Word: annunciationists
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Such a church," said the Rev. Hugh Ross Williamson, an Annunciationist leader and playwright, "cannot be called a Christian church in any hitherto definable sense of the term . . . After today, it will be impossible to be certain that any ordination in the Church of England is valid. This is not just another crisis. It is a unique happening which is bound to have historical consequences...
Suspect Orders. Then Father Williamson intimated that many Annunciationist priests (his estimate: 1,700 to 2,000, a figure that Anglican sources claim is grossly exaggerated) might be forced to secede and join the Roman Catholic Church. Reason: "That we may, by continuing to hold to the faith, represent the true Church of England, and that if we seek reconciliation with the Holy See we may end, historically speaking, the schism which took place under Henry VIII...
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