Act of Supremacy
Overview page. Subjects: regional and national history — religion.
(1534 and 1559)
Enactments of the English Parliament, confirming respectively the supremacy of Henry VIII and Elizabeth I over the Anglican Church. Henry was styled “Supreme Head” of the Church but...
African Methodist Episcopal Church
Overview page. Subjects: history of the USA — religion.
The first church in the USA to be made up entirely of African-Americans. It came into being in 1787 when those with black skin refused to be segregated in the ...
Airgialla
Overview page. Subjects: religion — European history.
Meaning perhaps ‘the hostage‐givers’, is the name of a kingdom (or, more accurately, a federation of subkingdoms, independent of each other but conceding nominal suzerainty to an overking)...
Alexander Knox
Overview page. Subjects: European history — Christianity.
(1757–1831),
Church of Ireland layman and theologian. Largely self‐taught, Knox was much influenced in his early life by John Wesley, with whom his family was intimate. However, his theological...
ancestor worship
Overview page. Subjects: history of the Americas — biblical studies.
The real or supposed ancestors of the Hebrews were venerated and were felt to be so close that their descendants even continued to suffer for their sins (Exod. 20: 5). Not surprisingly it would seem...
Anglesey
Overview page. Subjects: religion — British history.
Island county of north‐west Wales, separated from the mainland by the Menai Straits. In 1974 it became the district of Ynys Môn in the county of Gwynedd, but was reconstituted as a county in 1996....
Anne Askew
Overview page. Subjects: Christianity — British history.
(1521–46),
Protestant martyr. In 1545 she was arrested on account of her beliefs about the Eucharist. She refused to recant or, even under torture, to incriminate leading Protestants at Court. She...
archdeacon
Overview page. Subjects: Christianity — British history.
Literally chiefs of the deacons. The office traces its origins to the New Testament church, where the ministry of Stephen and others is described in the Acts of the Apostles as their diaconia. As...
Armagh
Overview page. Subjects: religion — European history.
Was the smallest of the six countries of Northern Ireland. The chief town is Armagh which has been an archbishopric since the 12th cent.: there is also a Roman catholic archbishopric. The catholic...
Augustinian canons
Overview page. Subjects: regional and national history — Christianity.
(‘Regular’ or ‘Black’ canons) had their origin in the mid‐11th‐cent. ecclesiastical reform movement. Earlier communities of clerics (or ‘canons’) staffing cathedrals and large churches and organized...