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Anglicanism. The Anglican Consultative Council ( ACC) is one of the four "Instruments of Communion" of the Anglican Communion. It was created by a resolution of the 1968 Lambeth Conference. The council, which includes Anglican bishops, other clergy, and laity, meets every two or three years in different parts of the world.
v. t. e. The Code of Rubrics is a three-part liturgical document promulgated in 1960 under Pope John XXIII, which in the form of a legal code indicated the liturgical and sacramental law governing the celebration of the Roman Rite Mass and Divine Office . Pope John approved the Code of Rubrics by the motu proprio Rubricarum instructum of 25 ...
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 ...
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 ...
A priest and altar server kneel to recite the Leonine Prayers. The Leonine Prayers, also known as Prayers after Mass, are a prescribed set of Catholic prayers for recitation by the priest and people after Low Mass required within the Roman Rite of the Latin Church from 1884 to 1965. [1] [2] The name derives from their introduction by Pope Leo XIII.
The Free Church of England was founded principally by EvangelicalLow Churchclergy and congregations in response to what were perceived as attempts (inspired by the Oxford Movement) to re-introduce traditional Catholicpractices into the Church of England, England's established church. The first congregation was formed by the ReverendJames Shore ...
Eucharistic theology. Eucharistic theology is a branch of Christian theology which treats doctrines concerning the Holy Eucharist, also commonly known as the Lord's Supper and Holy Communion. It exists exclusively in Christianity, as others generally do not contain a Eucharistic ceremony. In the Gospel accounts of Jesus ' earthly ministry, a ...
The Anglican Communion is the third largest Christian communion after the Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox churches. [2] [3] [4] Formally founded in 1867 in London, the communion has more than 85 million members [5] [6] [7] within the Church of England and other autocephalous national and regional churches in full communion. [8]