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{{Christianity}}

{{Christianity}}

The '''Anglican Communion''' is the third largest Christian division in the world after Roman Catholicism and Eastern Orthodoxy. The Anglican Communion functions as a worldwide body of associated Anglican churches in full communion with the [[Archbishop of Canterbury]]. There are also a few churches that are not Anglican but have been received into full communion with the Anglican Communion, for instance the national churches of Scandinavia. The Church of England is often seen as the Mother Church of the Anglican Communion and all Anglican churchs.

The '''Anglican Communion''' is the third largest Christian division in the world after Roman Catholicism and Eastern Orthodoxy. The Anglican Communion functions as a worldwide body of associated Anglican churches in full communion with the [[Archbishop of Canterbury]]. There are also a few churches that are not Anglican but have been received into full communion with the Anglican Communion, for instance the national churches of Scandinavia. Conversely, there are Anglican churches, accounting for approximately one-third of the world's Anglicans, which do not belong to the Anglican Communion.  The Church of England is often seen as the Mother Church of the Anglican Communion and all Anglican churches.

==Leadership==

==Leadership==

* The [[Episcopal Church in the United States of America]] remains a member of the Anglican Communion but has yielded to demands from other Communion members to remove itself from participation in the Communion's council for everyday decision-making. This has occurred in the aftermath of the Episcopal Church's refusal to adhere to demands made to her to cease consecrating homosexual bishops. In addition, many provinces of the Anglican Communion are no longer in full communion with the Episcopal church, having unilaterally discontinued the relationship.  

* The [[Episcopal Church in the United States of America]] remains a member of the Anglican Communion but has yielded to demands from other Communion members to remove itself from participation in the Communion's council for everyday decision-making. This has occurred in the aftermath of the Episcopal Church's refusal to adhere to demands made to her to cease consecrating homosexual bishops. In addition, many provinces of the Anglican Communion are no longer in full communion with the Episcopal church, having unilaterally discontinued the relationship.  

[[Continuing Anglican]]ism is a movement of churches whose beliefs and practices are Anglican but which separated from member churches of the Anglican Communion. They are '''not''' in full communion with the Church of England and do not seek to be so. These churches are generally more conservative than the churches which hold membership in the Anglican Communion.

[[Continuing Anglican]]ism is a movement of churches whose beliefs and practices are Anglican but which separated from member churches of the Anglican Communion. They are not in full communion with the Church of England and do not seek to be so. These churches are generally more conservative than the churches which hold membership in the Anglican Communion.

[[Category:British History]]

[[Category:British History]]

[[Category:Anglicans]]

[[Category:Anglicans]]