Accession Service
The form of prayer for use on the anniversary of the accession of the reigning British sovereign, printed at the end of the BCP.
Act of Lord Hardwicke
The Clandestine Marriages Act 1753 was passed ‘for the Better Prevention of Clandestine Marriages’, and dealt with notorious abuses such as Fleet marriages and the prevalence of bigamy. For the ...
Act of Uniformity Amendment Act 1872
More generally known as the ‘Shortened Services Act’, this Act, passed by Parliament after its approval by the Convocations of Canterbury and York, provided for the optional use of shortened ...
Adam of Marsh
(d. c.1258), English theologian. Becoming a Franciscan in 1232/3, from c.1247 he was regent of the Franciscan house of studies in Oxford. Apart from his work as a scholar, he exercised great ...
Ælfheah
(954–1012),archbishop of Canterbury, was a monk at Deerhurst and at Bath before being appointed bishop of Winchester in 984. In 1006 he succeeded Ælfric as archbishop of Canterbury. A Danish host ...
Agatho
(c.577–681), Pope from 678. In 680 he held a council at Rome against the Monothelites. He also took up the cause of Wilfrid of York against Theodore, Abp. of Canterbury. Feast day, 10 Jan.
Agnellus of Pisa, B1
(c. 1194–1236),founder of the English Franciscan Province. According to tradition, he was received into the Order at Pisa, his native city, by St Francis, who later sent him to ...
Aldhelm
(c. 639–709)was one of the most learned men of his time. Thought to be related to West Saxon kings and educated at Malmesbury under the Irish scholar Maildubh, he also studied briefly at the ...
Alternative Services
The Prayer Book (Alternative and Other) Services Measure 1965 provided that for a limited period the services of the C of E might follow forms sanctioned by the Church Assembly (later by the General ...
Anglican Ordinations
Until the subject was removed from public discussion in the RC Church by Leo XIII's bull ‘Apostolicae Curae’ (1896), there was diversity of opinion in that Church about the validity of Anglican ...
Anglicanism
Of, relating to, or denoting the Church of England or any Church in communion with it. The name comes (in the early 17th century) from medieval Latin Anglicanus (its adoption suggested by Anglicana ...
Anglo-Latin literature to 1847
From the 7th to the mid‐19th cents, thousands of English writers produced Latin writings in great quantity, both in prose and in verse, addressed to a Latin‐reading public in continental Europe and ...
Anglo-Saxon Church
The Church in England from the end of the 6th cent. to the Norman Conquest (1066). In 597 the Roman mission of St Augustine landed in Thanet in the south and sees were quickly set up at Canterbury, ...
apocrisarius
An ecclesiastical deputy or other official of high rank. (1) The envoys used by the Patriarchs as diplomatic representatives in other patriarchal cities or at imperial courts. (2) Senior court ...
Archbishops' Council
A body set up by the National Institutions Measure 1998 to focus the leadership and co-ordinate the central structures of the C of E. It brings together a number of functions previously performed by ...
archdiocese
A diocese of which the holder is ex officio archbishop, e.g. Canterbury. The word is used esp. of RC archdioceses, e.g. Westminster.
Arches Court of Canterbury
The Court of the province of Canterbury which formerly met in Bow Church (‘S. Maria de Arcubus’). It now has no original jurisdiction but hears appeals from the diocesan Consistory Courts within the ...
Archibald Campbell Tait
(1811–82), Abp. of Canterbury from 1868. At Oxford in 1841 he was one of the four tutors who protested against Tract 90 (see Tractarianism), and as Bp. of London (1856–68) he withdrew the licence of ...
art and architecture: Anglo-Norman
When the Normans conquered England in 1066, there was an extraordinary and thriving artistic tradition already in place, particularly in regard to manuscript illumination. While the political and ...
art and architecture: Gothic
With the advent of the Gothic style, architecture became a leading form of artistic expression during the late MA. Despite regional peculiarities it shared a common language of forms and ...
