Church of England in the Colony of Virginia

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The Church of England in the Colony of Virginia was the established Anglican church that shaped the religious, social, and political life of colonial Virginia until the American Revolution.

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Observed surface forms (1)

Surface form Occurrences
Anglican parishes of colonial Virginia 1

Statements (53)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Anglican church
established church
religious institution
appliesToJurisdiction Colony of Virginia NERFINISHED
associatedWith Virginia gentry
planter elite of Virginia
churchPolity episcopal polity
country Kingdom of Great Britain
denomination Anglicanism
dissolvedBy Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom NERFINISHED
disestablishment acts of the Virginia General Assembly
doctrine Thirty-Nine Articles NERFINISHED
endTime 1786
establishedBy English Crown NERFINISHED
House of Burgesses NERFINISHED
fundingMechanism parish levies
public taxation
tithes in tobacco
governingBody colonial legislature of Virginia
parish vestry
hadJurisdictionOver glebe lands
maintenance of parish churches
parish poor relief
parishes in Virginia
hasClergyTitle minister
parson
rector
hasLayOffice churchwarden
vestryman
hasPriesthoodType ordained clergy
historicalPeriod colonial America NERFINISHED
pre-Revolutionary Virginia
influenced education in colonial Virginia
moral regulation in colonial Virginia
political culture in colonial Virginia
social hierarchy in colonial Virginia
legalStatus established religion
state church
liturgy Book of Common Prayer NERFINISHED
mainClassification Protestantism
parentOrganization Church of England NERFINISHED
partOf Anglican Communion (historical precursor) NERFINISHED
primaryLanguage English
region Chesapeake colonies NERFINISHED
religion Christianity
significantEvent Parson's Cause NERFINISHED
Two Penny Act controversy NERFINISHED
creation of parishes in early 17th century Virginia
disestablishment after the American Revolution
support by colonial taxation laws
startTime 1619
successor Protestant Episcopal Church in Virginia NERFINISHED
theology Reformed

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Episcopal Diocese of Virginia predecessor Church of England in the Colony of Virginia
Stafford County, Colony of Virginia partOf Church of England in the Colony of Virginia
this entity surface form: Anglican parishes of colonial Virginia