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Anglicanism

Christian tradition developing out of the practices, liturgy and identity of the Church of England

34 dated entries naming Anglicanism, drawn from 31 separate years between 1553 CE and 2023 CE. Nothing here is written by us: each line is the sentence a Wikipedia year article used, and the link beside it opens the exact revision.

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16th century

  • 1553September – Anglican bishops in England are arrested, and Roman Catholic bishops are restored.source
  • 1581January 4 – James Ussher, Anglican Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of All Ireland, published the Ussher chronology purporting to time and date creation (died 1656).source

17th century

  • 1604January 14 – The Hampton Court Conference is held between James I of England, the Anglican bishops and representatives of the Puritans. Work begins on the Authorized King James Version of the Bible and revision of the Book of Common Prayer.source
  • 1606Anglican churchman William Bedell translates the Book of Common Prayer into Irish.source
  • 1608November 20 – Sir Thomas Gates, Governor of the London Company's colony at Jamestown, Virginia, is ordered by the Board of Directors to forcibly convert the native Indians in the area to Christianity as Anglicans.source
  • 1616December 22 – An Indian youth (called one of "the first fruits of India") is baptized with the name "Peter" in London at the St. Dionis Backchurch, in a ceremony attended by the Lord Mayor, the Privy Council, city aldermen, and officials of the Honourable East India Company. Peter thus becomes the first convert to the Anglican Church in India. He returns to India as a missionary, schooled in English and Latin.source
  • 1617Hezekiah Holland ('Anglo-Hibernus'), Anglican clergyman (died after 1660)source
  • 1630June 4 – Scottish-born Presbyterian (and former physician) Alexander Leighton is brought before Archbishop William Laud's Star Chamber court in London for publishing the seditious pamphlet An Appeale to the Parliament, or, Sions Plea Against the Prelacy, an attack on Anglican bishops (printed in the Netherlands, 1628). He is sentenced to be pilloried and whipped, have his ears cropped, one side of his nose slit, and his face branded with "SS" (for "sower of sedition"), to be imprisoned, and be degraded from holy orders.source
  • 1633St Columb's Cathedral, Derry, Ireland, the first post-Reformation Anglican cathedral built in the British Isles and the first Protestant cathedral built in Europe, is completed.source
  • 1633St Columb's Cathedral, Derry is completed; the first post-Reformation Anglican cathedral built in the British Isles and the first Protestant cathedral built in Europe.source
  • 1633June 18 – Charles I is crowned King of Scots at St Giles' Cathedral, Edinburgh, according to Anglican rite in his first visit to Scotland since early childhood, although he has been Scottish monarch since 1625.source
  • 1647Anglican professors are dismissed from the University of Oxford.source
  • 165524 November – Anglican services prohibited by Cromwell.source
  • 166221 May – Catherine of Braganza marries Charles II of England at Portsmouth in both a secret Catholic and a public Anglican ceremony the day after they first meet.source
  • 1688May 4 – King James II of England orders his Declaration of Indulgence, suspending penal laws against Catholics, to be read from every Anglican pulpit in England. The Church of England and its staunchest supporters, the peers and gentry, are outraged; on June 8 the Archbishop of Canterbury, William Sancroft, is imprisoned in the Tower of London for refusing to proclaim it.source

18th century

  • 1778April 12 – John Strachan, first Anglican Bishop of Toronto, Born in Aberdeen, Scotland (d.1867)source

19th century

  • 1815Construction of St. Thomas' Church, the first Anglican church in Sri Lanka, commences in Kotahena, Colombo.source
  • 181830 May – Church Building Act makes available £1 million for the construction of new Anglican "Commissioners' churches" to serve the expanding urban population.source
  • 1833July 14 – At Oxford University, John Keble preaches a sermon against the Church Temporalities (Ireland) Act 1833. Keble's sermon, published afterwards published as National Apostasy, is traditionally considered as the beginning of the Oxford Movement of High Church Anglicans.source
  • 1834The establishment of the Anglican mission at Te Papa peninsula, Tauranga, is begun late in the year.source
  • 1835The Anglican mission at Te Papa peninsula, Tauranga, opens. (see also 1837 & 1838)source
  • 1839An Anglican mission station is established at Ōtaki by Reverend Octavius Hadfield.source
  • 1842February – J. H. Newman, the controversial Anglican cleric, withdraws to Littlemore, outside Oxford, and establishes a semi-monastic community, "the house of the Blessed Virgin Mary at Littlemore".source
  • 1845October 9 – The eminent and controversial Anglican, John Henry Newman, is received into the Roman Catholic Church.source
  • 184728 December - Augustus Short, the first Anglican bishop of Adelaide, South Australia arrives from England.source
  • 1876July 13 – The prosecution of Arthur Tooth, an Anglican clergyman, for using ritualist practices begins.source
  • 187914 June – Sidney Faithorn Green, an Anglican priest in the Church of England, is tried and convicted for using Ritualist practices.source
  • 1888June 2 – Edward King (bishop of Lincoln) in England is called to account for using ritualistic practices in Anglican worship.source
  • 1890November 21 – Edward King, Anglican bishop of Lincoln, is convicted of using ritualistic practices.source
  • 189021 November – Edward King (bishop of Lincoln) is convicted in a special ecclesiastical court (revived for the first time since 1699) of using ritualistic practices in Anglican worship, although on a majority of counts the court finds in his favour.source

20th century

  • 1912On December 29, India obtained its first Anglican bishop. Vedanayakam Samuel Azariah (1874–1945), the son of an Indian clergyman, educated at Madras Christian College, was consecrated as the First Indian Anglican bishop in St. Paul's Cathedral, Calcutta. There were present 11 British Anglican bishops, and the Governor of Bengal. In ten days Azariah took office in the newly created diocese of Dornakal.source
  • 1973Michael Lapsley, an Anglican priest, arrives in South Africa.source
  • 1990June 24 – Kathleen Margaret Brown and Irene Templeton are ordained as priests in St Anne's Cathedral in Belfast, becoming the first female Anglican priests in the United Kingdom.source

21st century

  • 2023April 21 – The Global Fellowship of Confessing Anglicans, representing a majority of the global Anglican population, reject the leadership of Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby as the head of global Anglicanism over his support for same-sex marriage.source

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