Protestantism

===Anglicanism===
{{Main|Anglicanism}}
[[Anglicanism]] consists of the [[Church of England]] and churches which are historically tied to it or hold similar beliefs, worship practices and church structures.<ref name="cofe">{{cite web|url=http://www.cofe.anglican.org/faith/anglican/|title=What it means to be an Anglican|publisher=Church of England|access-date=16 March 2009|archive-date=30 August 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110830191043/http://www.churchofengland.org/our-faith/being-an-anglican.aspx|url-status=live}}</ref> The word ''Anglican'' originates in ''{{lang|la|ecclesia anglicana}}'', a [[medieval Latin]] phrase dating to at least 1246 that means the ''English Church''. There is no single "Anglican Church" with universal juridical authority, since each national or regional church has full [[autonomy]]. As the name suggests, the communion is an association of churches in [[full communion]] with the [[archbishop of Canterbury]]. The great majority of Anglicans are members of churches which are part of the international [[Anglican Communion]],<ref name="acomm">{{cite web| url=http://www.anglicancommunion.org/ | title=The Anglican Communion official website – homepage | access-date=16 March 2009| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20090319004737/http://www.anglicancommunion.org/| archive-date= 19 March 2009 | url-status=live}}</ref> which has 85&nbsp;million adherents.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.anglicancommunion.org/tour/index.cfm|title=Member Churches|first=Anglican Communion|last=Office|website=www.anglicancommunion.org|access-date=4 June 2015|archive-date=7 March 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150307165129/http://www.anglicancommunion.org/tour/index.cfm|url-status=live}}</ref>

The [[Church of England]] declared its independence from the Catholic Church at the time of the [[Elizabethan Religious Settlement]].<ref name="CTS">{{Cite book|last=Green |first=Jonathon |author-link=Jonathon Green |title=Chasing the Sun: Dictionary Makers and the Dictionaries They Made|year=1996 |edition=1st US |publisher=[[Henry Holt (publisher)|Henry Holt]] |location=New York |isbn=978-0-8050-3466-0 |pages=58–59 |chapter=Chapter 2: The Middle Ages}}</ref> Many of the new Anglican formularies of the mid-16th century corresponded closely to those of contemporary Reformed tradition. These reforms were understood by one of those most responsible for them, the then archbishop of Canterbury, [[Thomas Cranmer]], as navigating a middle way between two of the emerging Protestant traditions, namely Lutheranism and Calvinism.<ref>[[Diarmaid MacCulloch]], ''Thomas Cranmer: A Life'', Yale University Press, p. 617 (1996).</ref> By the end of the century, the retention in Anglicanism of many traditional liturgical forms and of the episcopate was already seen as unacceptable by those promoting the most developed Protestant principles.

Unique to Anglicanism is the ''[[Book of Common Prayer]]'', the collection of services that worshippers in most Anglican churches used for centuries. While it has since undergone many revisions and Anglican churches in different countries have developed other service books, the Book of Common Prayer is still acknowledged as one of the ties that bind the Anglican Communion together.
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File:Thomas Cranmer by Gerlach Flicke.jpg|[[Thomas Cranmer]], one of the most influential figures in shaping Anglican theology and self-identity.
File:Book of Common Prayer 1760.jpg|The various editions of the ''[[Book of Common Prayer]]'' contain the words of structured services of worship in the Anglican Church.
File:Westminster abbey west.jpg|[[Coronation of the British monarch|British coronations]] are held in [[Westminster Abbey]], a [[royal peculiar]] under the direct jurisdiction of the [[Monarch of the United Kingdom|monarch]].
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