Anglo-Catholicism
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the tradition or form of worship in the Anglican Church that emphasizes Catholicity, the apostolic succession, and the continuity of all churches within the communion with pre-Reformation Christianity as well as the importance of liturgy and ritual.
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the religion of the Church of England, as distinguished from that of the Roman Catholic, Greek Orthodox, or Russian Orthodox churches.
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Wilfred deserted his father's Evangelical plainness for High Church Anglo-Catholicism with its in cense, vestments and Roman-style ritual.
From Time Magazine Archive
The Church of England's communicants run a gamut from High-Church Anglo-Catholicism, flickering with votive lights and aromatic with incense, to a Quaker-plain Low-Churchmanship that might make a Methodist uneasy.
From Time Magazine Archive
A devout convert to Anglo-Catholicism, Eliot consciously designed The Cocktail Party as a spiritual parable.
From Time Magazine Archive
Since the 17th century, the Church of England has been divided between High Church Anglo-Catholicism and Low Church Evangelicals.
From Time Magazine Archive
Both father and son had belonged to the straitest sect of Anglo-Catholicism; their tender devotion to each other had touched with beauty the austerity and seclusion of their lives.
From The Coryston Family A Novel by Mrs. Humphry Ward
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