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Anglicanism
The Church of England and the Anglican Communion; Episcopalianism
1534 CE – present · Abrahamic · Living · England, Nigeria, Uganda, Kenya, US, Australia, Canada
VI. REFORMATION & EARLY MODERN — 1500 – 1800
### How many
### Who began it
### What it is for
### What it worships
### What it holds
### What it does
### After death
### Its texts
### Its branches
### Of note
### Its timeline
- 1534 CE Act of Supremacy.
- 1536–41 CE Dissolution of the monasteries; the largest transfer of property in English history.
- 1549, 1552 CE Cranmer's prayer books.
- 1553–58 CE Mary I restores Catholicism; Cranmer, Latimer and Ridley are burned.
- 1559 CE Elizabethan Settlement.
- 1611 CE King James Bible.
- 1642–60 CE Civil War; episcopacy and the prayer book abolished, then restored in 1660.
- 1662 CE The Act of Uniformity ejects around 2,000 clergy who will not conform, creating English Nonconformity.
- 1784 CE Samuel Seabury consecrated in Scotland for America; the Episcopal Church becomes the first Anglican province outside the British Isles.
- 1807, 1833 CE William Wilberforce and the Clapham Sect drive the abolition of the slave trade and then of slavery in the British Empire — while the church itself had owned plantations and slaves, for which it apologised in 2006.
- 1833 CE Oxford Movement; Anglo-Catholic revival.
- 1867 CE First Lambeth Conference.
- 1944, 1974, 1994, 2014 CE Women ordained: Hong Kong, then Philadelphia, then England as priests, then as bishops.
- 2003–present The consecration of an openly gay bishop in the US precipitates a sustained realignment; GAFCON forms; the communion remains formally intact and functionally fractured.
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