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 ...
, also known as the Anglican Church, became the
established church
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of the
Province of Maryland
The Province of Maryland was an English and later British colony in North America that existed from 1632 until 1776, when it joined the other twelve of the Thirteen Colonies in rebellion against Great Britain and became the U.S. state of Maryland ...
through an Act of the General Assembly in 1692. Ten counties had been established in the colony at the time, and those counties were divided into
30 parishes. After 1692 but before the
American Revolution
The American Revolution was an ideological and political revolution that occurred in British America between 1765 and 1791. The Americans in the Thirteen Colonies formed independent states that defeated the British in the American Revolut ...
, 15 additional parishes were established.
The following is a sortable List of the post 1692 Anglican parishes in the Province of Maryland.
[Middleton, the Rev. Canon Arthur Pierce, Ph.D., ''Anglican Maryland, 1692-1792, Virginia Beach: The Donning Company, 1992'', p. 65, ]
See also
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References
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External links
Skirven, Percy G., The First Parishes of the Province of Maryland, Baltimore: Norman Remington Co., 1923
Church of England lists