High-churchman Definition

noun

A member of the Church of England who prioritises those aspects of Anglicanism which distinguish it from Calvinism and other Protestant denominations, and which it has in common with Catholicism, especially the authority of the priesthood and the importance of church ritual.

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Noun

Singular:
high-churchman
Plural:
high-churchmen

High-churchman Sentence Examples

  • Stubbs was a High Churchman whose doctrines and practice were grounded on learning and a veneration for antiquity.

  • As an ecclesiastic he was a High Churchman of the old school.

  • The High Churchman of the "Catholic" type is further differentiated from the "oldfashioned High Churchman" of what is sometimes described as the "high and dry" type of the period anterior to the Oxford Movement.

  • He delivered episcopal charges to the clergy of Connecticut and New York entitled The Churchman (5859) and The High Churchman Vindicated (1826), in which he accepted the name "high churchman," and stated and explained his principles "in distinction from the corruptions of the Church of Rome and from the Errors of Certain Protestant Sects."

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