The puritans
If we are talking about the cathedral, it is an Anglican Cathedral within the Church of England, but whose tradition is 'high' church Anglican.
John Wesley was an Anglican priest who, with his brother Charles, stated Methodism as a movement within the Anglican church, out of their beliefs that the church was not reaching the working class and that true Christianity requires a change of heart, not just adherence to a set of creeds and rituals.
Within Christianity there are various churches, or 'traditions', such as the Roman Catholic Church and the Greek Orthodox Church. These are often called 'denominations'. One of these church traditions is called 'Anglican'. This word means 'English' and the 'Anglican Church' was originally another name for the Church of England but is now also often used for other national Anglican churches such as the Anglican Church of Canada. The various national Anglican churches belong to the worldwide Anglican Communion. In some countries, such as the United States, the national Anglican church is called the Episcopal Church and its members are often called 'Episcopalians'.
Christianity within the Church of England is still the largest. Sometimes called the Anglican Church.
Puritans believed that the Anglican Church retained too many elements of Roman Catholicism and sought to purify it through reforms. They objected to the elaborate rituals, hierarchy, and perceived lack of spiritual discipline within the Anglican Church. Ultimately, many Puritans separated from the Anglican Church to form their own distinct religious communities.
Unlike the Pilgrims who felt there could be a change made from within to their mother church, the Puritans believed there could only be one thing to correct the problem - break away from the Anglican or Church of England altogether - which they did.
Methodism began as a movement within the Anglican church, out of John and Charles Wesley's beliefs that the church was not reaching the working class and that true Christianity requires a change of heart, not just adherence to a set of creeds and rituals.
Methodism began as a movement within the Anglican church, out of John and Charles Wesley's beliefs that the church was not reaching the working class and that true Christianity requires a change of heart, not just adherence to a set of creeds and rituals.
Methodism began as a movement within the Anglican church, out of John and Charles Wesley's beliefs that the church was not reaching the working class and that true Christianity requires a change of heart, not just adherence to a set of creeds and rituals.
John Wesley was an Anglican priest to the day he died. He never intended to start a separate church. He and his brother Charles started the Methodist movement within the Anglican church out of their belief that:true Christianity required a change of heart, not merely the observance of ritual; andthe church was not reaching the working classes.
An area of land (usually county-sized) that is supervised by a bishop is called a diocese. The most important church within a diocese where the Bishop's throne is situated (the 'cathedra') is called a cathedral. Any church within the same denomination and diocese is a 'diocesan church' in the sense that it belongs to that diocese. As an example, in an Anglican diocese, all Anglican churches are diocesan churches, but Methodist, Baptist, URC etc churches, even if they are within that diocese, are not.
The Anglican Church has its roots in the separation of the Church of England from the Roman Catholic Church in the 16th century. The Holy Ghost as much as anyone I should imagine! The Anglican Church is a Communion within the Catholic Church as is both Orthodoxy and Romanism! The name Anglican first appeared in 750 in Bede's History of Britain. It occured again in 1215 in the Magna Charter and was used during the middle ages to denote the Church during contact with Continental churches.