Anglo-Catholicism

 
Pronunciation: /aŋɡləʊkəˈθɒlɪsɪzəm/

noun

[mass noun]
  • a tradition within the Anglican Church which is close to Catholicism in its doctrine and worship and is broadly identified with High Church Anglicanism. As a movement, Anglo-Catholicism grew out of the Oxford Movement of the 1830s and 1840s.