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Summary
- The Church of England broke with Rome through the Act of Supremacy of 1534 and took Protestant doctrine under Edward VI and Elizabeth I.
- Under the Accession Declaration Act 1910, each new British sovereign declares, “I am a faithful Protestant.”
- The Church of England describes itself as both catholic and reformed; its Evangelical wing stresses the Protestant side and its Anglo-Catholic wing the catholic side.
- The Thirty-nine Articles teach justification by faith only and count two sacraments of the Gospel, Baptism and the Supper of the Lord.
- Unlike Presbyterians and Baptists, Anglicans keep bishops in historic succession and pray from the Book of Common Prayer.
- The King is Supreme Governor of the Church of England, but not of the Presbyterian Church of Scotland.
- The Episcopal Church’s official name is still “The Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America.”
Bibliography (Click to show)
- Scripture: King James Version, 1 Corinthians 10:16, from BibleGateway.
- Church of England, The Thirty-nine Articles of Religion (agreed 1563, or 1562 by the old calendar, confirmed 1571).
- Church of England, History of the Church of England.
- Church of England, Canons of the Church of England, Section A (Canons A5 and A7).
- Church of England, Canons of the Church of England, Section C (Canon C15, the Declaration of Assent).
- Church of England, The Ministration of Public Baptism of Infants, Book of Common Prayer (1662).
- UK Parliament, The Reformation.
- Accession Declaration Act 1910, section 1 and Schedule, legislation.gov.uk.
- The Royal Family, The King and Faith.
- Christian History Institute, Thomas Cranmer and the English Reformation: Did You Know?
- Church Society, Our Vision.
- Forward in Faith, About us.
- Anglican Communion, Member Churches (read 19 October 2026), and the Instruments of Communion.
- Porvoo Communion, Frequently Asked Questions and What is the Porvoo Communion?
- The Episcopal Church, Who We Are, What We Believe, and the glossary entries Episcopal Church, The, Via Media and Anglican Communion.
- The Episcopal Church, Constitution and Canons 2022, Preamble.
- Anglican Church in North America, About.
- Anglican Church in North America, GAFCON and Structure.
- Anglican Journal, Conservative Anglican primates recognize proposed North American entity, April 2009.
- Pew Research Center, Appendix B: Classification of Protestant denominations, 2023–24 Religious Landscape Study.
- The Augsburg Confession, Articles IX, X and XXIV, BookOfConcord.org.
- Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, Synods.
- The Westminster Confession of Faith, chapters 21, 28 and 29, Orthodox Presbyterian Church.
- The Church of Scotland, Our structure.
- Southern Baptist Convention, The Baptist Faith and Message 2000.
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