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Broad Church is a term referring to Latitudinarian churchmanship in the Church of England, in particular, and Anglicanism, in general.

The term 'broad church' is sometimes used to refer to secular political organisations, meaning that they encompass a broad range of opinion.

After the terms High Church and Low Church came to distinguish the tendency toward Ritualism and Anglo-Catholicism on the one hand and Puritanism on the other, those Anglicans tolerant of multiple forms of conformity to ecclesiastical authority came to be referred to as "Broad." As the name implies, parishes associated with this variety of churchmanship will mix High and Low forms, reflective of the often eclectic liturgical and doctrinal preferences of clergy and laity. The emphasis is on allowing individual parishioners choice.

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High church, Low church, Churchmanship