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Province, i.e., Canterbury or York. This is the area under the jurisdiction of an archbishop, i.e. the Archbishops of Canterbury and York. Decision-making within the province is the responsibility of the General Synod (see also above). A province is subdivided into dioceses. Primacy, i.e., Church of England.
Protestant Church in Indonesia – 3.1 million [154] United Church in Zambia – 3.0 million [155] Evangelical Church of Cameroon – 2.5 million [156] Christian Evangelical Church in Timor – 2.0 million [157] Protestant Church of Switzerland – 1.9 million [158] Protestant Church in the Netherlands – 1.4 million [159]
This is a list of the largest Protestant denominations. It aims to include sizable Protestant communions, federations, alliances, councils, fellowships, and other denominational organisations in the world and provides information regarding the membership thereof. The list is inevitably partial and generally based on claims by the denominations ...
The term protestant, though initially purely political in nature, later acquired a broader sense, referring to a member of any Western church which subscribed to the main Protestant principles. [18] A Protestant is an adherent of any of those Christian bodies that separated from the Church of Rome during the Reformation, or of any group ...
Under the guidance of Protestant councilors, including Cranmer, the Church of England was transformed into a fully Protestant Church. A Book of Homilies was published, from which all clergy were to preach on Sundays. [41] The homilies condemned relics, images, rosary beads, holy water, palms, and other "papistical superstitions".
Anglicanism is a Western Christian tradition which developed from the practices, liturgy, and identity of the Church of England following the English Reformation, [1] in the context of the Protestant Reformation in Europe.
According to a 2019 study, Protestant share of U.S. population dropped to 43%, further ending its status as religion of the majority. [ 34 ] [ 35 ] [ 36 ] The decline is attributed mainly to the dropping membership of the Mainline Protestant churches [ 35 ] [ 37 ] and even among Evangelical Protestant churches [ 38 ] [ 39 ] while Black churches ...
A list of 26 sisterhoods is given in the Official Year-Book of the C.E. (1900), to which may be added 10 institutions of deaconesses, many of whom live in community under a rule. In 1909 the number of women in religious orders in England was estimated as some 1300; whereas at the time of the dissolution under King Henry VIII there had only been ...