Chantry of Alstin: Difference between revisions

[[File:Luckau Nikolaikirche Abendmahlsbild.jpg|thumb|left|200px|A depiction of a Chantric liturgy ca. 1630]]

Prior to [[1632]], the Chantry of Alstin occupied an unclear position within Alstinian society. Although nearly the entire population of the new country were adherents of the Chantry, it was not officially established as the state church of [[Alstin]]. The Chantry also remained organized on a mostly ad hoc basis as had been the case since the establishment of the church by refugees. King Julius I, in [[1632]], proclaimed the official status of the Chantric Church as the state church of Alstin, and convened the first official {{wp|synod|convocation}} of the Chantric Church in September of 1632. The practice of convocations had originated in the [[Anglei#The_Ænglish_Church|Ænglish Church]] and was reaffirmed at the Convocation of 1632. The Convocation itself gathered to create a new administrative and teaching structure for the Church, departing from the provisional basis from which the Church had been operating on since the late 16th century. The Convocation formally approved the King Richard Bible that had already been in use for a decade, reaffirmed the traditional Acts of Godwin and historic teaching of the Ænglish Church, and created a uniform system for the ordination of priests and the consecration of new bishops. The Convocation of 1632 proclaimed that the King of Alstin was the formal head of the Church (as had been the case with the Ænglish Church), but it controversially and narrowly approved a measure that would give the King of Alstin the right to appoint bishops, albeit with the advice of the Bishop of Alstin. The Convocation also formally elevated the Bishop of Alstin to Archbishop, making it {{wp|primus inter pares}} among Chantric bishops.

==Local practice==

[[File:St. Matthews Lutheran (Charleston, SC).jpg|thumb|right|200px|St. Phillip's in Jonston, a church of typical Chantric appearance.]]