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All Saints' Church, Leipzig
The All Saints Church in Leipzig – also ''Church of the Ascension'', ''All Saints' English and American Episcopal Church'', Germanized ''Anglikanische Kirche'' and ''Anglo-Amerikanische Kirche'' – was an Church of England, Anglican church building in the Bachviertel neighbourhood in the borough of Leipzig-Mitte.Christoph Kühn: Bachstraßenviertel und Musikviertel: eine historische und städtebauliche Studie, im Auftrag des Stadtplanungsamtes hrsg. von Pro Leipzig, Leipzig 1999, S. 14. History of the church Anglican community In the 19th century, a large number of English and American artists, students and business people lived in the cultural and Leipziger Messe, trade fair city of Leipzig. As a result, the first or regular Anglican services were held for the Anglo-American community as early as 1862/64.Matthias Gretzschel, Hartmut Mai: Kirchen in Leipzig, Schriften des Leipziger Geschichtsvereins N.F./Bd. 2, Sax-Verlag, Beucha 1993, pp. 32 f. Initially, the Lutheranism, Lu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Church Of England
The Church of England (C of E) is the State religion#State churches, established List of Christian denominations, Christian church in England and the Crown Dependencies. It is the mother church of the Anglicanism, Anglican Christian tradition, tradition, with foundational doctrines being contained in the ''Thirty-nine Articles'' and ''The Books of Homilies''. The Church traces its history to the Christian hierarchy recorded as existing in the Roman Britain, Roman province of Britain by the 3rd century and to the 6th-century Gregorian mission to Kingdom of Kent, Kent led by Augustine of Canterbury. Its members are called ''Anglicans''. In 1534, the Church of England renounced the authority of the Papacy under the direction of Henry VIII, beginning the English Reformation. The guiding theologian that shaped Anglican doctrine was the Reformer Thomas Cranmer, who developed the Church of England's liturgical text, the ''Book of Common Prayer''. Papal authority was Second Statute of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
