How to Use Anglican in a Sentence

Anglican

adjective
  • Hymns burst from the Anglican cathedral nearby, and a clamor of drums and bamboo flutes played outside the Hindu temple.
    Marcia Desanctis, Travel + Leisure, 14 July 2023
  • The shell landed in an ultrasound room, wrote the man who posted the video, an Anglican pastor who works for the diocese associated with the hospital.
    Imogen Piper, Washington Post, 26 Oct. 2023
  • Harris, who died in 2020, was the first woman consecrated as a bishop in the worldwide Anglican Communion.
    Bryan Marquard, BostonGlobe.com, 3 Sep. 2023
  • Being the first Muslim to hold the role required some negotiating, as part of the lord mayor’s job includes speaking regularly at the Abbey, an Anglican church.
    Saskia Solomon, New York Times, 23 June 2023
  • Today, a large community worships at the Anglican church.
    Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 Aug. 2023
  • Church officials said Sunak would be reading in his role as prime minister, during an Anglican service, so there should be no issue over his personal faith.
    Karla Adam, Washington Post, 5 May 2023
  • His mother, the daughter of an Anglican minister was not initially accepting of Page’s queerness.
    Barbara Vandenburgh, USA TODAY, 6 June 2023
  • Another child might have turned to religion, but with faithful Anglican Protestants on one side of the family and equally convinced Hindus on the other, I was never inducted into either faith, for fear of further alienating relatives.
    Matthew Gavin Frank, Harper's Magazine, 21 Nov. 2022
  • Unlike Roman Catholic or Anglican churches, which are governed by hierarchies and rules, many evangelical churches are run by independent preachers who have no oversight.
    Andrew Higgins, New York Times, 14 May 2023
  • In 1857 three stories about Anglican clergymen were published anonymously in Blackwood’s Magazine.
    Namwali Serpell, The New York Review of Books, 12 Oct. 2023
  • Conservative Anglican leaders said that their church, riven by disagreements over homosexuality, could no longer recognize England’s Archbishop of Canterbury as first among equals and called for an overhaul of how the global denomination is led.
    Francis X. Rocca, wsj.com, 21 Apr. 2023

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