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

• 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

Anglo-Catholic, a term sometimes used to designate those churches which hold the principles of the English Reformation, the Anglican or Established Church of England and the allied churches.

From The New Gresham Encyclopedia. Vol. 1 Part 2 Amiel to Atrauli by Various