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

The church specialized in what Leach described as an Anglo-Catholic style of worship: a high-church, ritual- and regalia-heavy liturgy that was beautiful and traditional but didn’t put enough people in the pews.

From Washington Times • Feb. 6, 2016

LOTSKY'S "Panslavic Literature and the British Museum," and the communication of a Subscriber to the Anglo-Catholic Library on Bishop Overall's Convocation Book, shall appear next week.

From Notes and Queries, Vol. IV, Number 105, November 1, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by Various