Anglo-Catholic

American  

[ang-gloh-kath-uh-lik, -kath-lik] / ˈæŋ gloʊˈkæθ ə lɪk, -ˈkæθ lɪk /

noun

1. an adherent of Anglo-Catholicism.

2. a member of the Church of England, as distinguished from a Roman Catholic or member of the Greek or Russian Orthodox churches.

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adjective

1. of or relating to Anglo-Catholicism or Anglo-Catholics.

Anglo-Catholic British  

adjective

1. of or relating to a group within the Church of England or the Anglican Communion that emphasizes the Catholic elements in its teaching and practice

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noun

1. a member of this group

Other Word Forms

Derived Forms

• Anglo-Catholicism
  noun

Etymology

Origin of Anglo-Catholic

First recorded in 1830–40

Example Sentences

Leaders at St. Mary, an Episcopal church in the Anglo-Catholic tradition, are in the early stages of studying the idea.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 1, 2024

Concurrent with epistolary dalliance, Eliot was discovering himself to be “a classicist in literature, royalist in politics, and Anglo-Catholic in religion.”

From Washington Post • Sep. 28, 2022

Raised Lutheran, he was unprepared for what he found as a first-year undergraduate at Yale in 2009 when he attended an Anglo-Catholic parish.

From New York Times • May 8, 2020

New Directions is written and read by traditionalist Anglo-Catholic members of the Church of England: the sort of Anglicans who are referred to colloquially as "high church".

From BBC • Mar. 10, 2017

Even the High Church Party, even the Anglo-Catholic Party only confronts a particular heresy called Protestantism upon particular points.

From Gilbert Keith Chesterton by Ward, Maisie