`  :As I posted above many months ago in the ``Anglican and Protestant`` part of this page, what sense of ``Protestant?`` Anglicanism is too complex and too varied to say we are ``Protestant`` and that's that. Henry VIII was a staunch Catholic. Edward VI's reign brought in a Protestant flavor, which was tempered by Elizabeth and James I, which was made more Catholic again by Charles I, and staid Catholic after the Restoration. Much of this rebirth in the Catholicity of Anglicanism survived the Glorious Revolution, which is witnessed in the Oxford Movement and the widespread then-Anglo-Catholicism in the EUCSA after American independence. In addition, with all due respect, your denomination's ``episcopalian`` structure is not the same as the Anglican. The article you linked to says that specifically. Your understanding of the Eucharist is also different from the historic Anglican understanding as well.  :Our theology is contrary to much of classical Protestant thought. Every single honest religious scholar will tell you that it is not possible to truly classify Anglicans anywhere really. The NRSV Bible, in the ``To The Reader, signifies this by mentioning Anglicanism as seperate from Protestantism (pg xxv in the HarperCollins Study Bible w/Deuterocanon). To place it solely as Protestant is POV. To place it as non-Protestant without a comment that many do think it Protestant is also POV.   `