high-church
Emphasizing elaborate ritual
High-church describes a style of Christian worship, especially Anglican, that emphasizes ritual, ceremony, and traditional liturgical practices—elaborate vestments, incense, formal prayers, and sacramental theology closer to Roman Catholicism.
The term contrasts with low-church, which favors simpler services and less ceremonial worship: a high-church Episcopal parish, high-church sensibilities.
U.S. Anglican denomination
- Anglo-CatholicAnglican emphasizing Catholic tradition
- liturgicalOf public worship rites
- sacramentalOf sacred rites
- cathedralBishop's principal church
bishop · Book of Common Prayer · Oxford Movement · ecclesiology · prelate · diocese · parish · vicar
Sacramental bread and wine
- vestmentsCeremonial religious attire
- incenseAnger greatly, or aromatic resin
- altarSacred ritual table
- processionFormal moving line
chalice · paten · chasuble · stole · censer · missal · lectionary · rubrics
Episcopal
U.S. Anglican denomination
- Anglo-CatholicAnglican emphasizing Catholic tradition
- liturgicalOf public worship rites
- sacramentalOf sacred rites
cathedral · bishop · Book of Common Prayer · Oxford Movement · ecclesiology · prelate · diocese · parish · vicar · rector
Eucharist
Sacramental bread and wine
procession · chalice · paten · chasuble · stole · censer · missal · lectionary · rubrics · genuflection
apostolic
Of the first disciples
- sacramentSacred ritual conveying grace
- orthodoxyAdherence to accepted beliefs
- catholicityBroad-minded inclusiveness
creed · doctrine · councils · ritual · ceremony · formality · reverence · solemnity · sacred · holy orders
matins
Liturgical dawn devotions
Gregorian chant · psalmody · hymnody · canticles · magnificat · antiphon · doxology · choir · precentor · cantor
high-churchlow-church
Anti-ritualistic Anglican tendency
plain · unadorned · austere · stripped-down · simple
high-churchlow-church
Anti-ritualistic Anglican tendency
evangelical · Puritan · Calvinist · Protestant · nonconformist
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