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1649–1688. 1700–1950. v. t. e. The 1604 Book of Common Prayer, [ note 1] often called the Jacobean prayer book or the Hampton Court Book, [ 2] is the fourth version of the Book of Common Prayer as used by the Church of England. It was introduced during the early English reign of James I as a product of the Hampton Court Conference, a summit ...
Anglican Communion. The Lambeth Conference is a decennial assembly of bishops of the Anglican Communion convened by the Archbishop of Canterbury. The first such conference took place at Lambeth in 1867. As the Anglican Communion is an international association of autonomous national and regional churches and is not a governing body, the Lambeth ...
Further revisions, strengthening the link with Communion and intercession for the wider church and the world, appeared in the Methodist Service Book (1975) and Methodist Worship Book (1999). Although the form of the covenant prayer and service have been simplified, important elements of them are still retained from Wesley's Directions. They ...
Black Rubric. The term Black Rubric is the popular name for the declaration found at the end of the "Order for the Administration of the Lord's Supper" in the Book of Common Prayer (BCP), the Church of England 's liturgical book. The Black Rubric explains why communicants should kneel when receiving Holy Communion and excludes possible ...
Catholic Church. According to the Catholic Church, a Church Council is ecumenical ("world-wide") if it is "a solemn congregation of the Catholic bishops of the world at the invitation of the Pope to decide on matters of the Church with him". [ 1] The wider term "ecumenical council" relates to Church councils recognised by both Eastern and ...
The Catechism of the Church of England, the foundational church of the Anglican Communion, is found in the Book of Common Prayer and states that, as with other sacraments, the Eucharist is "an outward and visible sign of an inward and spiritual grace given unto us, ordained by Christ himself, as a means whereby we receive the same, and a pledge ...
A personal ordinariate for former Anglicans, [ 1][ 2] shortened as personal ordinariate or Anglican ordinariate, [ 3][ 4] is a canonical structure within the Catholic Church established in order to enable "groups of Anglicans " [ 5] and Methodists to join the Catholic Church while preserving elements of their liturgical and spiritual patrimony.
Icon depicting the Emperor Constantine (centre), accompanied by the bishops of the First Council of Nicaea (325), holding the Niceno–Constantinopolitan Creed of 381. In the history of Christianity, the first seven ecumenical councils include the following: the First Council of Nicaea in 325, the First Council of Constantinople in 381, the Council of Ephesus in 431, the Council of Chalcedon ...