does the church of england stand for protestantism or catholicism?

Answer 1

protestant

Answer 2

The Church of England is a very very broad church. Nominally protestant it has sections that are very high church to the effect that they are Anglo-catholic. Rituals and doctrine can appear very Catholic indeed. This partly the result of the Oxford movement which advocated a return to the high church value. The only major difference is transubstantiation (the RC but not C of E belief that the Eucharist actually becomes the body and blood of Christ as opposed to it being symbolically the body and blood of Christ) and the Anglican's lack of recognition of the Pope's authority. Some Anglicans are very much on the evangelical wing. As has been pointed out these two wings can be and often are in conflict with one another. There is of course a very large section of the Anglican Communion that are atheist in all but name. The Church of England acts a very good social organisation so it helps to be an Anglican to attend all the coffee mornings, jam making sessions and dinner parties. Being Anglican seems like the respectable middle class thing to do. I'm not kidding about this part I know plenty of atheist/agnostic/not really bothered about the God bit Anglicans, including a few priests working their way up through the Church of England middle management.

Answer 3

Church of England is Anglican founder Henry VIII in the year 1534. The Church is one of the first protestantism was anti-Catholicism. Now, it is some what anti-Catholicism sometime procatholicism. Recently, a lot of Anglican Conservative have become catholics. The liberal are still anti-catholic. Bad tree like Henry VIII what good fruits can from it.

Answer 4

The Church of England came about through the Reformation. A part from the other political reasons at the time, there were factions of the Christian clergy who rebelled or protested against certain Catholic doctrine and the power the Church of Rome had over European kingdoms.
These people were known as Protestants.
The Church of England was one of these Protestant bodies.

Answer 5

It is both Catholic and Reformed - by the accident of history.
The English Church, despite being separated from Rome, remained the Catholic Church under the reign of Henry VIII - Mass still in Latin, all the sacraments intact.
The Church swung violently to the Reformed side under Edward VI (which is why the Church of England was declared null and void in its orders and sacraments).
Elizabeth I restored a compromised Church, both Reformed and retaining Catholic Belief - Elizabeth I believed in the Presence of Christ in the Eucharist).
In later times the Church has lunged in all sorts of directions but most noticeably by its continuing trend to encompass more and more all things Catholic. Read about the great Catholic Revival under the Oxford Movement in Victorian times.
The sorest point between the two churches of England and Rome is that Rome still regards the Church of England as completely null and utterly void in its sacraments and its order of priesthood.

Answer 6

C of E (which I believe is Anglican or Episcopalian in the US) is Catholic Lite. That means that when they broke from Catholicism (one of the King Henry's had a problem with the Pope), they retain almost all of the teachings and beliefs, practices and worship but they simply did not accept the Pope anymore.

This makes them technically Protestant as they "protested" against the Catholic Church.

Answer 7

The C of E is quite a broad church.
It embraces catholicism, but not Roman Catholicism, as much as it embraces protestantism.
It's odd, really. As a Buddhist I seem to be able to get on better with people from the different arms of the church than they do with each other.

Answer 8

Depends on how high up the scale you want to go. I went to a church of England school that was so high church that it bordered catholic.

Answer 9

The Church of England is definitely protestant. Infact the british constitution states that the Prime Minister can only be Protestant!

Answer 10

Historically it was inspired so a king could divorce another wife. But it does have strong Protestant themes, even thought the basic service (having witnessed both) are a simplfied version of the Catholic one.

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Answer 11

protest
the queen is the head of the church not the pope as from henry VIII s time back in 15 th cetury when he broke off with Rome ad the POpe as he wanted to divorce his first wife