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24 August 2016
S Bartholomew’s Day
The Day of the Great Ejection, in 1662, of those two or three thousand Protestant Ministers who would not accept Sacerdotal Ordination by a Bishop in the Church of England; a day also to remember because of the concomitant ‘sacerdotalising’ changes to her rites of Ordination. This initiated an era only ended by the unhappy ‘Porvoo Agreement’ in which the Church of England herself formally declared, as Leo XIII had declared a century earlier, that her Orders were identical with those of Continental Protestantism (1995).
Granting the views expressed by Dermot MacCulloch about the Protestant character of the Elizabethan Reformation, should we see S Bartholomew’s Day as the moment when the Church of England definitively and formally set out upon a course distinguishing herself from Common Protestantism? A course upon which she remained until the events of last two or three decades concluded it (Women priests, Porvoo, Anglican-Methodist Covenant, Women Bishops).
August 24 1662: one of a number of significant steps in the long journey from Elizabeth Tudor’s coup d’etat to Benedict XVI’s Ordinariate.
Dies calculo notandus.
24 August 2016
S Bartholomew’s Day
The Day of the Great Ejection, in 1662, of those two or three thousand Protestant Ministers who would not accept Sacerdotal Ordination by a Bishop in the Church of England; a day also to remember because of the concomitant ‘sacerdotalising’ changes to her rites of Ordination. This initiated an era only ended by the unhappy ‘Porvoo Agreement’ in which the Church of England herself formally declared, as Leo XIII had declared a century earlier, that her Orders were identical with those of Continental Protestantism (1995).
Granting the views expressed by Dermot MacCulloch about the Protestant character of the Elizabethan Reformation, should we see S Bartholomew’s Day as the moment when the Church of England definitively and formally set out upon a course distinguishing herself from Common Protestantism? A course upon which she remained until the events of last two or three decades concluded it (Women priests, Porvoo, Anglican-Methodist Covenant, Women Bishops).
August 24 1662: one of a number of significant steps in the long journey from Elizabeth Tudor’s coup d’etat to Benedict XVI’s Ordinariate.
Dies calculo notandus.
