Anglo-Catholic

American  

[ang-gloh-kath-uh-lik, -kath-lik] / ˈæŋ gloʊˈkæθ ə lɪk, -ˈkæθ lɪk /

noun

1. an adherent of Anglo-Catholicism.

2. a member of the Church of England, as distinguished from a Roman Catholic or member of the Greek or Russian Orthodox churches.

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adjective

1. of or relating to Anglo-Catholicism or Anglo-Catholics.

Anglo-Catholic British  

adjective

1. of or relating to a group within the Church of England or the Anglican Communion that emphasizes the Catholic elements in its teaching and practice

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noun

1. a member of this group

Other Word Forms

• Anglo-Catholicism noun

Etymology

Origin of Anglo-Catholic

First recorded in 1830–40

Example Sentences

Leaders at St. Mary, an Episcopal church in the Anglo-Catholic tradition, are in the early stages of studying the idea.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 1, 2024

Concurrent with epistolary dalliance, Eliot was discovering himself to be “a classicist in literature, royalist in politics, and Anglo-Catholic in religion.”

From Washington Post • Sep. 28, 2022

Raised Lutheran, he was unprepared for what he found as a first-year undergraduate at Yale in 2009 when he attended an Anglo-Catholic parish.

From New York Times • May 8, 2020

The church specialized in what Leach described as an Anglo-Catholic style of worship: a high-church, ritual- and regalia-heavy liturgy that was beautiful and traditional but didn’t put enough people in the pews.

From Washington Times • Feb. 6, 2016

The Committee of the Anglo-Catholic Library are not persons who require to be informed, that something more is demanded in an editor, than industry in hunting out references, and transcribing scraps of Latin.

From Notes and Queries, Vol. IV, Number 106, November 8, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by Various