A question for father K. What happened to anglican church in America? Why presbiterians, episcopalians, etc,?

Question

I Asume that the meaning of the word anglican means "english", if it has another meaning please explain me.

For example I live in Mexico city, and I'm catholic, it would be useless that I convert to anglicanism, because I'm not in England, And by your saying I understand that anglicans are the catholic church in England. If the church is ONE, is St. Thomas More a Saint for the anglican church? for the roman catholic church he's a saint.

Canterbury would be as Rome for the anglicans in America, If catholics in England are anglicans and don't have any thing to do with Rome, catholics in America don't have anything to do with England, so there shouldn't be anglicans outside England, that's only a personal opinion, I don't know if I'm right.

there are things I don't understand, I'm asking with respect.

Answer 1

That's a lot of questions.

Here. Watch this video. It will answer many of your questions.

http://www.themessenger.com.au/Video/20070329.htm

After that, feel free to e-mail me.

Answer 2

First of all the Anglican Church is NOT The Catholic church of England. The Anglican Church is the Church of England founded by Henry VIII due to the fact that Henry VIII wanted to divorce his wife for not giving him a male child. Henry VIII broke away from the Catholic church and founded the Anglican Church. The Anglican Church is NOT in union with the Roman Catholic Church.

I actually don't think Thomas Moore is a saint in the Catholic Church, but I can't remember for sure. I do know that the Anglican church and the Catholic church have some of the same saints, and some different saints. Also, Mary is not venerated in the Anglican Church like she is in the Catholic Church. A lot of the same elements of the church service are the same in both Churches, but there are some major differences. They allow women priests for example. Also there Structure and hierarchy are different.

The Anglican Church spread throughout the world because it is less strict than the Catholic church is. For instance, they do not have confession. Most American Anglican church's are now called episcopalian instead of Anglican, but they are the same thing. There is no reason for the Anglican church to be just in England. That would be like saying the Roman Catholic Church should only be in Rome. I hope this helps you understand a little bit more.

Answer 3

"Anglican" is a term used generally to describe the various churches around the world which are in communion with the Church of England, known as the "Anglican Communion." The structure of the Anglican communion is quite different from that of the Roman Catholic Church, as there is no single person or body in charge of everybody (like the Pope for the Romans). Each church within the Anglican Communion is self-governing within each country. (And country can be pretty broadly defined--there are separate churches in England (the Church of England), Wales (the Chuch in Wales), Scotland (the Scottish Episcopal Church), and Ireland (the Church of Ireland).)

As you might expect, this does lead to tension among various branches of the Communion which may disagree upon doctrine. We are going through such a period at present concerning issues of sexuality, but we seem to have weathered such difficulties in the past, and I hope we do so again.

Some other churches may call themselves "Anglican" because they have branched off from the Anglican Communion, but still use Anglican forms of worship (sometimes, older forms), and accept some of the same doctrine. Many of these churches would assert that they are practicing "true" Anglicanism, but they are not in communion with the Church of England. I believe this is true of Fr. K's "Traditional Anglican Communion."

In the United States, the church used to be called the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America, but recently changed its official name to the Episcopal Church. There is a branch of the Anglican Communion in Mexico (in fact, a friend of mine was recently a missionary there), called Iglesia Anglicana de México, A.R. It was originally part of the US church, but became self-governing in 1995.

The Archbishop of Caterbury is only the titular head of the Anglican Communion, but has no authority to enact or enforce church doctrine, so Canturbury is not really like Rome (except, in some sense, for the Church of England).

Presbyterians are not Anglicans, but are a different protestant denomination which was most strongly adopted among English speaking people in Scotland.

Hope this all helps.

Answer 4

The Anglican church is the Church of England, whose head is the Queen, or whoever the current monarch is at the time. Henry VIII did away with the Catholic church in England, when the Pope would not allow him to divorce.

Answer 5

the anglicans aer closs to catholic but not catholic they do not recognise the pope as head of the church. there are catholics in the uk who look to rome the queen is the head of the church of england but not in the was the pope is for the catholics.

Answer 6

sorry if i am not father K...but i think i can provide some insight. hopefully he sees and answers later as i might be mistaken.

i believe these churches (presbyterian, episcopalian etc) all splintered off later due to different tranlations in the bible. if a group of catholics didn't like sexism and wanted women and gays to be able to lead mass, they had to start their own 'catholic' faith and rename it as the actual catholic church is too bulky and resistant to change. i have encouraged my catholic mother (who wants to be a deacon) to leave the catholic church to the episcopalian one where the differences are small (transubstantiation and women/gay leaders being the only two i know).