What are the types of Anglican churches?

Answer 1

As for the buildings - most types of Anglican church buildings are similar to other denominations - at one end there is a Communion table (called 'altar in RC churches) at which the bread and wine are shared during Communion services. In the same area is a communion rail where believers receive the bread and wine whilst kneeling. In addition there will be a pulpit fromwhere the sermon is preached, a lectern from where The Bible is read, a font for baptisms and a means of creating music -- usually an organ or a piano, or space for musicians. All Anglican churches have these common things - but some have them to a greater or less degree with regard to ornateness, size and so on. As for the types of churches (as bodies of people) then the Anglican Church is very broad. At one end, there are charmatic evangelical Anglicans whose worship is similar to the Pentecostal Church where gifts of the Spirit ( especially prophesy and speaking in tongues) are important. The style of worship will have modern music and there will be a great deal of arm waving and even liturgical dance. At the other extreme there is the Anglo-Catholic wing where the 'High Church' Anglican is more reminiscent of Roman Catholic worship where the use of older music, and a great deal of ceremony with incense, lavish robes and so on create a mysterious ambiene to accompany the worship. Within these two extremes are the majority of Anglican churches where traditional services (like Morning prayer, Evening prayer and Holy Communion) are common, and where there is, perhaps, a little of the two extremes in worship, but the use of charismatic liturgy or Roman ceremony is very limited or non-existent. Unlike some denominations, the Anglican Church is not split into further subdivisions that have little to do with one another. The international Anglican Church consists of local groups of churches (eg The Church of England, The Church in Wales, The Episcopal Church in the USA) all of which are in full communion with each other across the Anglican Church worldwide.