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High Church

n
(Anglicanism) the party or movement within the Church of England stressing continuity with Catholic Christendom, the authority of bishops, and the importance of sacraments, rituals, and ceremonies. Compare Broad Church, Low Church
adj
(Anglicanism) of or relating to this party or movement
ˈHigh-ˈChurchman n
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High′ Church′


adj.
(in the Anglican church) emphasizing the Catholic tradition, esp. in adherence to sacraments, rituals, and obedience to church authority.
[1695–1705]
High′ Church′man, n.
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ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
Noun1.High Church - a group in the Anglican Church that emphasizes the Catholic tradition (especially in sacraments and rituals and obedience to church authority)High Church - a group in the Anglican Church that emphasizes the Catholic tradition (especially in sacraments and rituals and obedience to church authority)
church service, church - a service conducted in a house of worship; "don't be late for church"
religious order, religious sect, sect - a subdivision of a larger religious group
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Whether he shall be put into the main road by constables, or by beadles, or by bell-ringing, or by force of figures, or by correct principles of taste, or by high church, or by low church, or by no church; whether he shall be set to splitting trusses of polemical straws with the crooked knife of his mind or whether he shall be put to stone-breaking instead.
The three remaining years of his life he spent in the little country parish of Bemerton, just outside of Salisbury, as a fervent High Church minister, or as he preferred to name himself, priest, in the strictest devotion to his professional duties and to the practices of an ascetic piety which to the usual American mind must seem about equally admirable and conventional.
I thought you were a lady-abbess five minutes ago, and respected you accordingly; and now I see you are a sort of Swiss sibyl, with high Tory and high Church principles!"
As he trailed, Bert saw ahead of him one of the most attractive little towns in the world--a cluster of steep gables surmounted by a high church tower and diversified with trees, walled, and with a fine, large gateway opening out upon a tree-lined high road.
The group meet every other Tuesday at The Old Police Station on High Church Wynd and it is a social event for those who don't get out very often.
* High church officials likely knew about Vatican restrictions placed on former Cardinal Theodore McCarrick, according to excerpted letters released by Msgr.
The Rev Stuart Duff, minister of Birnie and Pluscarden Church and Elgin High Church and the moderator of the Moray Presbytery, said some threatened buildings could also be used as community centres.
He was built of kindness and dry wit, was a High Church Anglican, a family man, a talented professional and a friend who always made you smile.
It's time to Shine Airdrie High Church is hosting a concert featuring popular youth music theatre group Shine this Friday night.
Some of Twitter's loudest social justice warriors yelped that a nontransgender actor wasn't allowed, according to the dogma of the high church of political correctness, to portray a transgender character, and Greenbaum wanted to present the far more reasonable view that an actor's job is, well, just to act.
I focus on six of many such steps: 1) the advent and propagation of legal restraining power, 2) the enriching importance of trade, 3) military success in Europe that enlarged such trade and made England a Continental force, 4) a line of heirs within the Hanoverian dynasty, 5) a major change in political theology, and 6) a related collapse of the Tory Anglican High Church and the triumph of the lower church keen to keep peace and to support the Georgian dispensation.
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