established church

Noun

Meaning

the church that is recognized as the official church of a nation

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[T]here is no more formidable obstacle than the Established Church to the spirit of rash and theoretic change which we, almost alone among the nations, have escaped . Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury

The public school has become the established church of secular society. Ivan Illich

The concept of our established Church is occasionally misunderstood and, I believe, commonly under-appreciated. Its role is not to defend Anglicanism to the exclusion of other religions. Instead, the Church has a duty to protect the free practice of all faiths in this country. Elizabeth II

Fox in Nickalls, p.66 He campaigned against the paying of tithes, which funded the established church and often went into the pockets of absentee landlords or religious colleges far away from the paying parishioners. Source: Internet

As a cleric of the established church he had no plans to go further. Source: Internet

In England the established church is the Church of England ( Anglican ). Source: Internet

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