The Term ‘Anglican’ is Not a Registered Trademark
September 13, 2012 3 Comments
Via Anglican Samizdat:
The Anglican Network in Canada church, St. George’s, is planning on a new building in Burlington.
From the Burlington Post:
The city’s planning and building department recommended that a 0.6 hectare piece of employment land at 4691 Palladium Way be rezoned to allow the construction of a place of worship.
The Post has learned it will be an Anglican church.
The site is located just west of Appleby Line, bordering Hwy. 407, in Alton.
Community development committee approved the recommendation.
It will go before council on Sept. 4.
Permission for the rezoning was granted at the September 4th meeting.
Notice that the Burlington Post reported that the new building will be for an Anglican Church. This does not sit well with the Diocese of Niagara, a self-proclaimed inclusive and affirming diocese. A number of its clergy lament that the word Anglican is not a registered trademark, so, much as they would like to, they don’t have exclusive – and I do apologise for my blatant and unfeeling use of the “e” word – use of it in the Niagara region.
From here:
We want to clarify the new church is being proposed by the Anglican Network in Canada, a group that broke away from the Anglican Church of Canada in 2009 to protest our actions in favour of the full inclusion of homosexual persons and the affirmation of their committed relationships.
The six existing Anglican churches serving Burlington are all part of the Anglican Church of Canada. We are diverse, vibrant faith communities focused on welcoming all and making a positive difference in Burlington.
We know some of our parishioners were confused by the article.
The term “Anglican” is not a registered trademark and its usage is not restricted. Nonetheless, we hope future reporting of this story can make a distinction between the two groups.
Stephen Hopkins, St. Christopher’s Anglican Church
Stuart Pike, St. Luke’s Anglican Church (Ontario Street)
Derek Anderson, St. Matthew’s Anglican Church
Bahman Kalantari, St. John’s Anglican Church
Jeff and Sue Ann Ward, St. Luke’s Anglican Church (Dundas Street/Bronte Road)
Jean Archbell, St. Elizabeth’s Anglican Church
About Fr Stephen Smuts
Well, at least the Anglicans of the original Anglican Church of Canada will now have some understanding of how Catholics feel when Anglicans claim to be Catholics – unfortunately, that’s not a registered trademark either.
Plus the fact, the word Anglican derives from Anglicana..the Catholic Church in England was called the Eccleisa Anglicana in docmentsbefore the Reformation..justr as the Catholioc Church in France was referred to as the Ecclesia Gallicana
In the nineteenth century the Church of Ireland bishops objected to the name Anglican Communion and wanted Reformed or Protestant Episcopal Communion instead.
As many will know St Greogory (still a monk, later Pope) was walking in the slave market in Rome where he saw some fair-haired blue-eyed boys exposed for sale. On being told they were Angles, he quipped, “Non Angli sed Angeli forent, si essent Christiani” (They would be Angels not Angles if they were Christians). He asked where they came from and was told “Deira” (Northumbria). The response of St Gregory was another pun “De Ira Dei sunt deliberandi” (“From the wrath of God they are to be saved”) and when the monk became Pope he sent his fellow monk, St Augustine of Canterbury to convert the English.
The CofE is prone to mistranslate the Latin as “Not Angles but Anglicans”.