Example sentences of "of the [noun] of england " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dr Runcie has gone out of his way on this visit to concede many of the doctrinal points and practices which large elements of the Church of England have traditionally found offensive in Roman Catholicism . |
| 2 | It does not imply political supremacy , and does not suggest that the Pope should administer the affairs of the Church of England , ’ he said . |
| 3 | A short time ago , it would have been difficult to imagine that the Conservative Party in Parliament would be in open revolt against bishops of the Church of England . |
| 4 | IN THE recent report of the Church of England 's Doctrine Commission , We Believe in God , the doctrine of divine impassibility , that God can not suffer , is described as ‘ the most venerable theological position ’ and so it has generally been when Christians have endeavoured to think or speak about the nature of their God . |
| 5 | Neo-Gothic in turrets and corridors and battlements , it was founded by Bishop Samuel Wilberforce of Oxford opposite the front gate of his palace , and then developed by two of the leaders of the Church of England in Queen Victoria 's days into the foremost training college of that Catholic tradition . |
| 6 | It was then the custom of the Church of England that a curate should be ordained to be a deacon ( the lowest order of the ministry ) whose duty was to help the parish priest in all his pastoral duties but who could not perform the priestly acts of celebrating the sacrament or giving absolution or blessing . |
| 7 | Here were two future leaders of the Church of England , the one a man of supreme common sense , the other a mystic ; the one a conservative and establishment-man , the other a liberal and a reformer — they were fated never to understand each other . |
| 8 | He widened it from a training for future priests of the Church of England to a course which anyone might wish to read for their education . |
| 9 | Secondly , he had published doctrine at variance with the Athanasian Creed and the Homilies of the Church of England and his teaching was at variance with that of the Archbishop of Canterbury and other bishops . |
| 10 | The editor of the Church of England Newspaper remarked that the overzealousness of Ramsey 's friends did him a disservice by making him the representative of an intolerant school of thought and by inflating his reputation beyond what his record would endorse . |
| 11 | A glory of the Church of England was its comprehensiveness . |
| 12 | The State made him the ecclesiastical head of the Church of England by trampling on the opinions of the relevant ecclesiastical authority . |
| 13 | She was moved by his address : not so much by the declaration of the reformed and Catholic nature of the Church of England , nor by his condemnation of racialism , nor by his challenge to the State to give the Church more liberty to follow its vocation in worship ; but by his gratitude at the growing longing within the Church for a deeper life of prayer . |
| 14 | Leaders of the Church of England have also attacked the ‘ hardness ’ of the government , only to be dismissed in return as ‘ cuckoos ’ ( see below , p. 289 ) . |
| 15 | Equally notable has been the worsening relationship with leaders of the Church of England — for so long known as the Tory party at prayer . |
| 16 | For example , he was able to reconcile membership of the Church of England ( rather High ) with belonging to such occult groups as the Order of the Golden Dawn . |
| 17 | Please pray that godly and suitable people will be chosen to help steer the affairs of the Church of England . |
| 18 | However , it is a moot point as to how representative of the Church of England the General Synod is , or indeed any other of the layers — Diocesan or Deanery . |
| 19 | Dr Runcie said he put his trust in the resilience of the Church of England to handle the debate . |
| 20 | George Carey , installed as Archbishop of Canterbury on March 27th , belongs to that wing of the Church of England . |
| 21 | A marriage must be celebrated either in the presence of a clergyman of the Church of England , or ( since 1836 ) of a Registrar of Marriages , or ( since 1898 ) of an ‘ authorized person ’ , who is usually the minister authorized by the trustees of a Nonconformist place of worship . |
| 22 | When in February 1983 the General synod of the Church of England debated the nuclear threat , only the then Archbishop of York , Dr Blanch , thought fit to remind his hearers that the early church had not only held that the world would soon end , but had regarded this as a desirable consummation . |
| 23 | Methven was later to create an embarrassing scandal among the godly , when he was publicly deposed for adultery in 1562 — a sin which did not prevent him finding a niche among the ministry of the Church of England — but in 1558 he was a major asset to the Protestants , preaching not only in Dundee but , during the summer months , in other parts of Angus and in Fife . |
| 24 | Perennial favourites included ‘ overlapping ’ in towns and villages and , tied to this , the creation of ‘ Free Church parishes ’ , urban work among the unchurched millions , the role of women in Nonconformist church life ( there was very little ) , the need for house-to-house surveys , the present state of the Church of England ( normally the increasing power of the Ritualists and their threat to England 's ‘ Protestant heritage ’ ) and political questions such as land redistribution in the villages or , especially , education . |
| 25 | The success of the Anglo-Catholics and the revival of the Church of England produced by both Evangelicals and High Churchmen did not fit into the plan prepared for the new century : it is no coincidence that both Anglo-Catholicism and the new Free Church Councils were mainly confined to England 's towns and cities . |
| 26 | It is interesting to note , in the context of the present nationalist uprising in Scotland , that while the Queen is Defender of the Faith ( ironically , a title first bestowed on Henry VIII by the Pope ) and Head of the Church of England , she is only a member of the Church of Scotland . |
| 27 | His services have been engaged by Canon Trevor Pitt , principal of the ordination course for members of the Church of England , United Reformed Church and Methodist Church . |
| 28 | Henry VIII became the supreme head of the Church of England and , between 1530 and 1539 , the Roman Catholic monastic foundations in the land were dissolved , the Crown claiming the extensive lands which brought considerable revenue to the King . |
| 29 | The Triennial Act 1694 required a new Parliament to be summoned every three years , and in 1701 , the Act of Settlement required all future monarchs to be members of the Church of England . |
| 30 | In February the committee issued a statement deploring Ian Paisley 's campaign against the visit of the Church of England Bishop of Ripon . |