Chapter 4: Religion Flashcards
(13 cards)
Canterbury
Cathedral City in England
The headquarters of the Church of England
Kirk
A Scottish (and former Northern English) word meaning Church
The native word for the Church of Scotland
St. Patrick
A fifth-century Romano-British Christian missionary and bishop in Ireland.
Known as the “apostle of Ireland”
Episcopal
Member church of the worldwide Anglican Communion
Founded in the USA
Reformation
Changing religions
Low church
A tradition within the Anglican Church that is Protestant in outlook and gives relatively little emphasis to ritual, sacraments and the authority of the clergy
Free Church
Churches founded when a number of congregations separated from the church of England
Church of Scotland
The national Church of Scotland
Separated from the Catholic church
High Church
A tradition within the Anglican Church emphasising ritual, priestly authority, sacraments and historical continuity with Catholic Christianity
St. Augustine
A founder of the English Church
First Archbishop of Canterbury in the year 597
Considered the “Apostle to the English”
Born in Rome, Italy
General Synod
The tricameral deliberative and legislative organ of the Church of England.
Instituted in 1970, replacing the Church Assembly
Salvation Army
Leger des Heils
Protestant
A member or follower of the Western Christian churches that are separated from the Roman Catholic Church under the principles of the Reformation
