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Religion in the United Kingdom

Index Religion in the United Kingdom

Religion in the United Kingdom, and in the countries that preceded it, has been dominated for over 1,400 years by various forms of Christianity. [1]

129 relations: Abiezer Coppe, Act of Supremacy 1558, Act of Uniformity, Act of Uniformity 1558, Act of Uniformity 1662, Al-Britannia, My Country, Amport House, Apostolic Vicariate of England, Apostolic Vicariate of the London District, Archbishop of Canterbury, Archbishop of Westminster, Bahá'í Faith in the United Kingdom, Baptists Together, Blasphemy law in the United Kingdom, Board of Deputies of British Jews, British Bangladeshi, British Jamaican, British people, Buddhism in the United Kingdom, Canterbury Cathedral, Catholic emancipation, Census (Amendment) Act 2000, Chapel Royal, Christianity by country, Christianity in Ireland, Christianity in Norway, Christianity in the United States, Church attendance, Church of Scotland, Church of Scotland Act 1921, Common Worship, Congé d'Élire, Covenanter, Culture of Scotland, Culture of the United Kingdom, Cytûn, Czechs in the United Kingdom, Day One Christian Ministries, Declaration of Indulgence, Demographics of atheism, Disenfranchising Act, Disestablishmentarianism, Disruption of 1843, Dissenter, Dissolution of the Monasteries, Dorset, Elizabethan Religious Settlement, English Dissenters, Exclusion Crisis, Exhortation and Litany, ..., Fifth Monarchists, Finsbury Park attack, Five Mile Act 1665, Free Church of Scotland (1843–1900), Free Presbyterian Church of Ulster, Freedom of religion in the United Kingdom, General Assembly of Unitarian and Free Christian Churches, German Church, Liverpool, Ghetto, Greek Orthodox Church of St Nicholas, Toxteth, Hinduism in the United Kingdom, History of the United Kingdom, Index of Christianity-related articles, Irish Church Act 1869, Irreligion in the United Kingdom, Islam in the United Kingdom, Jenny Geddes, John Foxe, List of Anglican diocesan bishops in Britain and Ireland, List of Anglican dioceses in the United Kingdom and Ireland, List of bishops in the Church of England, List of British Muslims, List of cathedrals in England and Wales, List of Protestant martyrs of the English Reformation, Marprelate Controversy, Martin Marprelate, Martyrs' Memorial, Oxford, Methodist Church of Great Britain, Millennials, More popular than Jesus, Muggletonianism, Nantlais Williams, Nation state, Neopaganism in the United Kingdom, Nonconformist, Norwegian Fishermans' Church, Liverpool, Oath of Supremacy, Orthodoxy in the United Kingdom, Our Lady of Ipswich, Outline of Guernsey, Outline of religion, Outline of the United Kingdom, Oxford Martyrs, Pembrokeshire Action To Combat Hardship, Penal law (British), Prayer Book Rebellion, Presbyterian Church in Ireland, Primus of the Scottish Episcopal Church, Princes Road Synagogue, Regnans in Excelsis, Religion in England, Religion in Europe, Religion in Great Britain, Religion in Northern Ireland, Religion in Scotland, Religion in Sussex, Religion in the European Union, Religion in Wales, Religious discrimination against Neopagans, Royal Air Force Chaplains Branch, Royal Army Chaplains' Department, Royal Declaration of Indulgence, Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha, Sanquhar, Seekers, Songs of Praise, Statute in Restraint of Appeals, Synod of Whitby, The Skipper's Dream, The Woolf Institute, Thirty-nine Articles, Toleration Act 1689, United Free Church of Scotland, United Kingdom, United Presbyterian Church (Scotland), United Reformed Church, Walsingham, Welsh Methodist revival, Westminster Confession of Faith. Expand index (79 more) »

Abiezer Coppe

Abiezer Coppe (1619 – 1672) was one of the English Ranters and a writer of prophetic religious pamphlets.

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Act of Supremacy 1558

The Act of Supremacy (1 Eliz 1 c 1), also referred to as the Act of Supremacy 1558, is an act of the Parliament of England, passed under the auspices of Elizabeth I. It replaced the original Act of Supremacy 1534 issued by Elizabeth's father, Henry VIII, which arrogated ecclesiastical authority to the monarchy, and which had been repealed by Mary I. Along with the Act of Uniformity 1558 it made up what is generally referred to as the Elizabethan Religious Settlement.

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Act of Uniformity

Over the course of English parliamentary history there were a number of Acts of Uniformity.

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Act of Uniformity 1558

The Act of Uniformity 1558 (1 Eliz 1 c 2) was an Act of the Parliament of England.

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Act of Uniformity 1662

The Act of Uniformity 1662 (14 Car 2 c 4) is an Act of the Parliament of England.

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Al-Britannia, My Country

Al-Britannia, My Country is a 2017 book by Scottish journalist and author James Fergusson investigating Islam in the United Kingdom.

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Amport House

Amport House, currently the British Armed Forces Chaplaincy Centre (AFCC), is a manor house (at) in the village of Amport, near Andover, Hampshire.

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Apostolic Vicariate of England

The Apostolic Vicariate of England (and Wales) was an ecclesiastical jurisdiction of the Roman Catholic Church in England and Wales.

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Apostolic Vicariate of the London District

The Apostolic Vicariate of the London District was an ecclesiastical jurisdiction of the Roman Catholic Church in England and Wales.

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Archbishop of Canterbury

The Archbishop of Canterbury is the senior bishop and principal leader of the Church of England, the symbolic head of the worldwide Anglican Communion and the diocesan bishop of the Diocese of Canterbury.

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Archbishop of Westminster

The Archbishop of Westminster heads the Roman Catholic Diocese of Westminster, in England.

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Bahá'í Faith in the United Kingdom

The Bahá'í Faith in the United Kingdom started in 1898 when Mrs.

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Baptists Together

Baptists Together (officially The Baptist Union of Great Britain) is the association of Baptist churches in England and Wales.

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Blasphemy law in the United Kingdom

This article describes the blasphemy law in the United Kingdom.

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Board of Deputies of British Jews

The Board of Deputies of British Jews (historically London Board of Deputies and London Committee of Deputies of British Jews) is the main representative body of British Jews.

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British Bangladeshi

British Bangladeshis (ব্রিটিশ বাংলাদেশি) are people of Bangladeshi origin who have attained citizenship in the United Kingdom, through immigration and historical naturalisation.

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British Jamaican

British Jamaican (or Jamaican British) people are British people who were born in Jamaica or who are of Jamaican descent.

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British people

The British people, or the Britons, are the citizens of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, the British Overseas Territories, and the Crown dependencies.

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Buddhism in the United Kingdom

Buddhism in the United Kingdom has a small but growing number of supporters which, according to a Buddhist organisation, is mainly because of the result of conversion.

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Canterbury Cathedral

Canterbury Cathedral in Canterbury, Kent, is one of the oldest and most famous Christian structures in England.

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Catholic emancipation

Catholic emancipation or Catholic relief was a process in the Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland in the late 18th century and early 19th century that involved reducing and removing many of the restrictions on Roman Catholics introduced by the Act of Uniformity, the Test Acts and the penal laws.

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Census (Amendment) Act 2000

The Census (Amendment) Act 2000 (2000 c. 24) and Census (Amendment) (Scotland) Act 2000 (2000 asp 3) are acts of the Parliaments of the United Kingdom and Scotland, respectively.

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Chapel Royal

In both the United Kingdom and Canada, a Chapel Royal refers not to a building but to a distinct body of priests and singers who explicitly serve the spiritual needs of the sovereign.

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Christianity by country

 As of the year 2015, Christianity has more than 2.3 billion adherents, out of about 7.5 billion people.

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Christianity in Ireland

Christianity is and has been the largest religion in Ireland.

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Christianity in Norway

Christianity is the largest religion in Norway.

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Christianity in the United States

Christianity is the most adhered to religion in the United States, with 75% of polled American adults identifying themselves as Christian in 2015.

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Church attendance

Church attendance is a central religious practice for many Christians; some Christian denominations, such as the Catholic Church require church attendance on the Lord's Day (Sunday); the Westminster Confession of Faith is held by the Reformed Churches and teaches first-day Sabbatarianism, thus proclaiming the duty of public worship in keeping with the Ten Commandments.

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Church of Scotland

The Church of Scotland (The Scots Kirk, Eaglais na h-Alba), known informally by its Scots language name, the Kirk, is the national church of Scotland.

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Church of Scotland Act 1921

The Church of Scotland Act 1921 is an Act of the British Parliament.

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Common Worship

Common Worship is the name given to the series of services authorised by the General Synod of the Church of England and launched on the first Sunday of Advent in 2000.

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Congé d'Élire

Congé d'Elire (Law French: congé d'eslire, "leave" or "permission to choose") was a license from the Crown in England issued under the great seal to the dean and chapter of the cathedral church of a diocese, authorizing them to elect a bishop or archbishop, as the case may be, upon the vacancy of any episcopal or archi-episcopal see in England.

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Covenanter

The Covenanters were a Scottish Presbyterian movement that played an important part in the history of Scotland, and to a lesser extent that of England and Ireland, during the 17th century.

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Culture of Scotland

The culture of Scotland refers to the patterns of human activity and symbolism associated with Scotland and the Scottish people.

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Culture of the United Kingdom

The culture of the United Kingdom is influenced by the UK's history as a developed state, a liberal democracy and a great power; its predominantly Christian religious life; and its composition of four countries—England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland—each of which has distinct customs, cultures and symbolism.

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Cytûn

Cytûn: Churches Together in Wales is an ecumenical Christian organisation which was formed in 1990 as successor to the former Council of Churches for Wales.

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Czechs in the United Kingdom

Czechs in the United Kingdom refers to the phenomenon of Czech people migrating to the United Kingdom from the Czech Republic or from the political entities that preceded it, such as Czechoslovakia.

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Day One Christian Ministries

Day One Christian Ministries, formerly known as the Lord's Day Observance Society (LDOS), is a Christian organisation based in the United Kingdom that lobbies for no work on Sunday, the day that many Christians celebrate as the Sabbath, a day of rest.

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Declaration of Indulgence

The Declaration of Indulgence or Declaration for Liberty of Conscience was a pair of proclamations made by James II of England and VII of Scotland in 1687.

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Demographics of atheism

Accurate demographics of atheism are difficult to obtain since conceptions of atheism vary across different cultures and languages from being an active concept to being unimportant or not developed.

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Disenfranchising Act

The Disenfranchising Act was an Act of Parliament of the Parliament of Ireland passed in 1727, one of a series of Penal Laws, prohibiting all Roman Catholics from voting.

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Disestablishmentarianism

Disestablishmentarianism refers to campaigns to sever links between church and state, particularly in relation to the Church of England as an established church within the United Kingdom.

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Disruption of 1843

The Disruption of 1843 was a schism or division within the established Church of Scotland, in which 450 evangelical ministers of the Church broke away, over the issue of the Church's relationship with the State, to form the Free Church of Scotland.

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Dissenter

A dissenter (from the Latin dissentire, "to disagree") is one who disagrees in matters of opinion, belief, etc.

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Dissolution of the Monasteries

The Dissolution of the Monasteries, sometimes referred to as the Suppression of the Monasteries, was the set of administrative and legal processes between 1536 and 1541 by which Henry VIII disbanded monasteries, priories, convents and friaries in England and Wales and Ireland, appropriated their income, disposed of their assets, and provided for their former personnel and functions.

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Dorset

Dorset (archaically: Dorsetshire) is a county in South West England on the English Channel coast.

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Elizabethan Religious Settlement

The Elizabethan Religious Settlement, which was made during the reign of Elizabeth I, was a response to the religious divisions in England during the reigns of Henry VIII, Edward VI and Mary I. This response, described as "The Revolution of 1559", was set out in two Acts.

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English Dissenters

English Dissenters or English Separatists were Protestant Christians who separated from the Church of England in the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries.

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Exclusion Crisis

The Exclusion Crisis ran from 1679 through 1681 in the reign of King Charles II of England, Scotland and Ireland.

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Exhortation and Litany

The Exhortation and Litany published in 1544 is the earliest officially authorized vernacular service in English.

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Fifth Monarchists

The Fifth Monarchists or Fifth Monarchy Men were an extreme Puritan sect active from 1649 to 1660 during the Interregnum, following the English Civil Wars of the 17th century.

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Finsbury Park attack

The Finsbury Park attack was a vehicle-ramming attack in Finsbury Park, London, England, on 19 June 2017.

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Five Mile Act 1665

The Five Mile Act, or Oxford Act, or Nonconformists Act 1665, is an Act of the Parliament of England (17 Charles II c. 2), passed in 1665 with the long title "An Act for restraining Non-Conformists from inhabiting in Corporations".

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Free Church of Scotland (1843–1900)

The Free Church of Scotland was a Scottish denomination which was formed in 1843 by a large withdrawal from the established Church of Scotland in a schism or division known as the Disruption of 1843.

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Free Presbyterian Church of Ulster

The Free Presbyterian Church of Ulster is a Christian denomination founded by Ian Paisley in 1951.

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Freedom of religion in the United Kingdom

The right to freedom of religion in the United Kingdom is provided for in all three constituent legal systems, by devolved, national, European, and international law and treaty.

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General Assembly of Unitarian and Free Christian Churches

The General Assembly of Unitarian and Free Christian Churches (GAUFCC or colloquially British Unitarians) is the umbrella organisation for Unitarian, Free Christians and other liberal religious congregations in the United Kingdom and Ireland.

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German Church, Liverpool

The German Church (Deutsche Kirche) in Liverpool is in Bedford Street South/ Canning Street and is part of the.

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Ghetto

A ghetto is a part of a city in which members of a minority group live, typically as a result of social, legal, or economic pressure.

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Greek Orthodox Church of St Nicholas, Toxteth

The Greek Orthodox Church of St Nicholas is a Grade II Listed building in Toxteth, Liverpool, situated at the junction of Berkley Street and Princes Road.

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Hinduism in the United Kingdom

For a specific subregion breakdowns of Hinduism in the United Kingdom, see: Hinduism in England, Hinduism in Scotland, Hinduism in Wales and Hinduism in Northern Ireland Hinduism has had a presence in the United Kingdom since the early 19th century, as at the time India was part of the British Empire.

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History of the United Kingdom

The history of the United Kingdom as a unified state can be treated as beginning in 1707 with the political union of the kingdoms of England and Scotland, into a united kingdom called Great Britain.

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Index of Christianity-related articles

Articles related to Christianity include.

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Irish Church Act 1869

The Irish Church Act 1869 (32 & 33 Vict. c. 42) is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom passed during William Ewart Gladstone's administration and which came into force on 1 January 1871.

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Irreligion in the United Kingdom

Irreligion in the United Kingdom refers to the secularity or atheism, or, more generally, the lack of a religion in the country.

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Islam in the United Kingdom

Islam is the second largest religion in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, with results from the United Kingdom Census 2011 giving the UK Muslim population in 2011 as 2,786,635, 4.4% of the total population.

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Jenny Geddes

Jenny Geddes (c. 1600 – c. 1660) was a Scottish market-trader in Edinburgh who is alleged to have thrown her stool at the head of the minister in St Giles' Cathedral in objection to the first public use of an Episcopalian Book of Common Prayer in Scotland.

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John Foxe

John Foxe (1516/17 – 18 April 1587) was an English historian and martyrologist, the author of Actes and Monuments (popularly known as Foxe's Book of Martyrs), an account of Christian martyrs throughout Western history, but emphasizing the sufferings of English Protestants and proto-Protestants from the 14th century through the reign of Mary I. Widely owned and read by English Puritans, the book helped to mould British popular opinion about the Catholic Church for several centuries.

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List of Anglican diocesan bishops in Britain and Ireland

This page lists Bishops and Archbishops in the Church of England, the Church in Wales, the Scottish Episcopal Church and the Church of Ireland.

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List of Anglican dioceses in the United Kingdom and Ireland

The following lists the Anglican dioceses in the Church of England, the Church in Wales, the Scottish Episcopal Church and the Church of Ireland.

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List of bishops in the Church of England

The active bishops of the Church of England are usually either diocesan bishops or suffragan bishops.

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List of British Muslims

This is an incomplete list of notable British Muslims.

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List of cathedrals in England and Wales

This is a list of cathedrals in England and Wales and the Crown Dependencies of the Isle of Man, Gibraltar and those in the Channel Islands, by country.

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List of Protestant martyrs of the English Reformation

Protestants were executed under heresy laws during persecutions against Protestant religious reformers for their religious denomination during the reigns of Henry VIII (1509–1547) and Mary I of England (1553–1558).

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Marprelate Controversy

The Marprelate Controversy was a war of pamphlets waged in England and Wales in 1588 and 1589, between a puritan writer who employed the pseudonym Martin Marprelate, and defenders of the Established Church.

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Martin Marprelate

Martin Marprelate (sometimes printed as Martin Mar-prelate and Marre–Martin) was the name used by the anonymous author or authors of the seven Marprelate tracts that circulated illegally in England in the years 1588 and 1589.

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Martyrs' Memorial, Oxford

The Martyrs' Memorial is a stone monument positioned at the intersection of St Giles', Magdalen Street and Beaumont Street, just outside Balliol College, Oxford, England.

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Methodist Church of Great Britain

The Methodist Church of Great Britain is the fourth-largest Christian denomination in Britain and the mother church to Methodists worldwide.

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Millennials

Millennials (also known as Generation Y) are the generational demographic cohort following Generation X. There are no precise dates for when this cohort starts or ends; demographers and researchers typically use the early 1980s as starting birth years and the mid-1990s to early 2000s as ending birth years.

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More popular than Jesus

"We're more popular than Jesus" was a remark made by the Beatles' John Lennon during a 1966 interview, in which he argued that Christianity would end before rock music.

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Muggletonianism

The Muggletonians, named after Lodowicke Muggleton, were a small Protestant Christian movement which began in 1651 when two London tailors announced they were the last prophets foretold in the biblical Book of Revelation.

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Nantlais Williams

William Nantlais Williams (30 December 1874 – 18 June 1959), better known simply as Nantlais, was a Welsh poet and a Presbyterian Christian minister who played a prominent role in the 1904-1905 Welsh Revival.

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Nation state

A nation state (or nation-state), in the most specific sense, is a country where a distinct cultural or ethnic group (a "nation" or "people") inhabits a territory and have formed a state (often a sovereign state) that they predominantly govern.

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Neopaganism in the United Kingdom

The Neo-pagan movement in the United Kingdom is primarily represented by Wicca and Witchcraft religions, Druidry, and Heathenry.

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Nonconformist

In English church history, a nonconformist was a Protestant who did not "conform" to the governance and usages of the established Church of England.

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Norwegian Fishermans' Church, Liverpool

Norwegian Fishermans’ Church in Liverpool, England, is one of 29 churches organised by Sjømannskirken (Norwegian Church Abroad), a voluntary organisation serving the religious needs of Norwegians abroad on behalf of the Church of Norway.

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Oath of Supremacy

The Oath of Supremacy required any person taking public or church office in England to swear allegiance to the monarch as Supreme Governor of the Church of England.

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Orthodoxy in the United Kingdom

The term Orthodoxy in the United Kingdom may refer to.

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Our Lady of Ipswich

Our Lady of Ipswich (also known as Our Lady of Grace) was a popular English Marian shrine before the English Reformation.

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Outline of Guernsey

The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to Guernsey: The Bailiwick of Guernsey – British Crown dependency located in the Channel Islands off the coast of Normandy.

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Outline of religion

The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to religion: Religion – organized collection of beliefs, cultural systems, and world views that relate humanity to an order of existence.

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Outline of the United Kingdom

The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland; a sovereign state in Europe, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK), or Britain.

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Oxford Martyrs

The Oxford Martyrs were Protestants tried for heresy in 1555 and burnt at the stake in Oxford, England, for their religious beliefs and teachings, during the Marian persecution in England.

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Pembrokeshire Action To Combat Hardship

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Penal law (British)

In English history, penal law refers to a specific series of laws that sought to uphold the establishment of the Church of England against Protestant nonconformists and Catholicism, by imposing various forfeitures, civil penalties, and civil disabilities upon these dissenters.

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Prayer Book Rebellion

The Prayer Book Rebellion, Prayer Book Revolt, Prayer Book Rising, Western Rising or Western Rebellion (Rebellyans an Lyver Pejadow Kebmyn) was a popular revolt in Devon and Cornwall in 1549.

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Presbyterian Church in Ireland

The Presbyterian Church in Ireland (PCI; Eaglais Phreispitéireach in Éirinn, Ulster-Scots: Prisbytairin Kirk in Airlann) is the largest Presbyterian denomination in Ireland, and the largest Protestant denomination in Northern Ireland.

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Primus of the Scottish Episcopal Church

The Primus of the Scottish Episcopal Church, styled "The Most Reverend the Primus of the Scottish Episcopal Church", is the presiding bishop of the Scottish Episcopal Church.

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Princes Road Synagogue

Princes Road Synagogue, located in Toxteth, Liverpool in England, is the home of the Liverpool Old Hebrew Congregation.

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Regnans in Excelsis

Regnans in Excelsis ("reigning on high") was a papal bull issued on 25 February 1570 by Pope Pius V declaring "Elizabeth, the pretended Queen of England and the servant of crime", to be a heretic and releasing all her subjects from any allegiance to her, even when they had "sworn oaths to her", and excommunicating any that obeyed her orders.

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Religion in England

Religion in England is dominated by the Church of England (Anglicanism), the established church of the state whose Supreme Governor is the Monarch of England.

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Religion in Europe

Religion in Europe has been a major influence on today's society art, culture, philosophy and law.

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Religion in Great Britain

Religion in Great Britain may refer to.

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Religion in Northern Ireland

Christianity is the largest religion in Northern Ireland.

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Religion in Scotland

Religion in Scotland includes all forms of religious organisation and practice.

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Religion in Sussex

Religion in Sussex has been dominated over the last 1,400 years by Christianity.

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Religion in the European Union

Religion in the European Union is diverse.

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Religion in Wales

Christianity is the largest religion in Wales.

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Religious discrimination against Neopagans

Neopagans are a religious minority in every country where they exist and have been subject to religious discrimination and/or religious persecution.

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Royal Air Force Chaplains Branch

The Royal Air Force Chaplains Branch provides military chaplains for the Royal Air Force of the United Kingdom.

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Royal Army Chaplains' Department

The Royal Army Chaplains' Department (RAChD) is an all-officer corps that provides ordained clergy to minister to the British Army.

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Royal Declaration of Indulgence

The Royal Declaration of Indulgence was Charles II of England's attempt to extend religious liberty to Protestant nonconformists and Roman Catholics in his realms, by suspending the execution of the Penal Laws that punished recusants from the Church of England.

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Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha

Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha is a British Overseas Territory located in the South Atlantic and consisting of the island of Saint Helena, Ascension Island and the archipelago of Tristan da Cunha.

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Sanquhar

Sanquhar (Sanchar, Seanchair) is a town on the River Nith in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland.

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Seekers

The Seekers, or Legatine-Arians as they were sometimes known, were an English Protestant dissenting group that emerged around the 1620s, probably inspired by the preaching of three brothers – Walter, Thomas, and Bartholomew Legate.

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Songs of Praise

Songs of Praise is a BBC Television religious programme that presents Christian hymns that first aired in October 1961.

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Statute in Restraint of Appeals

The Ecclesiastical Appeals Act 1532 (24 Hen 8 c 12), also called the Statute in Restraint of Appeals and the Act of Appeals, was an Act of the Parliament of England.

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Synod of Whitby

The Synod of Whitby (664 A.D.) was a Northumbrian synod where King Oswiu of Northumbria ruled that his kingdom would calculate Easter and observe the monastic tonsure according to the customs of Rome, rather than the customs practised by Irish monks at Iona and its satellite institutions.

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The Skipper's Dream

The Skipper’s Dream is a Geordie folk song written in the 19th century by T Moor, in a style deriving from music hall.

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The Woolf Institute

The Woolf Institute is an academic institute in Cambridge, England, dedicated to the study of relations between Jews, Christians and Muslims.

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Thirty-nine Articles

The Thirty-nine Articles of Religion (commonly abbreviated as the Thirty-nine Articles or the XXXIX Articles) are the historically defining statements of doctrines and practices of the Church of England with respect to the controversies of the English Reformation.

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Toleration Act 1689

The Toleration Act 1689 (1 Will & Mary c 18), also referred to as the Act of Toleration, was an Act of the Parliament of England, which received the royal assent on 24 May 1689.

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United Free Church of Scotland

The United Free Church of Scotland (UF Church; An Eaglais Shaor Aonaichte, The Unitit Free Kirk o Scotland) is a Scottish Presbyterian denomination formed in 1900 by the union of the United Presbyterian Church of Scotland (or UP) and the majority of the 19th century Free Church of Scotland.

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United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain,Usage is mixed with some organisations, including the and preferring to use Britain as shorthand for Great Britain is a sovereign country in western Europe.

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United Presbyterian Church (Scotland)

The United Presbyterian Church of Scotland (1847–1900) was a Scottish Presbyterian denomination.

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United Reformed Church

The United Reformed Church (URC) is a Christian church in the United Kingdom.

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Walsingham

Walsingham is a village (actually two conjoined villages: Little Walsingham and Great Walsingham) in the English county of Norfolk.

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Welsh Methodist revival

The Welsh Methodist revival was an evangelical revival that revitalised Christianity in Wales during the 18th century.

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Westminster Confession of Faith

The Westminster Confession of Faith is a Reformed confession of faith.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religion_in_the_United_Kingdom

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