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this has puzzled m e for many years! in my earlier years I was a member of the Church of England (in England) in all others countries CofE are known as anglicans. I searched and asked many questions over the years as to how this came into being? No one has ever given me the ‘right’ answer.
 
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this has puzzled m e for many years! in my earlier years I was a member of the Church of England (in England) in all others countries CofE are known as anglicans. I searched and asked many questions over the years as to how this came into being? No one has ever given me the ‘right’ answer.
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A quick guess, with no evidence to support it, is that it comes from Anglo as in Anglo-Saxon.
 
Well England itself is really a shortened form of Angles-Land (or something similar to this). The Angles and the Saxons and the Normans were all tribes or races (not really sure which) which invaded the island of Britain at some time or another in the middle-ages. Generally modern English are referred to as “Anglo-Saxon” in terms of race, but again I’m not sure if “race” is really the right word here.

I guess Anglicans as referring to the CofE is really just a colloquial name, stealing the “Angl…” from the original word for the tribe/race. Oh, and I think all the tribes/races were either Vikings or Germanic. I know the Normans were Vikings, but I’m not sure about the others.

If you’re interested, I would look up a history of England to find out when all the various tribes/races came into England, and how it became the nation we all know and hate (yes that’s right, I’m Australian :p) today!

J/k btw. I guess I should say, “love to hate”, but you know what I mean!
 
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this has puzzled m e for many years! in my earlier years I was a member of the Church of England (in England) in all others countries CofE are known as anglicans. I searched and asked many questions over the years as to how this came into being? No one has ever given me the ‘right’ answer.
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The Communion to which the C of E belongs is the Anglican Communion.

At least in Scotland & the USA, the sister-Churches in those countries are called Episcopalian, after their mode of church government.

The Church of England, which is putatively the national Church of the nation of England, has been called Anglican since about 1828 - see Owen Chadwick, The Victorian Church (vol. 1) for further details.

IOW, all Episcopalians* are Anglican, but not all are Anglicans. Matters are complicated by the existence of Anglican Churches and groups (such as the TAC) which are not in communion with Canterbury - nonetheless, they are as truly Anglican Churches as any others. Not to be forgotten are the various indigenous Churches, such as the Reformed Episcopal Church of Spain.

*Episcopalians == “Christians in episcopal Churches”; the term is used in contradistinction to Presbyterian; the Scottish Episcopalians being those Protestant Christians who had retained government by bishops, instead of adopting government by presbyteries. Therefore, Lutherans are not (in that sense) Episcopalians, even though their Church government is episcopal.

See also: anglicancommunion.org/tour/index.cfm

and: anglicancommunion.org/index.cfm generally ##
 
Hope this helps. 🙂

Definitions****Anglican
adj
    1. Relating to the Church of England or another Church in communion with it.
noun
    1. A member of an Anglican Church.
Derivative: Anglicanism
noun

Etymology: 13c: from Latin Anglicanus, from Anglus English.

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Goodness me Trevor, you do not read history…

the Church of England came into being during the reign of Henry viii, the king of many wives in England because he needed a male heir ehich he was unable to produce so change wives. He was Catholic as was all England sort of and then was agreat deal of political machinations with the Pope and the the King which ended with the King demanding of his subjects an Oath which effectively made all his bishops capitulate in terror except the saintly John Fisher who was martyred and the his Lord High Canceholler Thomas More, who also was martyred rather than putting his King before His God.

King Henry thereby divorced England from the Church and so many many years of bloody martyredome ensured
 
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