Church of England

===Union with the Church of Ireland===
By the Fifth Article of the [[Acts of Union 1800|Union with Ireland 1800]], the Church of England and [[Church of Ireland]] were united into "one Protestant Episcopal church, to be called, the United Church of England and Ireland".<ref>{{cite book |last1=Pickering |first1=Danby |title=The Statutes at Large from the Magna Charta, to the End of the Eleventh Parliament of Great Britain, Anno 1761 [continued to 1806]. By Danby Pickering |date=1799 |publisher=J. Bentham |page=653 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=R1pRAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA653 |language=en}}</ref> Although "the continuance and preservation of the said united church ... [was] deemed and taken to be an essential and fundamental part of the union",<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.rahbarnes.co.uk/Union/ActOfUnion%28Ireland%29.php | title=An Act for the Union of Great Britain and Ireland 1800 – Article Fifth (sic) | url-status=dead | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180324152426/http://www.rahbarnes.co.uk/Union/ActOfUnion(Ireland).php | archive-date=24 March 2018}}</ref> the [[Irish Church Act 1869]] separated the Irish part of the church again and disestablished it, the Act coming into effect on 1 January 1871.