Talk:Church of England

message: I'm not an expert on the CofE. Looking at Doncaster Minster I started to wonder about the Major Churches Network: the minster is listed in the  template but there seems no reliable source which confirms the membership of that network. See Talk:Major Churches Network for discussion: please contribute there.
But I then found a listing of the churches designated "Major Parish Church", all 312 of them, in the Church Heritage Record, along with some other interesting "types" such as Festival Church. I've added a section to this article, expanding "Online Directory" to "Online Directories". It may be that there is some more appropriate place for this information: if so, of course please move the content (using  to retain attribution), with appropriate navigation to make it easy to find. PamD 09:02, 9 December 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Major Parish Churches etc 

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message: I feel it is too soon to report a schism of the Global South and to give it prominence in the lede. Disregarding the writers of headlines in the sources, we have only a dissenting statement by a number of prelates. The ABC source says "The move brings a schism in the communion closer" and that nothing has formally changed. -- Wire723 (talk) 18:36, 22 February 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: Looking at the specific language of the GSFA’s statement (https://www.thegsfa.org/_files/ugd/6e992c_04583b0134b94b9b8e4f81b36fa2420f.docx?dn=Statement%20of%20GSFA%20Primates%20on%20the%20CofE%27s%20Decision%20regarding%20Blessing%20of%20Same%20Sex%20Unions_20), it seems quite clear that they are declaring themselves to be separate from the Church of England and the Archbishop of Canterbury. The CoE’s response is that nothing can change without the meeting of their organizing committees, but a communion is only as strong as the recognition of it from both sides, and the GSFA’s statement is the head of 10 of the 42 constitute churches rejecting the communion.  JedBartlet1776 19:54, 23 February 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: Removal of the "schism" subsection by another editor 4 days ago has not been contested. I removed the similar paragraph from the intro in line with the principle that the intro is a summary of the rest of the article. -- Wire723 (talk) 09:22, 27 February 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Schism of Global South Fellowship 

message: Re the recent revert of 'less than 1 million' under the 'congregations' field - the editor who inserted this meant to say that there were fewer than 1 million worshippers rather than congregatiosn in the sense of worship groups. He or she has earlier tried to isnert this number under a non-existent 'worshippers' field in the infobox, which I reverted. So the figure is plausible, not being meant to be the same as the number of churches; but there is nowhere to put it (and it is unsourced although the article sourced figures suggets it isn't unrealistic). Sbishop (talk) 10:07, 7 July 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: I see, so the "under 1 million" is the active members, a counterpoint to the 26 million baptised people listed as members in the infobox. I suggest to drop the 26 million from the infobox as not particularly relevant, and replace with the 1.1 million from the 2017 reference, but annotated "(2017, attending at least once a month)". -- Wire723 (talk) 11:06, 7 July 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: That would seem the best compromise, yes. Sbishop (talk) 11:35, 7 July 2023 (UTC)
thread_title: Number of congregations/worshippers

message: The recent edit to include mention of Protestant and Catholic practises (and note the correct British spelling of "practises" when its used as a verb) was not only historically and theologically correct, it was also balanced and appropriate (unlike the previous version). The Church of England is not just a "Protestant church" (despite what some may want to believe) and many Anglicans reject that description. Whatever it may have been at various times in history, Anglicanism is now properly understood as being a distinct Christian tradition of its own which combines strong elements of both the Reformed and Catholic traditions. The present wording should not be reverted or changed without consensus. Anglicanus (talk) 04:38, 9 May 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Protestant AND Catholic