Anglo-Catholicism

Anglo-Catholicism is a tradition within Anglicanism that emphasizes the church’s catholic heritage, sacramental worship, apostolic succession, and continuity with pre-Reformation Christianity.

Anglicanism: A Christian tradition that developed from the Church of England and includes churches in the Anglican Communion. Anglo-Catholicism is a tradition within this broader communion.
John Henry Newman: An Anglican theologian and Oxford Movement leader who converted to Roman Catholicism in 1845. His writings helped launch the movement before his departure from Anglicanism.
High church: A style of Anglican churchmanship emphasizing liturgical form, ecclesiastical authority, and sacramental practice. It overlaps with Anglo-Catholic practice but does not necessarily affirm its full theology.
Evangelical Anglicanism: A movement within Anglicanism emphasizing biblical authority, personal conversion, and the proclamation of the gospel. Its priorities often differ from Anglo-Catholic emphases on sacramental worship and tradition.
Catholicity: The quality of belonging to the universal Christian church across time, place, and tradition. Anglo-Catholics stress the church’s continuity with the universal church.
Edward Bouverie Pusey: An Oxford theologian and leading member of the nineteenth-century Oxford Movement. He sustained the movement’s sacramental theology after Newman’s conversion.
Eucharist: The Christian rite of bread and wine commemorating Jesus’s Last Supper and understood by many traditions as sacramental. Its centrality and sacramental interpretation are defining features of Anglo-Catholic worship.
Roman Catholic Church: The worldwide Christian church in communion with the bishop of Rome, the pope. Anglo-Catholics affirm much Catholic heritage while remaining within Anglican churches.
Apostolic succession: The transmission of ministerial authority through a succession of bishops traced to the apostles. It grounds Anglo-Catholic claims about episcopal ministry and historical continuity.
John Keble: An English Anglican priest and poet whose 1833 sermon helped inaugurate the Oxford Movement. His sermon gave an early public signal of resistance to state control of the church.

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