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The Church of England repudiates the term Protestant, and, as far as I am aware, has never used it.

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I myself was brought up as an Anglican, and in the firm belief that I was a Protestant. An Anglican paper. The English Churchman is subtitled A Protestant Family Journal, The King of England is an Anglican, and in his coronation oath uses the words, “I solemnly and sincerely profess, etc., that I am a faithful Protestant.”

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