Church of Ireland

Church of Ireland Eaglais na hÉireann
General
Belief	Anglicanism
organization	Episcopal Church
distribution	Ireland island
Primate from all over Ireland	Archbishop Richard Lionel Clarke
membership	Anglican Community
founding
founder	Claims for himself the episcopal succession of St. Patrick . Founded as a state church in 1536 under King Henry VIII . Separated from the state in 1871 under Queen Victoria .
Establishment date	1871 (no longer a state church)
numbers
Members	378,000
Others
Website	ireland.anglican.org

The Church of Ireland ("Church of Ireland", Irish : Eaglais na hÉireann , pronunciation : / ˈagləʃ nə ˈheːrʲən / ) is a member church of the Anglican Communion . It has around 390,000 believers - significantly fewer than the Catholic Church in Ireland - of whom around two thirds live in Northern Ireland .

organization

See also : Anglican Community # Organization and Dissemination

Dioceses of the Church of Ireland

The church comprises two ecclesiastical provinces:

Ecclesiastical Province of Armagh

The first is the Anglican ecclesiastical province of Armagh , which is also the seat of the Anglican Primate of all Ireland , with the dioceses :

coat of arms	diocese	cathedral		Location of the dioceses on the island	website
	Armagh Diocese	St Patrick's Cathedral , Armagh			armagh.anglican.org
	Diocese of Clogher, County Tyrone	St Macartan's Cathedral, Clogher			clogher.anglican.org
		St Macartin's Cathedral , Enniskillen
	Diocese of Connor	Christ Church Cathedral, Lisburn			connordiocese.org.uk
		St Anne's Cathedral, Belfast
	Diocese of Derry and Raphoe (Counties Londonderry and Donegal)	St Columb's Cathedral , Derry			derryandraphoe.org
		St Eunan's Cathedral, Raphoe
	Diocese of Down and Dromore (Counties Down and Tyrone)	Cathedral of the Holy and Undivided Trinity, Downpatrick			downanddromore.org
		Cathedral of Christ the Redeemer, Dromore
	Diocese of Kilmore , Elphin and Ardagh	St Fethlimidh's Cathedral, Kilmore			dkea.ie
		St John the Baptist Cathedral, Sligo
	Diocese of Tuam , Killala and Achonry (Counties Galway and Mayo)	St. Mary's Cathedral , Tuam			tuam.anglican.org
		St. Patrick's Cathedral, Killala

Ecclesiastical Province of Dublin

The second is the Anglican ecclesiastical province of Dublin, seat of the Anglican Primate of the Republic of Ireland with the dioceses

coat of arms	diocese	cathedral		Location of the dioceses on the island	website
	Diocese of Dublin and Glendalough	Christ Church Cathedral , Dublin			dublin.anglican.org
	Cashel and Ossory Diocese	St. John's Cathedral, Cashel			cashel.anglican.org
		Christ Church Cathedral, Waterford
		St. Carthage's Cathedral , Lismore
		St. Canice's Cathedral , Kilkenny
		Ferns Cathedral, Ferns
		St Laserian's Cathedral, Old Leighlin
	Diocese of Cork , Cloyne and Ross	Saint Fin Barre's Cathedral, Cork			cork.anglican.org
		Cathedral of St. Fachtna , Rosscarbery
		St. Colman's Cathedral, Cloyne
	Diocese of Limerick and Killaloe	St Mary's Cathedral, Limerick			limerick.anglican.org
		Cathedral of St. Flannan , Killaloe
		Cathedral of St Brendan, Clonfert
	Diocese of Meath and Kildare	St Patrick's Cathedral, Trim			meathandkildare.org
		Cathedral of St. Brigid, Kildare

Its highest authority is the General Synod, which the Representative Church Body (RCB) maintains as a permanent organ. This includes the 12 bishops of this church, 12 members elected by the clergy, 24 lay representatives elected by the dioceses and 12 members appointed by the RCB.

history

In 1536 King Henry VIII of England broke with the papacy and therefore with the Catholic Church . Since Heinrich Also as 1541 King of Ireland was crowned, Ireland was one from this time by personal union formally to England. As a sister church of the newly founded Church of England , the Church of Ireland was created under his successors . In the following decades all of Ireland's churches and cathedrals passed into their possession. In addition, a large number of monasteries were razed . The Church of Ireland profited to a large extent from the political, social and cultural dominance of the Protestants in Ireland that was now beginning . Especially after the adoption of the penal law ( Penal Laws ) against the Catholic Church and the Protestant Free Churches in the 1690s was the Church of Ireland was almost the only church in Ireland who work and build without restrictions. Since these penal laws also applied in England and Wales , their position roughly corresponded to that of the Church of England there. As a result of the union of Great Britain and Ireland in 1800, the two state churches were temporarily unified. Unlike in England, the autochthonous Irish population opposed the ecclesiastical supremacy of the English kings with a large majority and remained loyal to the Catholic underground church despite the Anglican parish compulsion .

As an indirect consequence of Catholic emancipation , the previously outstanding position of the Church of Ireland was weakened. This was removed from the budget of the Church of England with the Irish Church Act 1869 , the law came into force on January 1, 1871. At the same time it lost its official status as a state church . The previous financing of the church by paying tithes, which affected all citizens of Ireland, was abolished; Catholics and members of free churches had to pay tithing to the Anglican Church of Ireland. The Irish Church then stopped sending members to the House of Lords. The division of the island of Ireland into the Republic of Ireland in 1922 and Northern Ireland , which is still legally linked to Great Britain, had no direct organizational influence on the Church of Ireland ; she is still responsible for all of Ireland.

Anglican Church of Ireland today

The Church of Ireland is a member of the Porvoo Fellowship and has agreed full communion with these churches . It was one of the first Anglican churches to allow women to be ordained in 1991 . Because of their dominant position in Ireland for centuries, the largest and most imposing churches and cathedrals built before 1800 in many Irish cities still belong to the Church of Ireland , while the Catholic Church built new structures in the 19th century. Because of the relatively small proportion of Anglicans in the total population, these churches, which are actually too large, are rarely filled with people during church services .

Michael Jackson has been Archbishop of Dublin and Bishop of Glendalough since 2011 .

In September 2013, Pat Storey , the new director of the Diocese of Meath and Kildare, was elected for the first time in the history of the Church of Ireland a woman to a bishopric.

See also

• Anglican Cathedrals in the Republic of Ireland
• Anglican Cathedrals in Northern Ireland
• Primates of the Church of Ireland
• Religion in Northern Ireland
• Religion in Ireland

Web links

• Official website

Individual evidence

1. ↑ http://www.ireland.anglican.org/index.php?do=about
2. ↑ Pat Storey: First Anglican bishop appointed in Ireland . Spiegel Online, September 20, 2013, accessed on the same day.