Church of England

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The Church of England is the officially established Christian church in England, the "mother church" of the worldwide Anglican Communion and the oldest among the communion's nearly forty independent national churches.

The Church of England considers itself to be both catholic (as in Greek: καθολικός, meaning "pertaining to the whole") and reformed:

• Reformed insofar as many of the principles of the early Protestant reformers as well as the subsequent Protestant Reformation have influenced it and also insofar as it does not accept Papal authority;
• Catholic in that it views itself as being an unbroken continuation of both the early apostolic and later medieval universal church, rather than as a new formation. In its customs and liturgy it has retained more of that tradition than most other reformed churches.

(Source: Wikipedia)