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Heritage from History. That the Anglican Communion can be both high Catholic and low Protestant is its heritage from history. Despite the break with Rome under Henry VIII, Anglicanism preserved the ecclesiastical government of bishops in the apostolic succession and the central place of corporate liturgical worship. But the Church of England, with the Continental Reformation, accepted the Bible as the final authority for faith, and recognized only two Christ-instituted sacraments, baptism and Holy Eucharist. Yet if churchmen find it hard to describe a specifically Anglican theology, there is no doubting the reality of a modern Anglican theological manner...
...Anglican Communion also has a living link: every church represented at Toronto is in communion with the see founded in A.D. 597 by St. Augustine of Canterbury. After a centuries-long struggle for precedence between the two sees of Canterbury and York, Pope Innocent VI (1352-62) made the Archbishop of Canterbury Primate of All England. The Archbishop of York was granted the lesser title Primate of England; the Most Rev. and Rt. Hon. Donald Coggan is the incumbent. Primacy does not make Canterbury head of his church (the Queen is). Yet as first bishop of England, he ranks...
Study After Evensong. Ramsey and his wife Joan (they have no children) live weekdays in Lambeth Palace, the archiepiscopal residence in London across the Thames from Parliament. His life at Lambeth is an almost monastic blend of work and prayer. His day begins with private prayer and Holy Communion in the palace chapel (the archbishop, in Eucharistic vestments, is the celebrant on Tuesdays and Thursdays, receives the Host and chalice from the hand of one of his chaplains on other days) and ends after Evensong and dinner with a long night of reading and study. Most of his archiepiscopal work...
...archbishop spends more time at Canterbury than any other primate in recent memory; he makes the 70-mile trip to his cathedral almost every weekend to preside at Sunday Matins and Communion. Ramsey loves to visit country parishes, and often startles passers-by with his opening conversational gambit: "I'm the archbishop. Who are you?" He takes his honors lightly. When a U.S. newspaper photographer last year asked, "Archie, could you look this way, please?", Ramsey equably answered: "The name is Mike...
...spiritual battle-and it must. "It's not a question of the Anglican Church's losing ground," says the Rt. Rev. Edward Ralph Wickham, Suffragan Bishop of Middleton. "We've already lost it." Of 27 million Englishmen baptized in the church, only 3,000,000 receive Communion even once a year, and cathedral deans hollowly conduct their stately services before a silent...