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Church Assembly

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Definition of Church Assembly 

: the Church of England body for the governance of the church consisting of a house of clergy and a house of laity which since 1919 have together had the power to pass measures relating to the church for submission to Parliament for approval or rejection

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1919, in the meaning defined above

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