what's the difference between a catholic church and anglican church?

Question

I mean the Temple

Answer 1

If you mean (and I'm guessing you do) the difference between the Anglican Service and a Catholic Mass, there are not many differences at all.

But there are some. The Kyrie ("Lord Have mercy") in the Catholic Mass is replaced with the ten commandments in the Anglican service. The Anglican version of the liturgical text is typically the 1662 edition of the "Book of Common Prayer." Catholics use whatever is the local translation of the Roman Missal.

What that means in practice is that the Anglican prayers are often more old-fashioned sounding:

Catholic:

Presider: Peace be with you
Congregation: And also with you

Anglican:

Presider: Peace be with thee
Congregation: And with thy spirit

Some Anglican churches use the "Book of Alternative Services" instead of the Common Book of Prayer. When the Book of Alternative Services is used, the text of the liturgy is almost identical to Catholic liturgy.

The lectionary of both churches is almost exactly the same. The Anglicans decided to adapt the same lectionary as the Novus Ordo rite of the Catholic church, altering it only slightly.

Because the Anglican service was adapted from the pre-reformation Catholic Mass, the Anglican service preserves some older traditions of the Mass that are no longer in use with Catholics. For instance, when the priest says the prayers of consecration in an Anglican liturgy, he turns his back to the congregation, so that he is aligned with the congregation. But in the reformed Catholic liturgy, the priest faces the congregation.

But the truth is, they aren't really that different. If you weren't paying close attention, you wouldn't even notice.

In terms of the difference in construction of an Anglican church and a Catholic church, there are very few differences, and sometimes no differences.They have much, much in common, such as having a sacristy, and a rectory, altar, sanctuary, stained glass, a steeple, etc. The differences:

- No statues in the Low Anglican
- A Catholic church always has walls decorated with the Stations of the Cross, a low Anglican church will not.
- A low Anglican church may not have a tabernacle (a place where extra hosts from communion are kept.)

On the other hand, a High Anglican or Anglo-Catholic parish will often not be different in any way from a Catholic parish. Some "lower high Anglican" churches might omit the Marian chapel; but normally a high Anglican church is indistinguishable from a Catholic one.

Answer 2

That's too big a question to fully answer here.

Here is what is important. The Catholic Church was founded by Jesus 2,000 years ago. Jesus promised to send the Holy Spirit to guide His Church in all truth and that the gates of Hell would never prevail against His Church. This doesn't mean there won't be sinners in His Church. It only means that His Church would not formally teach anything that contradicted the truth of the Revelation of Jesus.

The Anglican Church was founded by King Henry VIII in the year 1534 because the Pope would not grant him a divorce with the right to remarry.

Before the year 1517, there was no such thing as the Protestants. And before the year 1054, there was only the Catholic Church.

I recommend reading the Catechism of the Catholic Church.

Answer 3

well for starters Anglican Preists are not required to be cellibate ,

The Anglican church does not say prays to Jesus mother Mary,

The Figure head of the Anglican Church is Queen Elizabeth II, The spritual head is the Arch Bishop of Canterbury ,

most Anglican Churchs do not do confession although a few of the really orthodox ones still do .

Anglican's are not expected to except the entire Bible as God's word and accept that it was written by Man and has an aspect of dogmatic influence

Anglicans are allowed to interpret the bible themselves Catholics rely on the Pope and clergy to do this,

Answer 4

The Anglicans are basically Catholics who don't recognise the authority of the Pope in Rome. It's a bit more complicated than that but the Anglicans are not hardcore protestants like the Presbyterians for example.

Answer 5

The churches (temples) are basically the same other tan Catholic churches usually have some statues of Mary about the place.

Answer 6

In terms of ritual and belief, very little. Remember that the only reason that the Anglican church even exists is that Henry VIII wanted a divorce.

Answer 7

Catholics don't allow divorce, Anglicans do...

Anglican, episcopal all stem from the church of england which was broken off because King Henry VIII (a Tudor) decided he wanted his own church, where the monarch (himself) was head, and he could divorce his Spanish wife who hadn't given him a male heir.

Answer 8

"What separates us as believers in Christ is much less than what unites us." (Pope John XXIII)

Almost all important doctrine is completely agreed upon between Catholic Christians and other Christians.

Here is the joint declaration of justification by Catholics (1999), Lutherans (1999), and Methodists (2006):

By grace alone, in faith in Christ's saving work and not because of any merit on our part, we are accepted by God and receive the Holy Spirit, who renews our hearts while equipping us and calling us to good works.

There are many minor doctrine issues and some major cultural traditional differences which, I believe, do not matter that much.

A Catholic worships and follows Christ in the tradition of Catholicism which, among other things, recognizes that Christ made Peter the leader of His new Church and Pope Benedict XVI is Peter's direct successor.

With love in Christ.

Answer 9

Anglican church is a combination of Protestant and Catholicism

Answer 10

Anglicans use the King James VERSION of the Bible, and has the Archbishop of Cantebury as the head of their faith. Not much difference besides that.