High Church

Of or pertaining to or favoring the party called the High Church or their doctrines or policy See High Church under High a...

Low church

Not placing a high estimate on ecclesiastical organizations or forms applied especially to Episcopalians and opposed to high church See High Church under High...

A portion of the Church of England consisting of persons who claim to hold a position in respect to doctrine and fellowship intermediate between the High Church party and the Low Church or evangelical party The term has been applied to other bodies of men holding liberal or comprehensive views of Christian doctrine and fellowship...

High churchism

The principles of the high church party...

High churchman

One who holds high church principles...

Church of Scotland

Church of Scotland. The authority and jurisdiction of the Pope were abolished in 1567, and since then, except for some intervals of first, Presbytery has been the form of Church Government in Scotland. The Church has independent power to legislate and to adjudicate finally in all matters of doctrine, worship, government, and discipline within itself. Its Supreme Court is the General Assembly, which consists of ministers and elders elected by the Presbyteries, Universities, and the Royal Burghs and by the Church in India. Its sittings are attended by a Lord High Commissioner, representing the King, and it is presided over by a Moderator, who is nominated each year by a selection committee. The tenure of ecclesiastical property and endowments was reorganized by the Church of Scotland (Property and Endowments) Act, 1925 (15 & 16 Geo. 5, c. 33), the general effect of which was to transfer all ecclesiastical property and endowments, as well as the responsibility, for their maintenance and c...

Retrochoir

Any extension of a church behind the high altar as a chapel also in an apsidal church all the space beyond the line of the back or eastern face of the altar...

Lord High Commissioner

Lord High Commissioner, the representative of the King at the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland...

Irvingite

The common designation of a member of a sect founded by the Rev Edward Irving about 1830 who call themselves the Catholic Apostolic Church They are highly ritualistic in worship have an elaborate hierarchy of apostles prophets etc and look for the speedy coming of Christ...

Prelatist

One who supports of advocates prelacy or the government of the church by prelates hence a high churchman...

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