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The Church of Ireland () is an autonomous province of the Anglican Communion, operating seamlessly across the border between the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland. Like other Anglican churches, it considers itself to be both Catholicism and Protestant Reformation.http://www.ireland.anglican.org/index.php?do=about The Church of Ireland: About us

When the Church of England broke with the Pope and communion with the Roman Catholic Church, the Church in Ireland likewise underwent reformation, with those adhering to the new rules becoming the State Church and holding possession of official Church property, even as doctrine was changed, while the majority of the population remained loyal to the Roman Catholic Church and continue to do so to this day. As the reformed Church of Ireland took possession of practically all official Church property, it retained and retains a great repository of religious architecture and other items.

Despite its numerical minority, however, the Church of Ireland remained the official state church until it was disestablishment on 1 January 1871, by the Liberal government under William Gladstone.

Today the Church of Ireland is, after the Roman Catholic Church, the second-largest church in the island of Ireland. It is governed by a General Synod of clergy and laity and organized into twelve dioceses. It is led by the Archbishop of Armagh (Church of Ireland) (styled "Primate of All Ireland"), at present Alan Harper (archbishop); the church's other archbishop is Archbishop of Dublin (Church of Ireland) John Neill.

History Early history The Church of Ireland traces its origins back to the missions of Saint Patrick. As a monastically-centered institution, the early Celtic Church of Ireland had a unique calendar and usages, but was a full part of the wider Western Church.

In 1166, basing his action on the Papal Bull Laudabiliter, which was claimed to give him lordship over Ireland, Henry II of England came to Ireland and in 1171 made himself "Overlord" of Ireland.

Reformation and beyond In 1536, during the English Reformation, Henry VIII of England had the Irish Parliament declare him head of the Irish Church. When the Church of England was reformed under Edward VI of England so too did the Church of Ireland. All but two of the Irish bishops accepted the Elizabethan Religious Settlement and there is continuity and Apostolic succession in the Church of Ireland, separate from that of the Church of England and the Nag's Head Fable raised by the consecration of Matthew Parker as archbishop of Canterbury.

The established church in Ireland underwent a period of more radical Calvinist doctrine than occurred in England. James Ussher (later Archbishop of Armagh (Church of Ireland)) authored the Irish Articles, adopted in 1615. In 1634 the Irish Convocation adopted the English Thirty-Nine Articles alongside the Irish Articles. After the Restoration of 1660, it seems that the Thirty-Nine Articles took precedence, and remain the official doctrine of the Church of Ireland even after disestablishment.http://www.ccel.org/ccel/schaff/creeds1.ix.vi.x.html

The Church of Ireland undertook the first publication of Scripture in Irish. The first Irish translation of the New Testament was begun by Nicholas Walsh, Bishop of Ossory, who worked on it until his untimely death in 1585. The work was continued by John Kearny, his assistant, and Dr. Nehemiah Donellan, Archbishop of Tuam, and it was finally completed by William O'Domhnuill (William Daniell, Archbishop of Tuam in succession to Donellan). Their work was printed in 1602. The work of translating the Old Testament was undertaken by William Bedel (1571-1642), Bishop of Kilmore, who completed his translation within the reign of Charles I of England, although it was not published until 1680 (in a revised version by Narcissus Marsh (1638-1713), Archbishop of Dublin). William Bedell had undertaken a translation of the Book of Common Prayer in 1606. An Irish translation of the revised prayer book of 1662 was effected by John Richardson (1664 - 1747) and published in 1712.

However, the delay in providing scripture and liturgy in the vernacular of the majority of the population caused a rift between the English-speaking minority who mostly adhered to the Church of Ireland or to Presbyterianism and the Irish-speaking majority who remained faithful to the Latin liturgy of Roman Catholicism, which remained the majority denomination in Ireland.

From the birth of the United Kingdom during the 18th century.As before the Reformation, some clergymen of the Church of Ireland sat as Lord Spiritual in the Irish House of Lords; under the provisions of the Act of Union 1800, one archbishop and three bishops chosen by rotation would be Lords Spiritual in the newly united United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland House of Lords in Westminster, joining the two archbishops (Archbishop of Canterbury and Archbishop of York) and the twenty-four bishops from the Church of England.

In 1833 the British Government proposed the Irish Church Measure to reduce the 22 archbishops and bishops who oversaw the Anglican minority in Ireland to a total of 12 by amalgamating sees and to use the revenues saved for the use of parishes. This sparked the Oxford Movement movement and had wide repercussions in the Anglican Communion.

As the official established church, the Church of Ireland was funded partially by tithes imposed on all Irish citizens, irrespective of the fact that it counted only a minority of the populace among its adherents; these were a source of much resentment which occasionally boiled over, as in the "Tithe War" of 1831-36. Eventually, the tithes were ended, replaced with a lower levy called the tithe rentcharge. The Irish Church Disestablishment Act 1869 came into effect in 1871 and ended the role of the Church of Ireland as state church. This terminated both state support and parliamentary authority over its governance, and taking into government ownership much church property. Compensation was provided to clergy, but many parishes faced great difficulty in local financing after the loss of rent-generating lands and buildings. The Church of Ireland made provision in 1870 for its own government, led by the General Synod, and financial management by the Representative Church Body. With disestablishment, the last remnant of tithes were abolished and the church's representation in the House of Lords also ceased.

Like other Irish churches, the Church of Ireland did not divide when Ireland was Partition of Ireland in 1920, and continues to be governed on an all-island basis.

The Church today church, a modern replica of an early church with a Irish round tower, is built on the reputed spot of Saint Patrick first church in Ireland.The contemporary Church of Ireland, despite having a number of High Church (often described as Anglo-Catholic) parishes, is generally on the Low Church end of the spectrum of world Anglicanism. Historically, it had little of the difference in churchmanship between parishes characteristic of other Anglican Provinces, although a number of markedly liberal, High Church or Evangelicalism parishes have developed in recent decades. It was the second province of the Anglican Communion after the Anglican Church of New Zealand (1857) to adopt, on its 1871 disestablishment, synodical government, and was one of the first provinces to ordain women to the priesthood, in 1991.

The Church of Ireland has two cathedrals in Dublin: within the walls of the old city is Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin, the seat of the Archbishop of Dublin, and just outside the old walls is St. Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin, which the church designated as a National Cathedral for Ireland in 1870. Cathedrals also exist in the other dioceses. The church operates a seminary, the Church of Ireland Theological College, in Rathgar, in the south inner suburbs of Dublin, and the church's central offices are in Rathmines, adjacent to the Church of Ireland College of Education.

Membership The Church of Ireland experienced major decline during the 20th century, both in Northern Ireland, where 75% of its members live, and in the Republic of Ireland. The latest census records from the Republic (2006), however, include a rare instance of relative increase.Church membership increased by 8.7% in the period 2002-2006, during which the population as a whole increased by only 8.2%. Republic of Ireland Central Statistics Office, Census 2006: Principal Demographic Results. This is perhaps partly explained by the number of Anglican immigrants who have moved to Ireland recently.

Structure The polity of the Church of Ireland is Episcopalian church governance, which is the same as other Anglican churches. The church maintains the traditional structure dating to pre-Reformation times, a system of geographical parishes organized into dioceses. There are List of Church of Ireland dioceses, each headed by a bishop. The leader of the five southern bishops is the Archbishop of Dublin (Church of Ireland); that of the seven northern ones the Archbishop of Armagh (Church of Ireland); these are styled Primate of Ireland and Primate of All Ireland respectively, suggesting the ultimate seniority of the latter; although he has relatively little absolute authority, the archbishop of Armagh is respected as the church's general leader and spokesman.

Canon law and church policy are decided by the church's General Synod, and changes in policy must be passed by both the House of Bishops and the House of Representatives (Clergy and Laity). Important changes, e.g. the decision to ordain female priests, must be passed by two-thirds majorities. While the House of Representatives always votes publicly, often by orders, the House of Bishops has tended to vote in private, coming to a decision before matters reach the floor of the Synod. This practice has been broken only once, when in 1999 the House of Bishops voted unanimously in public to endorse the efforts of the Archbishop of Armagh, the Diocese of Armagh and the Standing Committee of the General Synod of the Church of Ireland in their attempts to resolve the crisis at the Church of the Ascension at Drumcree, near Portadown.

Worship and liturgy The Church of Ireland embraces three orders of ministry: deacon, priest (referred to as presbyter) and bishop.

Book of Common Prayer The first translation of the Book of Common Prayer was published in 1606. An Irish translation of the revised prayer book of 1662 was published in 1712.

Doctrine and practice The center of the Church of Ireland's teaching is the life and resurrection of Jesus Christ. The basic teachings of the church, or catechism, includes:

The threefold sources of authority in Anglicanism are scripture, tradition, and reason. These three sources uphold and critique each other in a dynamic way. This balance of scripture, tradition and reason is traced to the work of Richard Hooker, a sixteenth century apologist. In Hooker's model, scripture is the primary means of arriving at doctrine and things stated plainly in scripture are accepted as true. Issues that are ambiguous are determined by tradition, which is checked by reason. Anglican Listening Detail on how scripture, tradition, and reason work to "uphold and critique each other in a dynamic way".

Ecumenical relations Like many other Anglican churches, the Church of Ireland is a member of many ecumenical bodies, including the World Council of Churches and the Irish Council of Churches. They are also a member of the Porvoo Communion.

See also

References

Further reading

External links

The Church of Ireland () is an autonomous province of the Anglican Communion, operating seamlessly across the border between the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland. Like other Anglican churches, it considers itself to be both Catholicism and Protestant Reformation.http://www.ireland.anglican.org/index.php?do=about The Church of Ireland: About us

When the Church of England broke with the Pope and communion with the Roman Catholic Church, the Church in Ireland likewise underwent reformation, with those adhering to the new rules becoming the State Church and holding possession of official Church property, even as doctrine was changed, while the majority of the population remained loyal to the Roman Catholic Church and continue to do so to this day. As the reformed Church of Ireland took possession of practically all official Church property, it retained and retains a great repository of religious architecture and other items.

Despite its numerical minority, however, the Church of Ireland remained the official state church until it was disestablishment on 1 January 1871, by the Liberal government under William Gladstone.

Today the Church of Ireland is, after the Roman Catholic Church, the second-largest church in the island of Ireland. It is governed by a General Synod of clergy and laity and organized into twelve dioceses. It is led by the Archbishop of Armagh (Church of Ireland) (styled "Primate of All Ireland"), at present Alan Harper (archbishop); the church's other archbishop is Archbishop of Dublin (Church of Ireland) John Neill.

History Early history The Church of Ireland traces its origins back to the missions of Saint Patrick. As a monastically-centered institution, the early Celtic Church of Ireland had a unique calendar and usages, but was a full part of the wider Western Church.

In 1166, basing his action on the Papal Bull Laudabiliter, which was claimed to give him lordship over Ireland, Henry II of England came to Ireland and in 1171 made himself "Overlord" of Ireland.

Reformation and beyond In 1536, during the English Reformation, Henry VIII of England had the Irish Parliament declare him head of the Irish Church. When the Church of England was reformed under Edward VI of England so too did the Church of Ireland. All but two of the Irish bishops accepted the Elizabethan Religious Settlement and there is continuity and Apostolic succession in the Church of Ireland, separate from that of the Church of England and the Nag's Head Fable raised by the consecration of Matthew Parker as archbishop of Canterbury.

The established church in Ireland underwent a period of more radical Calvinist doctrine than occurred in England. James Ussher (later Archbishop of Armagh (Church of Ireland)) authored the Irish Articles, adopted in 1615. In 1634 the Irish Convocation adopted the English Thirty-Nine Articles alongside the Irish Articles. After the Restoration of 1660, it seems that the Thirty-Nine Articles took precedence, and remain the official doctrine of the Church of Ireland even after disestablishment.http://www.ccel.org/ccel/schaff/creeds1.ix.vi.x.html

The Church of Ireland undertook the first publication of Scripture in Irish. The first Irish translation of the New Testament was begun by Nicholas Walsh, Bishop of Ossory, who worked on it until his untimely death in 1585. The work was continued by John Kearny, his assistant, and Dr. Nehemiah Donellan, Archbishop of Tuam, and it was finally completed by William O'Domhnuill (William Daniell, Archbishop of Tuam in succession to Donellan). Their work was printed in 1602. The work of translating the Old Testament was undertaken by William Bedel (1571-1642), Bishop of Kilmore, who completed his translation within the reign of Charles I of England, although it was not published until 1680 (in a revised version by Narcissus Marsh (1638-1713), Archbishop of Dublin). William Bedell had undertaken a translation of the Book of Common Prayer in 1606. An Irish translation of the revised prayer book of 1662 was effected by John Richardson (1664 - 1747) and published in 1712.

However, the delay in providing scripture and liturgy in the vernacular of the majority of the population caused a rift between the English-speaking minority who mostly adhered to the Church of Ireland or to Presbyterianism and the Irish-speaking majority who remained faithful to the Latin liturgy of Roman Catholicism, which remained the majority denomination in Ireland.

From the birth of the United Kingdom during the 18th century.As before the Reformation, some clergymen of the Church of Ireland sat as Lord Spiritual in the Irish House of Lords; under the provisions of the Act of Union 1800, one archbishop and three bishops chosen by rotation would be Lords Spiritual in the newly united United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland House of Lords in Westminster, joining the two archbishops (Archbishop of Canterbury and Archbishop of York) and the twenty-four bishops from the Church of England.

In 1833 the British Government proposed the Irish Church Measure to reduce the 22 archbishops and bishops who oversaw the Anglican minority in Ireland to a total of 12 by amalgamating sees and to use the revenues saved for the use of parishes. This sparked the Oxford Movement movement and had wide repercussions in the Anglican Communion.

As the official established church, the Church of Ireland was funded partially by tithes imposed on all Irish citizens, irrespective of the fact that it counted only a minority of the populace among its adherents; these were a source of much resentment which occasionally boiled over, as in the "Tithe War" of 1831-36. Eventually, the tithes were ended, replaced with a lower levy called the tithe rentcharge. The Irish Church Disestablishment Act 1869 came into effect in 1871 and ended the role of the Church of Ireland as state church. This terminated both state support and parliamentary authority over its governance, and taking into government ownership much church property. Compensation was provided to clergy, but many parishes faced great difficulty in local financing after the loss of rent-generating lands and buildings. The Church of Ireland made provision in 1870 for its own government, led by the General Synod, and financial management by the Representative Church Body. With disestablishment, the last remnant of tithes were abolished and the church's representation in the House of Lords also ceased.

Like other Irish churches, the Church of Ireland did not divide when Ireland was Partition of Ireland in 1920, and continues to be governed on an all-island basis.

The Church today church, a modern replica of an early church with a Irish round tower, is built on the reputed spot of Saint Patrick first church in Ireland.The contemporary Church of Ireland, despite having a number of High Church (often described as Anglo-Catholic) parishes, is generally on the Low Church end of the spectrum of world Anglicanism. Historically, it had little of the difference in churchmanship between parishes characteristic of other Anglican Provinces, although a number of markedly liberal, High Church or Evangelicalism parishes have developed in recent decades. It was the second province of the Anglican Communion after the Anglican Church of New Zealand (1857) to adopt, on its 1871 disestablishment, synodical government, and was one of the first provinces to ordain women to the priesthood, in 1991.

The Church of Ireland has two cathedrals in Dublin: within the walls of the old city is Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin, the seat of the Archbishop of Dublin, and just outside the old walls is St. Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin, which the church designated as a National Cathedral for Ireland in 1870. Cathedrals also exist in the other dioceses. The church operates a seminary, the Church of Ireland Theological College, in Rathgar, in the south inner suburbs of Dublin, and the church's central offices are in Rathmines, adjacent to the Church of Ireland College of Education.

Membership The Church of Ireland experienced major decline during the 20th century, both in Northern Ireland, where 75% of its members live, and in the Republic of Ireland. The latest census records from the Republic (2006), however, include a rare instance of relative increase.Church membership increased by 8.7% in the period 2002-2006, during which the population as a whole increased by only 8.2%. Republic of Ireland Central Statistics Office, Census 2006: Principal Demographic Results. This is perhaps partly explained by the number of Anglican immigrants who have moved to Ireland recently.

Structure The polity of the Church of Ireland is Episcopalian church governance, which is the same as other Anglican churches. The church maintains the traditional structure dating to pre-Reformation times, a system of geographical parishes organized into dioceses. There are List of Church of Ireland dioceses, each headed by a bishop. The leader of the five southern bishops is the Archbishop of Dublin (Church of Ireland); that of the seven northern ones the Archbishop of Armagh (Church of Ireland); these are styled Primate of Ireland and Primate of All Ireland respectively, suggesting the ultimate seniority of the latter; although he has relatively little absolute authority, the archbishop of Armagh is respected as the church's general leader and spokesman.

Canon law and church policy are decided by the church's General Synod, and changes in policy must be passed by both the House of Bishops and the House of Representatives (Clergy and Laity). Important changes, e.g. the decision to ordain female priests, must be passed by two-thirds majorities. While the House of Representatives always votes publicly, often by orders, the House of Bishops has tended to vote in private, coming to a decision before matters reach the floor of the Synod. This practice has been broken only once, when in 1999 the House of Bishops voted unanimously in public to endorse the efforts of the Archbishop of Armagh, the Diocese of Armagh and the Standing Committee of the General Synod of the Church of Ireland in their attempts to resolve the crisis at the Church of the Ascension at Drumcree, near Portadown.

Worship and liturgy The Church of Ireland embraces three orders of ministry: deacon, priest (referred to as presbyter) and bishop.

Book of Common Prayer The first translation of the Book of Common Prayer was published in 1606. An Irish translation of the revised prayer book of 1662 was published in 1712.

Doctrine and practice The center of the Church of Ireland's teaching is the life and resurrection of Jesus Christ. The basic teachings of the church, or catechism, includes:

The threefold sources of authority in Anglicanism are scripture, tradition, and reason. These three sources uphold and critique each other in a dynamic way. This balance of scripture, tradition and reason is traced to the work of Richard Hooker, a sixteenth century apologist. In Hooker's model, scripture is the primary means of arriving at doctrine and things stated plainly in scripture are accepted as true. Issues that are ambiguous are determined by tradition, which is checked by reason. Anglican Listening Detail on how scripture, tradition, and reason work to "uphold and critique each other in a dynamic way".

Ecumenical relations Like many other Anglican churches, the Church of Ireland is a member of many ecumenical bodies, including the World Council of Churches and the Irish Council of Churches. They are also a member of the Porvoo Communion.

See also

References

Further reading

External links



Church of Ireland - A province of the Anglican Communion
The official web site of the Irish branch of the worldwide anglican communion. Welcome, overview, structures, press, resources and a list of parishes.

Church of Ireland - A province of the Anglican Communion
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Church of Ireland Gazette Home Page
The journal of the church, provides current and archived issues with access to a range of sections complete with pictures.

Church of Ireland - A province of the Anglican Communion
The Official Home Pages of the Church of Ireland, part of the World Wide Anglican Communion.

Church of Ireland - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Church of Ireland (Irish: Eaglais na hÉireann) is an autonomous province of the Anglican Communion, operating seamlessly across the border between the Republic of Ireland and ...

CIYD - Church of Ireland Youth Department
Constituted by the general synod to be responsible for the development and co-ordination of youth ministry within Ireland.

Church of Ireland
The Church of Ireland was the state, or established, church in Ireland until 1871. From 1634 individual parishes were required to keep records of ...

All Saints Church of Ireland on the web
Includes news, history, prayer topics, worship times and events.

Dublin and Glendalough | Welcome to the United Dioceses of Dublin and ...
You are very welcome to the webpages of the United Dioceses of Dublin and Glendalough, part of the Church of Ireland (an Anglican/Episcopal Church and a member of the Anglican and ...

Welcome to The Non-Subscribing Presbyterian Church of Ireland
The history of Presbyterianism in Ireland can be traced back to 1613. The first Non-Subscribing Presbytery was formed in 1725 and our ...

 

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