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the Very Reverend Anthony Bridge Law Lord Lord Bridge of Harwich , gave up a career as an artist to become a Church of England priest ?
the Brighton Forum serviced office complex in Brighton , England, was used to train Anglican schoolmistresses before being requisitioned for the Royal Engineers ' wartime use?
the British politician Frederick William Verney Church of England clergyman who had been made a Commander of the Most Exalted Order of the White Elephant ?
when Francis Close Dean of Carlisle Cathedral in 1881, he was the oldest dean in the Church of England ?
the parish church of Thurning, Norfolk Corpus Christi College, Cambridge ?
the Church of England (Archbishop of Canterbury pictured) launched a Prayer for the Current Financial Situation God to be a "a tower of strength amidst the shifting sands" of the global economic turmoil ?
Church House Church of England ?
a bishop of the Church of England once won the World's Biggest Liar
the 1643 Westminster Assembly Parliament to restructure the Church of England and produced the Westminster Confession , which is the foundation of the Presbyterian Church ?
Church of England clergyman William Wayte British chess master in the late 1800s?
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Question 1 : ________ , this is the most local level, often consisting of one church building and community, although nowadays many parishes are joining forces in a variety of ways for financial reasons.
Question 2 : Where are the headquarters of Church of England?
Question 3 : In July 2005 the synod voted to "set in train" the process of allowing the consecration of women as ________ .
Question 4 : The parishes each elect lay (that is non-ordained) representatives to the deanery ________ .
Question 5 : The Church of England, although an ________ , does not receive any direct government support.
Question 6 : Under the leadership of the Archbishop of Canterbury, ________ , a more radical reformation proceeded.
Question 7 : Of the forty-four diocesan archbishops and bishops in the Church of England, only twenty-six are permitted to sit in the ________ .
Question 8 : The bishops will work with an elected body of lay and ________ representatives, known as the diocesan synod , to run the diocese.
Question 10 : By Continental standards, the level of violence over religion was not high, but the casualties included a king, Charles I, and an Archbishop of Canterbury, ________ .
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