high church in English

noun
1
the principles or adherents of High Church tradition.
By the middle of the 17th century, Charles I had brought back the High Church doctrine, and so the Anglican church was split between the Low Church, the Calvinists, and the High Church .
adjective
1
of or adhering to a tradition within the Anglican Church emphasizing ritual, priestly authority, sacraments, and historical continuity with Catholic Christianity.
The audience ranged from High Church Anglo-Catholics to low church Evangelical Anglicans.

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1. The Bigotry of his High Church subjects was too strong for him

2. He loves all the high church traditions?incense and processions and vestments.

3. The Bishop takes an old-fashioned high church view on divorced clergy.

4. Arhat is a spiritual figure inside the structure of The High Church of Messiah-as-Emperox Meaning 'Enlightened One' the High Church declares figures to have embodied the Ten Virtues, performing acts and miracles in service to God

5. Marian devotions such as the Rosary, Angelus, and Regina Coeli are most commonly associated with the Anglo-Catholic and High Church movements within Anglicanism.

6. He supported high church Anglican ecclesiastics, such as Richard Montagu and William Laud, and failed to aid Protestant forces successfully during the Thirty Years' War.