Anglican Church

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Cultural formation Dorothy Leigh
DL came from the English gentry class. She was anti-Catholic, leaning towards the Puritan arm of the Anglican church.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Cultural formation Charlotte Barnard
CB grew up as an Englishupper-class child, attending the local Anglican Church . Her family had many servants, including a coachman, a housekeeper, two housemaids, a nurse and a cook. They also owned several properties...
Cultural formation Emily Davies
The household was quite evangelical , owing to the influence of Emily's father, but she herself leaned in adulthood towards the Christian socialism of F. D. Maurice .
Caine, Barbara. Victorian Feminists. Oxford University Press, 1992.
67-8
Stephen, Barbara. Emily Davies and Girton College. Constable, 1927.
19, 21, 27
She found in...
Cultural formation Penelope Fitzgerald
PF was born into an exceptionally high-achieving family within the English professional class which was in the process of shifting from being centred on the Church of England to combining religion as professional interest with...
Cultural formation William Morris
He came from a white, English, and Anglican family. His father was a successful financier who brought the family up in great comfort at their Essex mansion. The patriarch's death in 1847 left the Morris...
Cultural formation Jane Francesca Lady Wilde
Though confirmed into the Church of Ireland (that is, in the Anglican faith) she sometimes thought (for partly political reasons) of converting to Roman Catholicism . She arranged a second, Catholic christening for her sons.
Ellmann, Richard. Oscar Wilde. Knopf, 1988.
6, 19
Cultural formation Susan Tweedsmuir
Her immediate, nuclear family was an enclave of agnosticism while her extended family was unanimously Anglican —though not uniformly, since it was sharply divided between High and Low Church. Her memoirs emphasise the moral strength...
Cultural formation C. E. Plumptre
CEP abandoned the Anglican ism of her family and had an early interest in Pantheism, but ultimately she became an agnostic.
Gould, Frederick James. Chats with Pioneers of Modern Thought. Watts, 1898.
30
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
, 1912, pp. 276 - 86, 306.
315,317
Cultural formation Anna Maria Hall
A devout Christian , AMH was also a firm believer in the phenomenon of spiritualism.
Schlueter, Paul, and June Schlueter, editors. An Encyclopedia of British Women Writers. Garland, 1988.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2025, 22 vols. plus supplements.
Hall, Samuel Carter. Retrospect of a Long Life: From 1815 to 1883. D. Appleton, 1883.
579
Cultural formation Elizabeth Rigby
ER was born to presumably white, English, middle-class parents. She was a practising Anglican and leaned towards High Church doctrine.
Lochhead, Marion C. Elizabeth Rigby, Lady Eastlake. John Murray, 1961.
9, 62
She became a staunch Tory who frequently published articles in the Conservative Quarterly Review.
Lochhead, Marion C. Elizabeth Rigby, Lady Eastlake. John Murray, 1961.
9
Cultural formation Lady Jane Lumley
By birth and marriage LJL belonged to the English nobility. Her father was sharply attentive to issues of rank. LJL was born at almost the same time as the Church of England , and her...
Cultural formation Isabella Bird
IB came from an English, professional, upper-middle-class family background, strongly religious in the Evangelical wing of the Church ofEngland . She grew up in an intellectually stimulating and encouraging environment.
Checkland, Olive. Isabella Bird and ’A Woman’s Right to Do What She Can Do Well’. Scottish Cultural Press, 1996.
3-6
Stoddart, Anna M. The Life of Isabella Bird (Mrs. Bishop). John Murray, 1906.
1
Brothers, Barbara, and Julia Gergits, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 166. Gale Research, 1996.
166:30
Cultural formation Mary Lady Champion de Crespigny
She evidently sprang from the English gentry class within which she also married. Yet her origins and connections are obscure, whereas her husband's family (French Huguenots in origin) was conspicuously well-connected. She was presumably white....
Cultural formation John Donne
JD was brought up in the old religion, as a Roman Catholic . He was probably already deep in theological study, undertaken for his own satisfaction, when during the year that he turned twenty-one his...

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.
Stott, Mary. “Ordination of Women: Flickering flame passed to new generation”. Times, 24 Sept. 1981, p. 12.
12
Furlong, Monica. Feminine in the Church. SPCK, 1984.
4

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.
Stott, Mary. “Ordination of Women: Flickering flame passed to new generation”. Times, 24 Sept. 1981, p. 12.
12
Furlong, Monica. Feminine in the Church. SPCK, 1984.
4

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.
Furlong, Monica. “The St Hilda Community—narrative of a group which supports female priests”. The Ecumenical Review, Vol.
53
, No. 1, Jan. 2001, pp. 82-5.

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 .
Furlong, Monica. “The St Hilda Community—narrative of a group which supports female priests”. The Ecumenical Review, Vol.
53
, No. 1, Jan. 2001, pp. 82-5.

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.
Lively, Penelope. A House Unlocked. Penguin, 2002.
61-2

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.
Williams, Neville et al. Chronology of the 20th Century. Helicon, 1996.
511, 517

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.
“1994: Duchess of Kent joins Catholic church”. BBC News: On This Day, 14 Jan. 1994.

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.
Williams, Neville et al. Chronology of the 20th Century. Helicon, 1996.
525

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.
Bates, Stephen. “Into the breach”. The Guardian, 24 June 2006, p. 29.
29

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.
“News”. BBC Radio Four.

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, 30 Nov. 2012, 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, 14 July 2014.

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