Holmpatrick St Patrick Church in Skerries, County Dublin
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Protestant
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Anglican[a]
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Primates
Archbishop of Armagh – John McDowell
Archbishop of Dublin – Michael Jackson
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Region
Ireland
Language
English, Irish
Headquarters
Church of Ireland House Church Avenue Rathmines Dublin D06 CF67 Ireland
Independence
1871 (disestablishment)
Separated from
Roman Catholic Church in 1536
Branched from
Theologically: Church of England
Congregations
1100 places of worship 450 parishes[1]
Members
343,400[2]
Official website
ireland.anglican.org
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The Church of Ireland (Irish: Eaglais na hÉireann, pronounced[ˈaɡlˠəʃn̪ˠəˈheːɾʲən̪ˠ]; Ulster-Scots: Kirk o Airlann, IPA:[kɪrkəˈerlən(d)])[3] is a Christian church in Ireland, and an autonomous province of the Anglican Communion. It is organised on an all-Ireland basis and is the second-largest Christian church on the island after the Roman Catholic Church. Like other Anglican churches, it has retained elements of pre-Reformation practice, notably its episcopal polity, while rejecting the primacy of the pope.
In theological and liturgical matters, it incorporates many principles of the Reformation, particularly those of the English Reformation, but self-identifies as being both Reformed and Catholic, in that it sees itself as the inheritor of a continuous tradition going back to the founding of Christianity in Ireland.[4] As with other members of the global Anglican communion, individual parishes accommodate different approaches to the level of ritual and formality, variously referred to as High and Low Church.[5]
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^"The Church of Ireland – About Us". ireland.anglican.org. The Church of Ireland. Retrieved 11 August 2023.
^2001 Northern Irish census leaflet, Ulster-Scots NI Statistics and Research Agency. Retrieved 25 September 2012.
^""About Us", Church of Ireland website". Archived from the original on 24 April 2012. Retrieved 1 May 2012.
^Church of Ireland Archived 2 April 2015 at the Wayback Machine
The ChurchofIreland (Irish: Eaglais na hÉireann, pronounced [ˈaɡlˠəʃ n̪ˠə ˈheːɾʲən̪ˠ]; Ulster-Scots: Kirk o Airlann, IPA: [kɪrk ə ˈerlən(d)]) is a Christian...
Catholic Church in Ireland (Irish: An Eaglais Chaitliceach in Éireann, Ulster Scots: Catholic Kirk in Airlann) or Irish Catholic Church, is part of the worldwide...
Irishchurch may refer to: Roman Catholic Church in IrelandChurchofIreland Presbyterian Church in Ireland Christianity in Ireland Celtic Christianity...
denomination in the Republic ofIreland, and the largest Protestant denomination in Northern Ireland. Like most Christian churches in Ireland, it is organised on...
religion in the Republic ofIreland is Christianity, with the largest denomination being the Catholic Church. The Constitution ofIreland says that the state...
The Churchof England (C of E) is the established Christian Church in England and the Crown Dependencies. It is the origin of the Anglican tradition,...
Republic ofIreland and Northern Ireland. In the Republic ofIreland, 69% of the population adheres to the Catholic Church. In Northern Ireland, the largest...
Presbyterian Church in Ireland, the Non-subscribing Presbyterian ChurchofIreland, the Free Presbyterian Churchof Ulster, the Reformed Presbyterian Churchof Ireland...
English (or Anglo-Irish) minority. The Protestant ChurchofIreland was the state church. The Parliament ofIreland was composed of Anglo-Irish nobles. From...
the Churchof England, the Church in Wales, the Scottish Episcopal Church and the ChurchofIreland. For a list of all dioceses worldwide see List of Anglican...
Northern Ireland. In the 2021 census, 79.7% of the Northern Irish population identified as Christians: Catholic (42.3%); Presbyterian (16.6%); Churchof Ireland...
Republic ofIreland on an all-Ireland basis. It is the fourth-largest Christian denomination in Northern Ireland. The Irish Methodist Church has close...
senior. The titles are used by both the Catholic Church in Ireland and ChurchofIreland. Primate is a title of honour, and in the Middle Ages there was an...
influx of Protestantism began only with the spread of the English Reformation to Ireland. The ChurchofIreland was established by King Henry VIII of England...
Ireland (Irish: Éire [ˈeːɾʲə] ), also known as the Republic ofIreland (Poblacht na hÉireann), is a country in north-western Europe consisting of 26 of...
of the Catholic Church in such matters. Nevertheless, he is venerated as a saint in the Catholic Church, the Lutheran Church, the ChurchofIreland (part...
The counties ofIreland (Irish: Contaetha na hÉireann) are historic administrative divisions of the island. They began as Norman structures, and as the...
existing by the mid-18th century were the Churchof England, its closely linked sister church the ChurchofIreland (which also separated from Roman Catholicism...
IrishChurch Act 1869 (32 & 33 Vict. c. 42) was an act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom which separated the ChurchofIreland from the Church of...
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established church, the ChurchofIreland. While these laws were later eased, including by the Treaty of Limerick which followed the Williamite War in Ireland (1688–1691)...
the end of the 6th century it had introduced writing along with a predominantly monastic Celtic Christian church, profoundly altering Irish society....
to its east by the North Channel, the Irish Sea, and St George's Channel. Ireland is the second-largest island of the British Isles, the third-largest...
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