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The Church of England Newspaper is an independent Anglican weekly newspaper. It is published in the United Kingdom
United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...

 on Fridays.

The Church of England Newspaper was founded in 1828 and is notable as the earliest Church paper, and one of the oldest newspapers still in circulation. It is independent of the Church of England
Church of England
The Church of England is the officially established Christian church in England and the Mother Church of the worldwide Anglican Communion. The church considers itself within the tradition of Western Christianity and dates its formal establishment principally to the mission to England by St...

 hierarchy. It normally adopts a conservative evangelical stance.

The paper was owned by Conservative politician John Cordle
John Cordle
John Howard Cordle was a British Conservative Party politician.Cordle, the son of Ernest William Cordle, was educated at the City of London School and became managing director of E. W. Cordle and Son Ltd. in 1946. He was also a member of Lloyd's of London...

MP from 1960 (and possibly from 1946 - see (http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/WORLD-OBITS/2007-01/1170288493) and 1971 (Announcements, The Daily Telegraph, London, U.K., 24 November 2004).
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