 Church of Ireland | |
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| Eaglais na hÉireann (Irish) Kirk o Airlann (Ulster Scots) | |
 Holmpatrick St Patrick Church in Skerries, County Dublin | |
| Classification | Christian |
| Orientation | Anglican |
| Scripture | Christian Bible |
| Theology | Anglican doctrine[a] |
| Polity | Episcopal |
| Primates | Archbishop of Armagh – John McDowell Archbishop of Dublin – Michael Jackson |
| Associations | |
| Region | Ireland |
| Language | English, Irish |
| Headquarters | Church of Ireland House Church Avenue Rathmines Dublin D06 CF67 Ireland |
| Independence | 1871 (disestablishment) |
| Separated from | Roman Catholic Church in 1536 |
| Branched from | Theologically: Church of England |
| Congregations | 1100 places of worship 450 parishes[1] |
| Members | 343,400[2] |
| Official website | ireland.anglican.org |
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The Church of Ireland (Irish: Eaglais na hÉireann, pronounced [ˈaɡlˠəʃ n̪ˠə ˈheːɾʲən̪ˠ]; Ulster-Scots: Kirk o Airlann, IPA: [kɪrk ə ˈerlən(d)])[3] is a Christian church in Ireland, and an autonomous province of the Anglican Communion. It is organised on an all-Ireland basis and is the second-largest Christian church on the island after the Roman Catholic Church. Like other Anglican churches, it has retained elements of pre-Reformation practice, notably its episcopal polity, while rejecting the primacy of the pope.
In theological and liturgical matters, it incorporates many principles of the Reformation, particularly those of the English Reformation, but self-identifies as being both Reformed and Catholic, in that it sees itself as the inheritor of a continuous tradition going back to the founding of Christianity in Ireland.[4] As with other members of the global Anglican communion, individual parishes accommodate differing approaches to the level of ritual and formality, variously referred to as High and Low Church.[5]
As of 2013, the Church of Ireland ranked "second in the State in terms of the provision of primary schools with 174 schools under its Patronage." There were "over 500 teachers and over 13,500 pupils in Church of Ireland Primary schools." There were at the time "twenty post-primary schools in the State which are either affiliated with the Church of Ireland at diocesan level or" are self-identified as Church of Ireland.[6]
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- ^ "Church of Ireland". Irish Council of Churches. Retrieved 17 March 2022.
- ^ "The Church of Ireland – About Us". ireland.anglican.org. The Church of Ireland. Retrieved 11 August 2023.
- ^ 2001 Northern Irish census leaflet, Ulster-Scots NI Statistics and Research Agency. Retrieved 25 September 2012.
- ^ ""About Us", Church of Ireland website". Archived from the original on 24 April 2012. Retrieved 1 May 2012.
- ^ Church of Ireland Archived 2 April 2015 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ https://www.ireland.anglican.org/cmsfiles/pdf/Information/Submissions/brd_ed/AdmSchBill2013.pdf.
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