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The Anglican Communion uses the compass rose as its symbol, signifying its worldwide reach and decentralized nature. ...
The Archbishop of Canterbury is the spiritual leader and senior clergyman of the Church of England, recognized by convention as the head of the worldwide Anglican Communion. ...
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The Anglican Consultative Council is one of the four Instruments of Unity of the Anglican Communion. ...
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This box: view • talk • edit | The Community of the Resurrection is an Anglican religious community for men. It was founded in 1892 by Charles Gore with Walter Howard Frere (1863-1938, later Bishop of Truro) and four others. The term Anglican describes those people and churches following the religious traditions of the Church of England, especially following the Reformation. ...
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Statue of Charles Gore, outside St Philips Cathedral, Birmingham Charles Gore (born 1853 in Wimbledon; died January 17 (though usually commemorated on January 23), 1932) was an English divine and Anglican bishop. ...
The diocese of Truro is one of the younger dioceses of the Church of England having been formed in 1876. ...
Its mother house is the House of the Resurrection in Mirfield, West Yorkshire where the majority of its members now reside. Its rule is an attempt to create a communal life in which individual talents are given scope to develop. Members of the community commonly have the postnomial "CR". Mirfield is a town in West Yorkshire, England, near Dewsbury. ...
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Members of the Community take life vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience. For many years after its foundation, they only took annual vows since Charles Gore disapproved of life vows. Works
It has had an influence in excess of its numbers in the development of the Anglican Church in South Africa, especially in the ministry of Raymond Raynes CR and Trevor Huddleston CR in Sophiatown and in the influence of Huddleston and the Community of the Resurrection on Desmond Tutu. St John's College's existence (Johannesburg) and ethos are also almost solely due to its founding fathers; Nash, Thomson, Alston, Hill and at least eleven others, all of whom were community members. It has been a role model for many Southern African schools. Trevor Huddleston (June 15, 1913, â April 20, 1998), was an Anglican priest, one-time Archbishop of Mauritius and the Indian Ocean, and most famous for his anti-Apartheid activism. ...
Sophiatown was a lively, mostly-black suburb of Johannesburg, South Africa. ...
Desmond Mpilo Tutu (born 7 October 1931) is a South African cleric and activist who rose to worldwide fame during the 1980s as an opponent of apartheid. ...
St Johns College is a private school for boys in Houghton, Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa. ...
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The College of the Resurrection, Mirfield, was the first theological college in the Church of England to admit ordinands irrespective of their means. For a while, the community also managed Codrington College in Barbados. An Anglo-Catholic Anglican Theological School for the training of ordinands at Mirfield, West Yorkshire. ...
In general religious use, ordination is the process by which one is consecrated (set apart for the undivided administration of various religious rites). ...
Codrington College is an Anglican theological college in St. ...
Other influential members have included Robert Hugh Benson, John Neville Figgis, Edward Keble Talbot, Timothy Rees, Martin Jarrett-Kerr, Harry Williams, and David Lane. Robert Hugh Benson (born November 18, 1871; died October 19, 1914) was the youngest son of Edward White Benson, Archbishop of Canterbury, and younger brother of Edward Frederic Benson. ...
John Neville Figgis (1866 - 1919) was a historian, political philosopher and monk. ...
Visitors Robert Felkin, founder of the Stella Matutina, a splinter lodge of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, undertook a retreat at Mirfield in 1903 and seriously considered becoming a member of the community[1]. Robert William Felkin was a medical missionary and explorer, a ceremonial magician and member of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, a prolific author on Uganda and Central Africa, and early anthropologist, with an interest in ethno-medicine and tropical diseases. ...
The Stella Matutina was an initiatory Order dedicated to the dissemination of the traditional teachings of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn through the process of initiation. ...
The Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn (or, more commonly, the Golden Dawn) was a magical order of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, practicing a form of theurgy and spiritual development. ...
Dietrich Bonhoeffer visited CR Mirfield in the 1930's and, as a result, introduced the recitation of parts of Psalm 118 as part of the daily prayer of the seminary for the Confessing Church. Dietrich Bonhoeffer Dietrich Bonhoeffer [] (February 4, 1906 â April 9, 1945) was a German Lutheran pastor, theologian, participant in the German Resistance movement against Nazism, and a founding member of the Confessing Church. ...
Psalms (Tehilim תהילים, in Hebrew) is a book of the Hebrew Bible or Tanakh, and of the Old Testament of the Christian Bible. ...
The Confessing Church (Bekennende Kirche) was a Christian resistance movement in Nazi Germany. ...
Further reading - The Community of the Resurrection: A Centenary History by Alan Wilkinson, SCM Press, London, 1992.
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