1. Significance
The Book of Common Prayer is the church order of the Church of England (Anglicanism). It contains the services of daily Morning and Evening prayer, the Sunday Eucharist (or Lord’s Supper), baptism, ordination, and additional rites. Composed originally by Archbishop Thomas Cranmer in 1549, the prayer book together with the Book of Homilies (which he also composed) and the Articles of Religion (Thirty-Nine Articles) insured the Protestant character of the Reformation in England. The Boo…