ANGLICAN WORSHIP
New Forms Agreed (N.Z.P A -Reuter—Copyright) LONDON, Feb. 19. The House of Lords last night agreed to legalise new forms of worship in the State Church of England for an experimental period of seven years. The Anglican Church had requested authority to depart from the 300-year-old prayer book to lessen the gaps between the ancient laws and current practice. The Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr. Michael Ramsey, the spiritual head of the Anglican Church, used the recent funeral service for Sir Winston Churchill at St. Paul’s Cathedral as an example to emphasise that many forms iof service, though familiar and widely welcome, were illegal.
He said it was a state funeral in a metropolitan church, but the form of service differed from what the 16th century Act of Uniformity prescribes.
This act, passed in the reign of Queen Elizabeth I, aimed at bringing unity into the services then used by quarrelling Roman Catholics and Protestants.
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Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30680, 20 February 1965, Page 15
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