Book of Common Prayer facts for kids
The Book of Common Prayer is an old Anglican prayer book.
The book was first published in 1549 during the reign of Edward VI of England. It was the first prayer book to contain the forms of service for daily and Sunday worship in English and to do so within a single volume.
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A 1760 printing of the 1662 Book of Common Prayer, printed by John Baskerville
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Thomas Cranmer (1489–1556), editor and co-author of the first and second Books of Common Prayer
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Cranmer's prayer book of 1552
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Prayer book of 1559
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Laud's abortive 1637 Prayer book.
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Title page of the 1662 Prayer Book
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A Collect for 5 November in the Book of Common Prayer published in London in 1689, referring to the Gunpowder Plot and the arrival of William III.
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Edward Bouverie Pusey, a leader of the Oxford Movement.
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A collection of various editions of the Book of Common Prayer, derivatives, and associated liturgical texts from within the Anglican Communion, Catholic Church, and Western Rite Orthodoxy.
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Philippine Book of Common Prayer in the Church of Saint Mary, Sagada, Mountain Province, Philippines.
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The diglotic English–Chinese Book of Common Prayer used by the Filipino–Chinese community of St Stephen's Pro-Cathedral in Manila, Philippines.
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The 1878 prayer book for the use of the Church of Ireland.
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The Revised Prayer-Book of the Reformed Spanish Church, English translation of the 1889 revised Prayer Book used in the Spanish Reformed Episcopal Church.
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The first Book of Common Prayer in Welsh published in 1567
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The 1979 Book of Common Prayer
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Anglo-Catholic Anglican Service Book (1991), a traditional-language version of the Episcopal Book of Common Prayer
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See also
In Spanish: Libro de Oración Común para niños
