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  Anglicanism

  noun

  the doctrines, principles, or system of the Anglican Church.
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  anglicanism

  noun

  the doctrine and practice of the Church of England and other Anglican Churches

Anglicanism

American  

[ang-gli-kuh-niz-uhm] / ˈæŋ glɪ kəˌnɪz əm /

noun

1. the doctrines, principles, or system of the Anglican Church.

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anglicanism British  

/ ˈæŋɡlɪkəˌnɪzəm /

noun

1. the doctrine and practice of the Church of England and other Anglican Churches

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Etymology

Origin of Anglicanism

First recorded in 1840–50; Anglican + -ism

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Anglicanism

I did, as someone who went from partially observant American Protestantism to Anglicanism to the Catholic Church.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 3, 2026

"Now we really want nothing to do with the Canterbury structure," he said, "because it's failed to hold together any sense of biblical, historic Anglicanism."

From BBC ● Dec. 24, 2025

The British monarch is head of the Church of England, the mother church of global Anglicanism.

From Barron's ● Oct. 17, 2025

The Church of God in Christ, Lutheranism and Methodism each scored +5 favorability ratings, while Anglicanism and the Episcopal Church came in at +3.

From Washington Times ● Mar. 6, 2023

The so-called High Church people emphatically insist that there is no break in the continuity of the Church of England, and that the modern Anglicanism is a direct descendant of the old British Church.

From Catholic Churchmen in Science by James J. Walsh

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