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by scubabob on January 25th, 2009

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How is it that the Episcopal church is still under the Anglican Church? You'd think that having the Queen as defender of the faith is a little odd in their circumstance?

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  • by Seamus_M on June 14th, 2011

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    Every monarch in Europe or the Christian world since Constantine , or indeed since 33 AD, has been head of the Church in that the Monarch is chief magistrate. It doesn't give them the right to interfere in the spiritualities, but ensures that they, the church, stick to the law, just as all other bodies should do.
    In northern Italy and the City of Rome, the Pope was not only the Spiritual Head, but was also chief magistrate and Head of State. Are we to assume that he divorced himself from practical matters and simply kept to spiritual matters. We know he didn't. When Henry assumed the title of Head of the Church, it was insisted on by the Anglican Church, that this was alright ,'as far as the Law of Christ allows". The SEnate of Rome didn't put that proviso in for Italy!

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