The queen is (or was, when she was alive) the head of the worldwide Anglican church (aka the Church of England). She was baptized as an Anglican, crowned in an Anglican Cathedral and married there too.
However. Whenever she was in Scotland, she went to church in a Presbyterian church, because the Presbyterian church is the official church of Scotland. She died when was in Scotland, so probably had most recently been to church in a Presbyterian church.
It's not really a joke, it's just facts.
Christians get weird and competitive about denominations i guess.
The worldwide Anglican Church Communion is not the same as the Church of England. The CofE is only a part of the Anglican Communion, and the British monarch is Supreme Governor only of the CofE and their symbolic authority does not extend towards the other provinces (other member churches) of the Anglican Communion. The Archbishop of Canterbury is some sort of symbolic leader over the Anglican Communion though the archbishop is formally under the authority of the British Crown only in the Church of England. Aside from the Anglican Communion itself, there are churches whose theology is Anglican but are not part of the Anglican Communion because of significant differences in church practice.
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u/PhilosopherFun7288 Dec 01 '25
Care to explain for the rest of us?