Common Worship
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Common Worship is a series of liturgical books authorised by the General Synod of the Church of England and launched on the first Sunday of Advent in 2000. It represents the most recent stage of devel
Three Common Worship liturgy books. From left to right they are Daily Prayer (red), Pastoral Services (green) and the Main Volume (black).
The Church of England's Common Worship series
Book of Common Prayer (1662)
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The 1662 Book of Common Prayer is an authorised liturgical book of the Church of England and other Anglican bodies around the world. In continuous print and regular use for over 360 years, the 1662 pr
Common Worship
…the Liturgical Movement within the Church and is the successor to the Alternative Service Book (ASB) of 1980. Like the ASB, it is an alternative to the 1662 Book of Common Prayer (BCP), which officially remains the normative liturgy of the Church of England. It has been published as a series of books, rather than a single volume…
Cover page to the 1662 Book of Common Prayer, as printed by John Baskerville for Cambridge in 1762
Compilers of the first Book of Common Prayer, including Cranmer
John Cosin, prominent Laudian during the Savoy Conference and notator of the Durham Book
King William III and Queen Mary II, the Calvinist monarchs who replaced James II during the Glorious Revolution