What is Church of Ireland?
The '''Church of Ireland''' ({{lang-ga|Eaglais na hÉireann}}) is the [[Anglicanism|Anglican]] church in [[Ireland]]. It is an independent member of the [[Anglicanism|Anglican communion]]. During the [[kingdom of Ireland]] it was the [[state religion]]. It continued to be during the [[United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland]], when it became part of the [[Church of England]]. It was disestablished and separated from the Church of England in 1871 by the [[Parliament of the United Kingdom|British Parliament]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.ireland.anglican.org/|title=Church of Ireland - A Member of the Anglican Communion|website=www.ireland.anglican.org}}</ref> The seat of the Church of Ireland is at Saint Patrick's Cathedral in Armagh. Today the Church has roughly 390,000 members throughout Ireland, which makes it the second largest religious community in Ireland (after the [[Catholic Church]]) and the third largest in Northern Ireland (after the Catholic Church and the [[Presbyterian Church in Ireland]]). ==References== <references/> {{history-stub}} [[Category:Anglicanism]] [[Category:Organizations based in Ireland]]