FREE CHURCH OF ENGLAND

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FREE CHURCH OF ENGLAND , a

Protestant

PROTESTANT

episcopal church " essentially one with the established church of England, but free to go into any parish, to use a revised edition of the Book of Common

Prayer

, to associate the laity with the clergy in the government and

work

WORK

of the church, and to hold communion with Christians of other denominations." It was founded in 1844
in opposition to the Tractarian

movement

MOVEMENT

, and embodies the distinctively evangelical elements of the Reformation. It pre-serves and maintains to the

letter

LETTER (through Fr. lettre from Lat. littera or litera, letter of the
alphabet
- ALPHABET (see also WRITING)
; the origin of the Latin word is obscure; it has probably no connexion with the root of linere, to smear, i.e. with wax, for an inscription with a stilus)

all that is

Protestant

PROTESTANT

and evangelical in the

liturgy

LITURGY (Low Lat. liturgia; Gr. X€Zros, public, and Epyov,
work
- WORK
; )Aetrovpy6s, a public servant)

and services of the Anglican church, while its free constitution and revised formularies meet the needs of members of that communion who resent sacerdotal and ritualistic tendencies. There are two dioceses (northern and southern) each with a

bishop

, about 30 churches and ministers, and about 1300 members.

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