[Magdalen] TEC talk

[Simon Kershaw]

And since the text of that Article Five is itself of some interest, here 
it is in full:

"ARTICLE FIFTH.

"That it be the Fifth Article of Union, That the Churches of England and 
Ireland, as now by Law established, be united into one Protestant 
Episcopal Church, to be called, The United Church of England and 
Ireland; and that the Doctrine, Worship, Discipline, and Government of 
the said United Church shall be, and shall remain in full force for 
ever, as the same are now by Law established for the Church of England; 
and that the Continuance and Preservation of the said United Church, as 
the established Church of England and Ireland, shall be deemed and taken 
to be an essential and fundamental Part of the Union; and that in like 
Manner the Doctrine, Worship, Discipline, and Government of the Church 
of Scotland, shall remain and be preserved as the same are now 
established by Law, and by the Acts for the Union of the two Kingdoms of 
England and Scotland."

The whole Act can be found at
  
http://rahbarnes.co.uk/union/the-united-kingdom-of-union-1800/union-with-ireland-act-1800/

But note in particular that this united church is explicitly referred to 
as "one Protestant Episcopal Church".

Large chunks of the Act have since been repealed. But the last clause of 
this Article is still on the statute book, from after the semi-colon 
(i.e. the reference to the continued independence of the Church of 
Scotland, which is the presbyterian church).

simon


On 2019-10-21 15:57, Simon Kershaw wrote:
> I'm not sure you are quite right about that, Ferdinand :-)
> 
> The Church of Ireland was indeed disestablished and disendowed under
> the terms of the Irish Church Act 1869, and which came into effect on
> 1 January 1871).
> 
> And prior to that, there had been a United Church of England and 
> Ireland.
> 
> But that United Church had been created by Article V of the Acts of
> Union 1800. Before that the Church of England and the Church of
> Ireland had been separate sister churches.
> 
> So when Samuel Seabury was consecrated in 1784, and the first General
> Convention of the PECUSA took place in 1785, it became the fourth
> national church of what is now the Anglican Communion, as it was only
> some 11 or 12 years later that the England and Ireland were united as
> a single church.


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Simon Kershaw
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St Ives, Cambridgeshire