cultural formation Agatha Christie
AC was an upper-middle-class Englishwoman whose father was American. She was a practising Anglican , although after her divorce she no longer took Communion.
Morgan, Janet. Agatha Christie: A Biography. Collins, http://Rutherford HSS.
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Cultural formation Eliza Dunlop
She came from an Anglo-Irish, professional family background, was presumably white (a key factor in her experience after she arrived in Australia), and belonged to the Anglican church. Though she spent most of her adult...
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 Margaret Roberts
She grew up as a member of the Church of England .
Cultural formation Julia Stretton
She was born into the English middle class, and became a sincere and earnest Anglican . She grew up in an industrial, working-class area, in which her family was clearly marked out as superior to...
Cultural formation W. H. Auden
Around the same time he took up again the Anglicanism of his childhood, this time in the form of the USEpiscopalian church. In this he was influenced at the time by such socially-conscious Christian...
Cultural formation Margaret Holford
Her parents belonged securely to the minor English gentry; her husband followed a profession as a clergyman of the Church of England , to which she presumably belonged.
Cultural formation Anne Audland
Her family is called respectable, which may have implied membership of the middling ranks, and she was baptised into the Anglican church.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Cultural formation Sheila Kaye-Smith
From childhood SKS was fervently religious. Her parents were Anglicans (though her mother had been brought up a Presbyterian ).
Walker, Dorothea. Sheila Kaye-Smith. Twayne.
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She was attracted to the idea of self-sacrifice, though not to the obedience and...
Cultural formation Ngaio Marsh
Though her father was a truculent rationalist and her mother was elusive and vague about her religious beliefs, NM as a schoolgirl was roused to a fervour of devotion by the aesthetic, expressive rituals and...
Cultural formation Anne Conway
AC belonged by birth and marriage to the English upper classes, though many of her friends and associates came from signficantly lower down the social scale. Her rationalism and quietism made her an eccentric Anglican
Cultural formation Margiad Evans
ME wrote that she hated many of the forms of Christianity and other religions . . . . because of the sacrifice at the centre of them—the sacrificial blood. This hatred was connected with her...
Cultural formation Walter Pater
The Paters were Anglican . WP later struggled with his religious faith, which had become quite strong during his youth, and eventually broke away from the Christian tradition. During his time at Oxford, he was...
Cultural formation Ann Thicknesse
She was a proudly middle-class Englishwoman, whose contact with the upper classes and subsequent travel abroad only reinforced her conviction of the superiority of her own rank and nationality. She was apparently a member of...
Cultural formation Emily Gerard
She was born into the Scottish gentry, and her family originally belonged to the Scottish Episcopalian Church , which is to say they were Anglican. Following her mother's conversion to Roman Catholicism , EG and...

Timeline

8 November 1978: The General Synod of the Church of England...

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8 November 1978

The General Synod of the Church of England voted against the ordination of women, despite support for it from most bishops and lay members (not priests), and the recommendation of the Archbishop of Canterbury.

8 November 1978: The General Synod of the Church of England...

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8 November 1978

The General Synod of the Church of England voted against the ordination of women, despite support for it from most bishops and lay members (not priests), and the recommendation of the Archbishop of Canterbury.

1986: Those in the Anglican mother-church who opposed...

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1986

Those in the Anglican mother-church who opposed the ordination of women secured a vote forbidding ordained women from other parts of the Anglican Communion from celebrating the Eucharist in Britain.

February 1987: The St Hilda Community, activists for Anglican...

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February 1987

The St Hilda Community , activists for Anglican women's ordination, held its first Eucharist service in the student chapel of Queen Mary College , London, celebrated by an ordained American, Suzanne Fageol .

1990: The Church of England possessed about 1,630...

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1990

The Church of England possessed about 1,630 officially redundant churches, or a tenth of the total in use; a quarter of these had been declared superfluous since 1958.

11 November 1992: The General Synod of the Church of England...

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11 November 1992

The General Synod of the Church of England voted to allow women priests; this was the culmination of a long campaign for the ordination of women.

14 January 1994: Katharine, Duchess of Kent, converted to...

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14 January 1994

Katharine, Duchess of Kent , converted to Catholicism , becoming the first Roman Catholic member of the British Royal Family in more than 300 years.

12 March 1994: The first women priests in the Church of...

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12 March 1994

The first women priests in the Church of England were ordained in Bristol.

18 June 2006: Katharine Jefferts Schori, Bishop of Nevada,...

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18 June 2006

Katharine Jefferts Schori , Bishop of Nevada, became arguably . . . the highest-ranking woman in Episcopal history when she was chosen presiding bishop of the Episcopal church in America.

21 April 2011: Hundreds of Anglicans converted to the Roman...

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21 April 2011

Hundreds of Anglicans converted to the Roman Catholic Church , with the blessing of Pope Benedict XVI, because they were not prepared to countenance the consecration of women bishops.

November 2012: The Church of England caused national consternation...

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November 2012

The Church of England caused national consternation when its Synod narrowly voted down the opening of its episcopate in Britain to its first women bishops.
Wintour, Patrick, and Lizzy Davies. “Bishop vote sets state against church”. Guardian Weekly, p. 16.

14 July 2014: Reversing a decision of November 2012, the...

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14 July 2014

Reversing a decision of November 2012, the Synod of the Church of England voted to allow women to be consecrated as bishops. Justin Welby , Archbishop of Canterbury, expressed delight at the decision.
Castle, Stephen. “Church of England Votes to Accept Women as Bishops”. The New York Times.

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