ANGLICAN CHURCH AND GOVERNMENT IN ENGLAND: HISTORY AND MODERNITY

Abstract

The article analyzes the relationships between the Anglican Church and the government in England in the period of the formation of Anglicanism after the separation from the Vatican in the XVI century. The Anglican Church has the status of a state church. Its leadership is concentrated both in the hands of the King of England and the Archbishop of Canterbury. The Anglican Church has its offices in countries that used to be part of the colonial system of England. The article discusses the international contacts of Anglican adherents with the Russian Orthodox Church in the XVI XIX centuries.