The following terms have traditional meanings for the Anglican Church, and possibly beyond:
A churchman is in principle a member of a church congregation, in practice someone in holy orders.
A clergyman can be assumed to be in holy orders. The clergy is a term applied widely across many religions, while clergyman has connotations at least of Protestantism: while a Catholic, Anglo_Catholic or Orthodox Christian. A minister might belong to any Protestant church (not Catholic).
A pastor is the senior local minister (or priest), for example in a parish.
A preacher, from the Anglican point of view, is a colloquialism used for a clergyman rather than a formal title — or it may be someone who preaches.
A canon is a priest who is specifically attached to a cathedral and has some responsibility its organisation.
Anglican Church of Canada: General Synod Canon XXI: The Anglican Church of Canada affirms,…., that mmarriage is a lifelong union in faithful love, and that marriage vows are a commitment to this union, for better or for worse, to the exclusion of all others on either side.
Anglican Communion: 38 provinces of churches with historic links to the Church of England and adherence to the Lambeth Quadrilateral.
A report summarizing the work of the commission as it reflected on the nature of communion and how Anglicans might live together in the highest degree of communion possible while different views and practices concerning the ordination of women continued to be held within the Communion.
To form a general idea of Anglicanism as a religious system, it will be convenient to sketch it in rough outline as it exists in the Established Church of England, bearing in mind that there are differences in detail, mainly in liturgy and church-government, to be found in other portions of the Anglican communion.
By forming a catena of Anglican High Church divines of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries on one side, and a catena of certain Fathers on the other, it was hoped that a quasi-continuous chain of Catholic tradition could be made to connect the Anglican Church of their day with Catholic antiquity.
It was natural that this advance section of the Anglican Church should seek to ratify its position, and to escape from its fatal isolation, by desiring some scheme of corporate reunion and especially by endeavouring to obtain some recognition of the validity of its orders.
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