When did anglicanism begin to exist as a varient church?

Answer 1

Anglicanism is a tradition within Christianity that was made up of the Church Of England and churches that have been historically tied to it. The word Anglican dates to at least 1246, and means the English Church.

Answer 2

According to the Scriptures the Catholic Church started in an upper room in Jerusalem.

Albanicus the Wise, claimed the Christian Church was in this country within AD 37! He was a Celtic Historian. Lingard the Roman Historian said that Aristobulos, a friend of Paul and who received a mention in Acts was the first Bishop of the Church in Britain.

The Church for several hundred years was known as the Celtic Church but in the 7th Century there was an Anglo-Saxon political takeover and in Bede's History of the,' English People,' the Church was referred to as the Ecclesia Anglicana. Another reference was made in the Magna Carta where again Ecclesia Anglicana was used to describe our Church.

Answer 3

It began with the break between King Henry VIII of England and the Roman Church, specifically Pope Clement VII, in 1534. This was the beginning of the Anglican Church in name, although Christianity first came to the British Isles in the 1st or 2nd century, and there were many unique English elements to the faith, even while they were still in full communion with Rome.

Anglican Catholic Answers!

The Church has never officially broken with the Roman Church, it was the other way around, by means of the Church of Trent.

The name Anglican in reference to the Church in England was first used by Baeda in his history of England when he describes the Church in England as the Ecclesia Anglicana! That was about 750 AD, later at the time of the struggle for the Magna Carta, this term was used again to describe the Church of the English People.

It was also used during the middle ages to identify the Church in England in correspondence with Continental Churches!

The faith was brought to Britain within a few months of the resurrection, brought by S. Simon Zelote, Brother of Christ! The First bishop was Aristobulos, consecrated bishop by S.Paul.