The ''Church of England Newspaper'' is an independent

Anglican Anglicanism is a Western Christian tradition that has developed from the practices, liturgy, and identity of the Church of England following the English Reformation, in the context of the Protestant Reformation in Europe. It is one of th ...

weekly newspaper. Based in London, it is published on Fridays. The ''Church of England Newspaper'' is notable as the earliest church paper, and one of the oldest newspapers still in circulation. It is independent of the

Church of England The Church of England (C of E) is the established Christian church in England and the mother church of the international Anglican Communion. It traces its history to the Christian church recorded as existing in the Roman province of Britain ...

hierarchy. It normally adopts a broadly evangelical stance, as opposed to the historically

Anglo-Catholic Anglo-Catholicism comprises beliefs and practices that emphasise the Catholic heritage and identity of the various Anglican churches. The term was coined in the early 19th century, although movements emphasising the Catholic nature of Anglican ...

-leaning ''

Church Times The ''Church Times'' is an independent Anglican weekly newspaper based in London and published in the United Kingdom on Fridays. History The ''Church Times'' was founded on 7 February 1863 by George Josiah Palmer, a printer. It fought for the ...

''. The ''Church of England Newspaper'' has only had this name since 1949, as it has amalgamated with other publications over the years. It was founded in 1828 as ''The Record'', and continued under that title until 31 December 1948. At that point it merged with '' Church Family Newspaper'', which itself was first issued on 8 February 1894. '' The British Weekly: a journal of social and Christian progress'' was, from not long after its founding in 1886, "one of the most successful religious newspapers of its time" and "a major voice of the ‘

Nonconformist Conscience The Nonconformist conscience was the moralistic influence of the Nonconformist churches in British politics in the 19th and early 20th centuries. Moral outlook Historians group together certain historic Protestant groups in England as "Nonconfor ...

’ in late Victorian Britain". The author of ''Voices of Nonconformity: William Robertson Nicoll and the British Weekly'' (2011) asserts that that newspaper "acquired the ''Christian World'' in the 1960s, but in the 1970s, it passed into the ownership of the Christian Weekly Newspapers, the publishers of the ''Church of England Newspaper''." The paper was owned by the Conservative politician

John Cordle John Howard Cordle (11 October 1912 – 23 November 2004) was a British Conservative politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1959 to 1977. Life and career Cordle, the son of Ernest William Cordle, was educated at the City of London Sc ...

from 1946.

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