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- ...that May crowning, when an image or likeness of the Blessed Virgin Mary is ceremonially crowned to signify her as Queen of Heaven and the Mother of God, is practiced by some Anglo Catholic Anglicans?
- ...that Graham Charles Chadwick was an Anglican missionary and bishop whose anti-apartheid activities saw him expelled from South Africa in 1982?
- ...that Kenneth John Woollcombe was mentioned as a possible archbishop of Canterbury after the death of Michael Ramsey?
- ...that when the Priestley Riots took place in 1791 in Birmingham, England, their main targets were religious Dissenters?
- ...that Emma Crawford became the mother superior of the Society of the Sacred Advent and developed a school for troubled girls in Brisbane?
- ...that by the end of the nineteenth century, roughly three of every four Australian overseas missionaries were women who Eliza Marsden Hassall had helped recruit and train?
- ...that William Edington was a 14th century English archbishop and chancellor who founded Edington Priory, the church of which still stands today?
- ...that The Towers of Trebizond was a novel that featured a character who proposed to emancipate the women of Turkey by converting them to Anglicanism?
- ...that Sydney James Kirkby was the first executive officer of the Bush Church Aid Society for Australia and Tasmania?
- ...that the medieval cathedrals of England, dating from between approximately 1040 and 1540, are a group of twenty-five buildings which together constitute a major aspect of the country’s artistic heritage and are the among the most significant material symbols of Christianity?
- ...that Anglican clergyman Chad Varah founded the Samaritans, the world's first crisis hotline, in 1953, at a time when he was also writing for the Eagle comic?
- ...that when John Horden sent his Cree language translation of the Bible back to England, the printers returned it with a printing press but no instructions on how to operate it?
- ...that the All Saints Church in Henley Brook is the oldest church in Western Australia?
- ...that Old St Paul's Cathedral was completely gutted in the Great Fire of London of 1666, which destroyed the roof and much of the stonework?
- ...that many of the leaders of the Oxford Movement, including Edward Bouverie Pusey, Henry Parry Liddon, John Mason Neale, Charles Fuge Lowder and Edward King preached at St Thomas' Church, Oxford?
- ...that Saint Paul's Episcopal Church is an historic church in Norfolk, Virginia. Built in 1739, it is the sole colonial-era building which survived the various wars that Norfolk has witnessed?
- ...that Edmund Thomas Blacket was an Australian architect, best known for his designs for the University of Sydney, St. Andrew's Cathedral, Sydney, and St. Saviour's Cathedral, Goulburn?
- ...that St George’s Cathedral occupies an important place in the history of Christianity in India, as the Church of South India was inaugurated there on 27 September 1947?
- ...that the Church of St James the Great, Haydock, Merseyside was built with timber framing because its flexibility would provide greater protection against possible mining subsidence?
- ...that Chester Cathedral, the mother church of the Diocese of Chester, is dedicated to Christ and the Blessed Virgin Mary?
- ...that William Mitchell was a Church of England priest who was the first ordained person to provide religious services in the Swan Valley area of the Swan River Colony?
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