Church of Ireland

Church of Ireland
Eaglais na hÉireann (Irish) Kirk o Airlann (Ulster Scots)
Holmpatrick St Patrick Church in Skerries, County Dublin
Classification	Christian
Orientation	Anglican
Scripture	Christian Bible
Theology	Anglican doctrine[a]
Polity	Episcopal
Primates	Archbishop of Armagh – John McDowell Archbishop of Dublin – Michael Jackson
Associations	Anglican Communion Conference of European Churches Churches Together in Britain and Ireland Irish Council of Churches Porvoo Communion
Region	Ireland
Language	English, Irish
Headquarters	Church of Ireland House Church Avenue Rathmines Dublin D06 CF67 Ireland
Independence	1871 (disestablishment)
Separated from	Roman Catholic Church in 1536
Branched from	Theologically: Church of England
Congregations	1100 places of worship 450 parishes[1]
Members	343,400[2]
Official website	ireland.anglican.org

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The Church of Ireland (Irish: Eaglais na hÉireann, pronounced [ˈaɡlˠəʃ n̪ˠə ˈheːɾʲən̪ˠ]; Ulster-Scots: Kirk o Airlann, IPA: [kɪrk ə ˈerlən(d)])^[3] is a Christian church in Ireland, and an autonomous province of the Anglican Communion. It is organised on an all-Ireland basis and is the second-largest Christian church on the island after the Roman Catholic Church. Like other Anglican churches, it has retained elements of pre-Reformation practice, notably its episcopal polity, while rejecting the primacy of the pope.

In theological and liturgical matters, it incorporates many principles of the Reformation, particularly those of the English Reformation, but self-identifies as being both Reformed and Catholic, in that it sees itself as the inheritor of a continuous tradition going back to the founding of Christianity in Ireland.^[4] As with other members of the global Anglican communion, individual parishes accommodate differing approaches to the level of ritual and formality, variously referred to as High and Low Church.^[5]

As of 2013, the Church of Ireland ranked "second in the State in terms of the provision of primary schools with 174 schools under its Patronage." There were "over 500 teachers and over 13,500 pupils in Church of Ireland Primary schools." There were at the time "twenty post-primary schools in the State which are either affiliated with the Church of Ireland at diocesan level or" are self-identified as Church of Ireland.^[6]

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