Anglo-Catholicism

[ ang-gloh-kuh-thol-uh-siz-uhm ]

noun

1. the tradition or form of worship in the Anglican Church that emphasizes Catholicity, the apostolic succession, and the continuity of all churches within the communion with pre-Reformation Christianity as well as the importance of liturgy and ritual.
2. the religion of the Church of England, as distinguished from that of the Roman Catholic, Greek Orthodox, or Russian Orthodox churches.

Example Sentences

This group had a religious or ideal starting-point in the revived Anglo-Catholicism which arose in Oxford at the time, and they had principles of art in common which they embodied in their work.

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Anglicanism resorts to a grand pageant of uniformity, beneath which, however, lurk Anglo-Catholicism, Evangelicism, and Liberalism, by no means uniform in faith.

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She believed that if Gerda were to turn from secularism it would either be to Anglo-Catholicism or to Rome.

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They fought the battle of Anglo-Catholicism, at Oxford and elsewhere, with a whole-hearted conviction that knew no misgivings or scruples.

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The consolations of Anglo-Catholicism, then, were insufficient for the spiritual needs of this scion of the Low Church.

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