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[1558-1603]: The Book of Common Prayer [revised in 1552] and the
Thirty-Nine Articles of Religion [1563] define the distinctive character
of Anglicanism as part of the Protestant movement; however, there was
growing dissent among some Anglicans who wanted church leaders to
take a stronger stand in favor of Protestant reforms; some of the
dissenters or non-conformists formed pressure groups within the
Anglican Church [such as the Puritans] whereas others left to establish
independent churches that became known as Congregationalists,
Presbyterians, Baptists, Quakers, Methodists, etc.
B1.301 The Anglican Church (1535-1559, Canterbury, England: the High
Church Tradition is Anglo-Catholic in orientation, and the Low Church
Tradition is more Protestant in character; the first Anglican churches in
America were established in Newfoundland, Canada, in 1593 and the
Virginia Colony in the USA in 1587; Anglican priests in Jamaica and
West Indies, 1660s; missionaries of the SPG (Society for the
Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts, 1701) in Central America,
1760s: Belize, Honduras [Black River/Río Sico] and Nicaragua
[Blewfields].
B1.3011 Society for the Propagation of Christian Knowledge, SPCK (1699,
London, England)
B1.3012 Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts, SPG
(1701, London, England)
B1.302 Protestant Episcopal Church (represents the Anglican tradition in the
USA, founded 1789; its new name since 1967 is The Episcopal Church,
with headquarters in New York City, NY)
B1.3021 South American Missionary Society, SAMS (USA headquarters in
Union Mills, NC)
B1.303 Reformed Episcopal Church (1873, Philadelphia)
B1.304 Apostolic Episcopal Church (1930, Glendale, CA)
B1.305 Anglican Orthodox Church (1963, Statesville, NC)
B1.306 American Episcopal Church (1968, Charlottesville, VA)
B1.307 Anglican Episcopal Church of North America (1972, Palo Alto, CA)
B1.308 Diocese of Christ The King (1977, Berkeley, CA)
B1.309 Anglican Catholic Church (1977, St. Louis, MO; a protest movement
within the Protestant Episcopal Church against the modernization of the
Church, the ordination of women, and the discontinuance of the Book of
Common Prayer, 1928 Edition)
B1.3091 Anglican Catholic Church, Hispanic Province of the Americas (1979,
Orange, NJ)
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