What's the difference between the Catholic ethos and the Church of Ireland ethos?

Question

I have an interview in a couple of weeks for a Church of Ireland school and one of the criteria for interview is 'understanding of the Church of Ireland ethos'. I have always worked in Catholic schools and was raised a Catholic, so I have no idea how the ethos may differ. Can anyone help?!

Answer 1

Ethos is the disposition, character, or fundamental values peculiar to a specific person, people, culture, or movement.

The Church of Ireland is a branch of the Anglican Communion. Anglicanism has its origins in Henry VIII’s 16th-century break with Rome and establishment of an autonomous national church because of the pope’s refusal to let him divorce his first wife. Briefly suppressed during the Catholic Restoration under Queen Mary (1553-1558), the national church was restored by Elizabeth I in 1558 and has been England’s established church since then. Its titular head is the reigning monarch, Queen Elizabeth II.

Here is the official website of the Church of Ireland: http://www.ireland.anglican.org/
And the Anglican Communion: http://www.anglicancommunion.org/

With love in Christ.

Answer 2

Church of Ireland is the Irish version of the Church of England, AKA Episcopalianism.

Answer 3

I have never heard of the Church of Ireland being any different than standard issue Roman Catholicism.

I have no idea at all what they could mean as to their specific ethos.

Curious.

Answer 4

Church of Ireland is protestant - but still Christian. They don't believe in transubstantiation and all that.