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Public Worship Regulation Act 1874 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (345 words) |
 | The Public Worship Regulation Act 1874 was an English Act of Parliament, introduced as a Private Member's Bill by Archbishop of Canterbury Archibald Campbell Tait, to limit what he perceived as the growing ritualism of Anglo-Catholicism and the Oxford Movement within the Church of England. |
| Before the Act, worship in the Church of England had been regulated by the Court of Arches with appeal to the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council. |
| Many were scandalised by such parliamentary interference with the course of worship and, moreover, by the supervision of a secular court, even though bishops had discretion to order a stay of proceedings. |
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