I always thought Anglicanism is the English version of the Roman Catholic Church. Could be wrong but seem to remember that from my church history classes.
Every Christian sect claims to honor apostolic succession.
Anglicanism came about because of Henry the VIII wanting a divorce that the Roman church wouldn't grant him. However, the early leaders of the movement were very Protestant.
Some of us see it that way. We have three "wings": liberal, evangelical and Anglo-Catholic. The last is the closest to the Roman Catholic church but to be honest they seem pretty thin on the ground. Evangelical Anglicans are definitely dominant in my experience.
And concerning the opinions expressed above: i have been involved in various denominations, including the Methodists, Baptists and the house church movement as well as the Free Church movement, and i can tell you for sure that all the C of E churches I've known since i was an adult are most definitely evangelical protestant and a long, long way from the Roman Catholics. Many of us don't even see the Catholics as Christian at all.
Anglicans are protestants. Although the Anglican church diverged directly from the Catholic church, and not from Lutheranism or some other protestant branch. They split from the Catholic church during the protestant reformation.
The Anglican church is the church of England. The head of that church is the ruler of England. It was started by Henry VIII as a protestant denomination, away from papal control of the roman catholic church.
Henry wanted to divorce Catherine of Aragorn (aunt of the then Holy Roman Emperor). The pope would not grant the annulment, so Henry established the church of England.
Well, Henry the Eighth could not get a divorce from his wife, The Pope would not grant one so he said "Bugger it" I'll form my own church" so he did and he sacked the monasteries and stole all their land and wealth, ---- and made himself head of the Anglican Church.
The rest is history!
I would say that the Church of England is more related to Protestantism although they claim succession from Catholicism as well. The more well-known points of Catholicism such as celibate priests, nuns or confessional booths don't appear in the C of E, and it's not under the authority of the Vatican.
Protestantism and it follows apostolic succession as each priest is ordained by a Bishop who has been ordained by a Bishop dating back to the time when there was no Anglican Church
Anglicanism is basically a protestant version of Catholicism, but without the gaudy decor or the worship of Mary. The Anglican church was formed as a schism from the Catholic church by order of Henry VIII because the Pope wouldn't agree to him divorcing one of his wives, so there is not even a mention of Apostolic succession, nor is it considered relevant outside Catholicism.
Generally, most Christian scholars consider Anglicanism to be closer in practice to the doctrines of Christianity than Catholicism. Viewed politically, Catholicism is on the extreme right-wing of Christianity with Anglicanism closer to the mainstream, though itself still extremely right-wing. Since the Reformation there have been many "free" church denominations established, each claiming to be closer to Biblical Christianity than the previously established denominations and each appearing to be more radically left wing than its predecessors. Most appear to have originated from a move of God which left its adherents at odds with previously established church denominations and they have been made unwelcome and even persecuted by their predecessors. The current move is generally described as the Charismatic movement & appears to have its roots in the spreading teaching of the Pentecostal churches from the early 20Th century onwards. However this has spread into the older denominations and has even found a welcome in a reviving Catholic church. In general, such moves of God have completely cut through most religious traditions and they have fallen by the wayside, maintained as important only by those ultra-traditionalists who are so right wing as to put themselves outside Christianity altogether, having a form of religion, but nothing of God. The Bible tells us to have nothing to do with such people.
It's a long explanation, but it appears that apostolic succession has gone with this. As the Apostles realized in the home of Cornelius, religious tradition has to be ditched when God shows his will by the moving of the Holy Spirit. This has been the constant factor ever since the days of the Apostles, thus in fact, though not in tradition, true Apostolic succession is marked by evidence of the moving of the Holy Spirit. Ironically, this is now returning to Catholicism and coming into Anglicanism through the Charismatic movement and not through any list of appointed successors (essentially a genealogy, which St Paul warns us to avoid arguments over).
I hope that answers your question.
When Henry VIII split from Rome he did not cease to be a catholic so the Anglican church he was now head of was and still is a catholic church although the practise varies in different churches so we say that some churches are higher that others.
I'm Anglican and I think we're more Protestant. We have Protestant beliefs but Catholic rituals. But it depends on the church... Some are more Catholic and other more Protestant.
Is Anglicanism more closely related to Catholism or Protestantism?
