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Understanding the Church of England

This quiz tests your knowledge about the Church of England, its structure, history, and key figures.

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1 ________, this is the most local level, often consisting of one church building and community, although nowadays many parishes are joining forces in a variety of ways for financial reasons.

2 Where are the headquarters of Church of England?

3 In July 2005 the synod voted to "set in train" the process of allowing the consecration of women as ________.

4 The parishes each elect lay (that is non-ordained) representatives to the deanery ________.

5 The Church of England, although an ________, does not receive any direct government support.

6 Under the leadership of the Archbishop of Canterbury, ________, a more radical reformation proceeded.

7 Of the forty-four diocesan archbishops and bishops in the Church of England, only twenty-six are permitted to sit in the ________.

8 The bishops will work with an elected body of lay and ________ representatives, known as the diocesan synod, to run the diocese.

9 He was excommunicated by ________.

10 By Continental standards, the level of violence over religion was not high, but the casualties included a king, Charles I, and an Archbishop of Canterbury, ________.

💡 Interesting Facts

  • the Very Reverend Anthony Bridge, brother of former Law Lord Lord Bridge of Harwich, gave up a career as an artist to become a Church of England priest.
  • the Brighton Forum, a serviced office complex in Brighton, England, was used to train Anglican schoolmistresses before being requisitioned for the Royal Engineers' wartime use.
  • the British politician Frederick William Verney was a former Church of England clergyman who had been made a Commander of the Most Exalted Order of the White Elephant.
  • when Francis Close retired as Dean of Carlisle Cathedral in 1881, he was the oldest dean in the Church of England.
  • the parish church of Thurning, Norfolk, contains many furnishings of a destroyed chapel of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge.
  • the Church of England (Archbishop of Canterbury pictured) launched a Prayer for the Current Financial Situation that calls God to be a "a tower of strength amidst the shifting sands" of the global economic turmoil.
  • Church House is the headquarters building for the Church of England.
  • a bishop of the Church of England once won the World's Biggest Liar competition by simply stating, "I have never told a lie in my life".
  • the 1643 Westminster Assembly was appointed by Parliament to restructure the Church of England and produced the Westminster Confession, which is the foundation of the Presbyterian Church.
  • Church of England clergyman William Wayte also was a minor British chess master in the late 1800s.
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